Drive through ice cream at Daisy Made

Drive through ice cream is a strange experience but one that has been very successful in Skellingthorpe.

Matt Scarborough now runs the small family business, Daisy Made. “I can’t remember the exact year it started because I wasn’t very old” says Matt.

“It’s been here quite while, must be 18 or 19 years now. My parents opened the business, and when me and my brother got a little bit older my Mum deciced to start making ice cream. We started in a little wooden hut which then became a garden shed as we expanded to sort of this that were in now so it’s grown fairly well.”

The staff at Daisy Made use the milk from their own herd to make the ice cream but sadly have to get the flavourings in from outside the county. Local produce is important in Matt’s eyes though: “it’s a very agricultural county so without promoting Lincolnshire produce I think the county would suffer.”

For Matt and his family ice cream was obviously the next step to take from owning a dairy herd. “We’ve always had the farm here so we’ve always had the dairy herd. It’s the fact that we already had the dairy herd that made the ice cream a sort of logical option and sort of a new direction to go in than what we already had.”

Daisy Made offers a great family experience with not only a rainbow of soft ice cream but also goats, rabbits and guinea pigs to pet.

The rum and raisin ice cream was deliciously soft with huge fat juicy raisins. The rum flavouring was just right and the plentiful raisins added texture. The one complaint? I wanted more!