It’s Mr Nippy as crab and lobster turned into ice cream

Fresh crab and lobster harvested off the Holderness coast and 
landed at Withernsea will be turned into an ice cream 
dessert to be served up at the 
Shiver Me Timbers Ice Cream Festival.

The shellfish is being supplied by local fisherman John White, who has taken a number of steps to reduce the impact fishing has on the environment, including putting “V” notches into the tails of pregnant lobsters to help protect local “broodstock”.

Kat Sanders, from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, which is working with Mr White, said: “Anything that raises awareness of the project and the messages we are trying to get across is brilliant.

“We are trying to advocate that consumers of shellfish ask where something is caught and how it is caught and make responsible decisions based on that information.”

Over 60 flavours of ice cream will be on offer at the event on Sunday August 25, at the Patrington Haven Caravan and Leisure Park, including old English trifle, brown bread, walnut and banana pudding, and for those over 18, alcoholic ices.

Strawberries and champagne ice cream will be served from an array of mobile ice cream parlours, retro American street carts and a restored “stop me and buy one” 1950s ice cream trike from Beverley-based ice cream and milkshake vendors Dreamshakers.

A hand-crafted ice cream birthday cake – made from milk from a herd of pedigree Friesians at Roe’s Farm Dairy in Barton-upon-Humber, will be another treat, along with tasters of crab ice cream and lobster ice cream, crafted by chefs at the country club at the leisure park.

Ice cream is thought to have been created in China from buffalo milk over 3,000 years ago. On average people eat over 5.2 litres of it – the only food sold by volume and not weight – a year in the UK.