UDF Classic Ice Cream
On May 8th, 1940, in a converted garage, the first United Dairy Farmers store opened.
With original formulas created by our grandfather, Carl Lindner Sr., the first batch
of United Dairy Farmers ice cream was sold out of a 20' x 50' store front. The
production area, adjacent to the store front, was where UDF Ice Cream was frozen
in a 10 gallon brine batch freezer (via a salt and ice mixture). Hand filled in
5 gallon stainless steel cans, the semi-frozen ice cream was poured onto an aluminum
frame holding 20-quart pail cartons, where the tops were then squeegeed to evenly
fill each carton.
In those days, packaged ice cream was sold in pints and quarts ($.25 for a quart,
$.13 for a pint). Our store's bulk ice cream sold three dips for a nickel, and for
people without home freezers, you could bring along your own bowl to the store which
we'd fill up until you said "when". Always an innovator, UDF was one of the first
dairies in the state to introduce the half-gallon package in the late forties.
Three generations later, we still make our ice cream on the site where the first
store stood and we still use those same original formulas. United Dairy Farmers
remains committed to quality ice cream at a price your family can afford, but leave
your bowl at home!
Learn how we
make our ice cream.
UDF Ice Cream Flavors
UDF Light Ice Cream Flavors
UDF Sherbet Flavors
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