Our bracket is complete!
On our Sunday drive we enjoyed the countryside in the town of Sharon in the far northwest corner of Connecticut. Sharon is a rural town rich in farm land but not a lot of commerce and I suspect the locals wouldn’t change a thing.
We ended up in the Sharon Farm Market which is surprisingly large and diverse for a rural community. I even found a jar of the spice Garam Masala I have been looking for. I found a wide variety of various ice cream products from Hood, Turkey Hill, and Friendly’s to Arethusa and Ben & Jerry’s. But what caught our eye was a pint of ginger ice cream from a company called SoCo Ice Cream from Great Barrington, Massachusetts. SoCo uses dairy products from a farm in southern Vermont and most of their ingredients are either grown locally or baked on site in their creamery in Great Barrington.
The ginger ice cream was in a pint and once we found some spoons we dove in. SoCo’s ginger ice cream has a very light, smooth taste not the least bit overwhelming as some ginger products can be. In fact it has such a faint ginger taste it’s hard to recognize unless you really think about it. SoCo offers a wide range of exotic and somewhat standard products. They also have a shop in Great Barrington I would love to check out some day.
Sharon was the last town we had to visit to complete the four corners of Connecticut or our bracket. Over the rest of the year we hope to find some new creameries and continue to fill in our bracket.
The Connecticut Ice Cream Quest 