Cornish ice cream
2nd August 2015
Jelberts in Newlyn might be the most unassuming ice-cream shop in the world, but it certainly takes the scoop.
Although the queue snaking out of the door might give the game away, drive along the promenade from Penzance into the small fishing village of Newlyn and you could easily pass an unremarkable shop to your right-hand side.
Jelberts is one of the oldest-ice cream makers in the county, with only one shop here in Newlyn. Yes it’s a bold claim, but this plain old shop makes the best ice cream in the world.
According to my friend’s old Cornish granny, Jelberts started out as a sweet extension of a local dairy farmer who used to cart the drums of home-made ice cream down the road by pram each day. His grandson Jimmy still runs the shop today.
The recipe is a closely guarded secret but we’re certain it’s the simplicity of milk, cream, and not much else, that makes the deliciously dense, creamy vanilla flavour.
To this day, Jelberts still only produces enough ice-cream to last through the day. So once it’s gone, it’s gone.
There is only one flavour. And there are only six simple options holding you back from the best ice cream in the world. Small or large? Cone or tub? Clotted cream and flake?
Well I never…
Glance around the shop when you are standing in the queue and you won’t fail to notice a rower’s ore mounted to the wall.
Look closer and you’ll see it’s the one used by Olympic gold medal winners Helen Glover and Heather Stanning who stormed to victory in the Women’s Pair in the London 2012 Olympic Games. It’s Helen’s Dad Jimmy who runs the family-owned business. Thus proving that ice cream leads to great things.
Jelberts is a 20 minute drive from our properties in Sennen Cove.
