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Proof indeed that Tom and Jo’s recipe for their ice creams is also one for success: fresh whole milk from his brother’s cows, produced on the family-run farm in Holsworthy, clotted and double cream from local dairies and only using ingredients, including flavourings and colours, all of the highest quality and natural. Well apart from the Bubble Gum flavour. ‘Out of all the different flavours we do that’s the only one - we have not been able to find a natural blue colouring,” sighs Jo. “We are still looking and are really keen to find it.” Awards, sought-after tastes, an ever-increasing customer base and an enviable reputation as one of the best ice cream makers in the region - it’s all a far cry from when Tom and Jo bought an existing small ice cream dairy back in October 1999. “It was on a farm where Tom used to work, but he was doing long hours for someone else and thought it would be nice to work for himself,” she remembers. “We had two small children but he didn’t get to see them very often so we bought the business, moved it to our farm and have been making ice cream ever since.” They started out with 17 customers and zero experience of making ice cream but through a process of trial and error, willingness to try different things and natural progression, built it into the successful award-winning company it is today. “We didn’t go into it just to win awards,” adds Jo. “We just reached a point when we thought ‘we’ve got certain standards here now’ and entered a competition to just see how we’d get on. But winning prizes is quite exciting!”
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