Town #3 Ashford (visit #2)

Friday, March 27, 2009
The Concrete Factory

On our way home from Killingly we got sidetracked in Ashford (at the junction of Rts. 44 & 74), at the Harvest Garden and the Concrete Factory, an ice cream shop. We’d been there before for cider and produce, but not for the “Fresh Old Fashioned Ice Cream.” Today was their first day open for the season and they were still stocking the shelves with Amish-made jams and sauces.

They make frozen custard ice cream fresh, daily. (It was good, but we still prefer traditional ice cream.) OK, so what is Concrete? They claim that frozen custard is a French gourmet ice cream that has 10-20% overrun or air whipped into the ice cream (where traditional ice cream has 50-100% overrun). “High overrun will cause a light and fluffy texture, where a lower overrun will equate to a richer and denser texture.” And they claim “Concretes are blended so thick that they and their spoon do not fall out when their cup is turned upside-down.”