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recent rotating flavor, malted robin's egg,
an homage to Easter, featured a malted
ice cream base with chopped robin's egg
Whoppers.
Melt Ice Cream, 60 Washington
Street, Salem, 978-826-5703, meltsalem.com
Benson's
Ice Cream
Katherine Perley Benson opened Boxford's
Benson's Ice Cream during the Great
Depression. "She decided to sell plates of
ice cream for a nickel on her front porch in
1932," says current owner and Katherine's
great-granddaughter, Tina Benson de la
Cruz. Today, the ice cream stand, which
is open from spring through October, is
known both for its small-batch scoops and
for their fresh fruit flavors, which are made
with fruits harvested from local farms like
Ingaldsby Farm, Barker's Farm, Marini Farm,
Cider Hill, Brooksby Farm, and more. "My
favorite part of my job is driving to the local
farms to pick up sun-ripened fruit fresh from
the fields," Benson de la Cruz says. The best
way to learn whether the native strawberry,
red raspberry, black raspberry, fresh peach,
fresh sweet corn, fresh baked apple, and
Above,
Benson's
Ice Cream
has been
in business
since 1932.
Left, Holy
Cow Ice
Cream Café
is an award-
winning
choice for a
cool treat.
other fruit flavors are in stock, she says, is to
check the stand's Facebook page.
Benson's Ice Cream, 181 Washington Street,
Boxford, 978-352-2911, bensonsicecream.com
Churn & Co.
Creamery
With limited flavors and cultish appeal,
Churn & Co., the Danvers-based ice cream
