Today, Monday 29th March, we went to the Waihola Store to talk to the storekeeper about Milk and Ice Cream because we are learning about milk and milk products.

We asked her what was the most popular milk and she told us it was the dark blue top milk.

We looked at the ice cream flavours you could choose for cone ice creams. We learnt that the most popular flavour for the last five years was Boysenberry. Vanilla had the top ranking for Tip Top flavours in 2017. But at the Waihola Store the flavour that sells the 

most is cookies and cream and the second is goodygoody gumdrops.

Slushies are the popular kids freezer packet ice treat.

We bought some blue top milk and the store keeper gave us some yellow top milk and some cream.

We got an icecream each.

Maddy got a scoop of cookies and cream and a scoop of  gold rush. It tasted great.

Ryker got a scoop of cookies and cream and a scoop of  orange chocolate chip. It was so yum.

Delrio got a scoop of caramel fudge and a scoop of chocolate. The ice cream tasted great.

We stopped at Blair’s coffee cart at Taieri Mouth to buy some Windy Ridge milk to use as well.

Back at school we used some of the milk to try and make our own ice cream.

We put some ice and salt in a big zip lock plastic bag.

We placed that bag in an ice cream container in case it spilt.

We got a little zip top bag and put some milk in it. Any type should work.

We put in some sugar, vanilla essence and food colouring and closed the bag. Then we put the small bag into the big bag with all the ice and closed it. 

We shook the big bag for 5-10 minutes and our hands got very cold so we got some tea towels and wrapped them around the icy bag.

When it was thicker we took it out and put it into the Tip Top tub, the storekeeper gave us.

Then we ATE the icecream and it was DELICIOUS. 

Our next job is to find out why the milk has different coloured tops and how the milk from Windy Ridge is also different.

Ryker, Maddy, Delrio.