What's summer without a pop of a flavoured and frozen fruit or milk indulgence on a stick? However, a great alternative to eating store-bought ice cream is making them at home using fruit juice or any milk-based freezable beverage. Dean Rodrigues, pastry chef, Academy of Pastry and Culinary Arts remembers how as a kid, his grandmother taught him and his brother to make their favourite drink like lemonade or orange juice and then just freeze it. "We would make several of them in summer, that would block our freezer; we used to enjoy it every afternoon," he recalls.

Chef Aditi Goel too gets nostalgic at the sight of popsicles. "As kids, orange popsicles would make our lips, tongues and faces orange, and the melted liquid would drip down on our shirts, in summer. We used to sit on the car bonnet and eat the popsicles; the shopkeeper would give my mom some water so she could wipe our hands and face," she adds. Now she makes them at home and stocks them for everyone to have. "It's our favourite thing to do during lockdown," Goel says.