London shop to make breast

milk ice cream

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A

specialist ice cream parlour plans

to serve up breast milk ice cream

and says people should think of it

as an organic, free-range treat.

The breast milk concoction, called

the "Baby Gaga", will be available

from Friday at the Icecreamists

restaurant in London's Covent

Garden.

Icecreamists founder Matt

O'Connor was confident his take

on the "miracle of motherhood"

and priced at a hefty 14 pounds

($23) a serving will go down a

treat with the paying public.

The breast milk was provided by

mothers who answered an

advertisement on online mothers'

forum Mumsnet.

Victoria Hiley, 35, from London

was one of 15 women who

donated milk to the restaurant

after seeing the advert.

Hiley works with women who

have problems breast-feeding

their babies. She said she believes

that if adults realised how tasty

breast milk actually is, then new

mothers would be more willing to

breast-feed their own newborns.

"What could be more natural than

fresh, free-range mother's milk in

an ice cream? And for me it's a

recession beater too -- what's the

harm in using my assets for a bit

of extra cash," Hiley said in a

statement.

"I tried the product for the first

time today -- it's very nice, it really

melts in the mouth."

The Baby Gaga recipe blends

breast milk with Madagascan

vanilla pods and lemon zest,

which is then churned into ice

cream.

O'Connor said the Baby Gaga was

just one of a dozen radical new

flavours at the shop.

"Some people will hear about it

and go, 'yuck' but actually it's

pure, organic, free-range and

totally natural," he said. "I had a

Baby Gaga just this morning and I

feel great.