Review: The Dairy Godmother

Many of you have heard of a Fairy Godmother, a type of fairy tale character famed by the likes of Perrault in two of his classic tales, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. But how many of you have heard of a Dairy Godmother? Probably not many. So what, might you ask, is a Dairy or even a Fairy Godmother? In Sleeping Beauty, there are three Fairy Godmothers that use their magic to guide and support the heroine. At The Dairy Godmother custard shop in Del Ray Virginia, the Dairy Godmother uses a powerful magic to convert eggs, milk, and sugar into thick, soft, and sweet, cold custard, that all of us everyday heros and heroines can enjoy.

Most of the magic at The Dairy Godmother presents itself in the method by which the custard is made. Very little air is introduced during the beating and churning processes, resulting in a dense, creamy custard that slowly extrudes from the metal hopper in which it thickens (see photo, left).
The remaining magic comes in the variety of flavors offered. Each day, Liz, The Dairy Godmother, creates a new 'flavor of the day'. On my first visit to the shop last October, I tried the Tollhouse cookie flavor, a vanilla custard speckled with chocolate chip cookie crumbles (see photo, right, half eaten).

So watch out, because with all this magic abound, you might just find yourself under a spell. A spell that lures you back into the shop on a regular basis. I know this spell well, and you will too, soon after your first visit.

http://www.thedairygodmother.com/