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The journal
Notes from the churn room
Nobody here is a writer. These are the things we had to learn the hard way, written down while they were still fresh, usually by whoever learned them.
Why we churn at five in the morning
The freezer needs six hours to set a batch hard and the Osu counter opens at eleven. Take one from the other and the machine starts before the sun does. Not romance. Arithmetic.
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The three before that
Short pieces about milk, mangoes and getting a frozen thing across Accra in one piece.
A sorbet beats cream in this heat
Fat gives up before water does, which is why the sobolo gets to Adenta in one piece and the tigernut travels in a cool box.
How to feed thirty children ice cream
A birthday, a scoop cart and thirty small people with strong opinions. What we have learned about how much is enough.
Nine months looking for one mango
We tasted everything between Somanya and Techiman before a single crate of it was allowed anywhere near a tub.
The archive
Everything else we have written
10 pieces so far, and most of them exist because something went wrong first. Newest at the top, and not one of them is longer than a page.
Questions we get askedKitchen · 3
Parties · 2
Sourcing · 2
Deliveries · 1
The shops · 1
People · 1
14 February
The rider, the gate and the missing phone
Half of every late delivery is somebody not hearing the horn. Here is what we changed after a very long Friday in Dansoman.
Deliveries
31 January
What we got wrong in East Legon
We built the counter for people who would sit down. Almost nobody sits down. The whole thing came out and went back in facing the street.
The shops
12 January
Why there are only two farms
The third one was cheaper and the milk was never the same twice. Cheap milk turns out to be the most expensive thing in a creamery.
Sourcing
6 December
There is salt in the sobolo
A quarter teaspoon a batch. It does not make it salty, it makes the hibiscus louder, and we argued about it for a month.
Kitchen
18 November
Everybody here started on the counter
Both of us included. You cannot make ice cream for a city you have never had to hand it to across a busy Saturday.
People
2 November
Thirty litres, one wedding, no freezer
A tent in Aburi, a generator that gave up at four, and the three things that now go in the van before anything else.
Parties
Every scoop we posted
Enough reading
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