The service, like at House of Flavors, was friendly when we visited, and the shop was busy dispensing treats. Stools at the counter and a few tables inside and outside seat customers. Historic photos from those days line the walls.
The interior of the shop is reminiscent of ice cream/soda fountains of an earlier era. You could call their ice cream making “small batch.” They were founded in 1942 at the present-day location. Jones Homemade Ice Cream shop is a much smaller operation than House of Flavors, though similar in age. She tends to favor plain ol’ Chocolate while I took a chance on Blue Moon. This trip, I brought my navigator Jean along so we could try two flavors. On to Jones Homemade Ice Cream at 858 Michigan Avenue in Baldwin.
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While the ice cream is definitely worth trying, the price was a little more than I expected at $4 for a single dip plus an extra buck for the waffle cone, but then this isn’t the 1960s when my ice cream cone cost less than a dollar. The ice cream itself was smooth and sweet with the waffle cone adding a little extra sweetness. I felt like a little kid again and loved it. Sitting on a bench outside, under the hot sun, I found it didn’t take long before the ice cream dripped down the side of the cone and onto my fingers. Rather than eat inside, I went through an indoor take-out line, where huge cartons of ice cream in flavors such as Blackberry Dark Chocolate Chunk, Caramel Caribou and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough were lined up in front of me and waiting to be scooped. I ordered a single dip, which was a REALLY BIG single dip, of cherry ice cream with big chunks of black cherries packed into a waffle cone. Super Dooper Pig’s Dinner (note trough and banana pig’s ears) is served at Ludington’s House of Flavors. I remember sugar cones and regular cones, but I don’t remember having a waffle cone.
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But how to eat it? A cup? A cone? A sundae? I noticed they offer waffle cones. I haven’t tried their meals, but my editor says they make a “mean” cherry chicken salad and the restaurant gets high marks on Tripadvisor.Īs a child, I really liked cherry ice cream, and lo and behold, there it was on the menu: Black Sweet Cherry ice cream. The Neal family still runs the restaurant/ice cream shop. To be more precise, 28 million gallons per year, making them Michigan’s largest ice cream producer, so sayeth the facility’s website. Today, millions of gallons of ice cream are made in the adjoining manufacturing facility. In 1948, Bob Neal purchased a 50% interest in the dairy, and after a couple name changes, House of Flavors was born in 1964. The House of Flavors, 402 West Ludington Ave., began as Miller Dairy, producing milk, cottage cheese, buttermilk and ice cream, according to a statement on the company’s website. But on rare occasions I still imbibe, and this little foray back into ice-cream land sounded like fun. All offer other food options as well as ice cream.įirst, a disclaimer: my appetite for ice cream has diminished since my youth when I was an ice cream hound.
She volunteered to write about the others. Since I’m a Mason County resident and live reasonably close to two of the four, my editor suggested I try a taste at the first two shops. In Mason, Lake, Benzie and Manistee counties, you’ll find delicious choices for the locally made kind: House of Flavors in Ludington, Jones Homemade Ice Cream in Baldwin, Hill Top Soda Shoppe in Benzonia, and Bear Claw Café in Copemish. What better way to cool off on a hot sunny day ⸺ shy of a dip in the big lake, of course ⸺ than eating a scoop or two of ice cream? And what could be better than locally made ice cream? (See ) We added Bear Claw here, to our online story. Writer Stewart McFerran discovered the café and its home-cooked meals last fall. Editor’s note: After our story went to press last week, we remembered another local establishment that makes its own ice cream: Bear Claw Café in Copemish.
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