Rocky road ice cream

Rocky road ice cream

Rocky road ice cream is a chocolate flavour, recently ranked tenth in popularity in the United States. Though there are variations on the flavour, it is traditionally composed of chocolate ice cream, nuts and marshmallows. The flavour was created in March 1929 by William Dreyer in Oakland, California when he cut up walnuts and marshmallows with his wife's sewing scissors and added them to his chocolate ice cream in a manner that reflected his partner Joseph Edy's chocolate candy creation incorporating walnuts and marshmallow pieces. Later, the walnuts would be replaced by pieces of toasted almond. After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the company gave the flavour its current name "to give folks something to smile about in the midst of the Great Depression." [cite web| url = http://www.dreyersinc.com/about/WebHistory.pdf| title = Dreyer's History| accessdate = 2006-04-05] Alternately, Fentons Creamery in Oakland, claims that William Dreyer based his recipe on a Rocky Road-style ice cream flavor invented by his friend, Fentons' George Farren, who blended his own Rocky Road-style candy bar into ice cream; however Dreyer substituted almonds for walnuts. [cite web| url = http://www.fentonscreamery.com/blender.html| title = Fentons Blender Club: Rocky Road Ice Cream| accessdate = 2006-04-05]

The original Rocky Road ice cream used chocolate ice cream with no chocolate chip pieces. [cite book |title=Frozen Desserts: The Definitive Guide to Making Ice Creams, Ices, Sorbets |last=Liddell |first=Caroline |coauthors=Weir, Robin |year=1996 |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |isbn=0312143435 |pages=77 ] Today, Rocky Road can be obtained based on vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips, marshmallows and almonds.

Rocky Road in popular culture

Weird Al Yankovic makes a tribute to Rocky Road with his song "I Love Rocky Road", a parody of the Joan Jett song "I Love Rock and Roll".

ee also

* Tutti Frutti, an ice cream and fruit confection
* Rocky road, a dessert made popular in Australia and the UK

External links

* [http://www.recipesource.com/desserts/ice-cream/00/rec0095.html Recipe]

References


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