Rocky Road is one of the few classic American ice cream flavors with a known inventor and date. It was created in 1929 in Oakland, California, by William Dreyer, co-founder of Dreyer’s, who used his wife’s sewing scissors to cut marshmallows and walnuts into chocolate ice cream. He and his business partner, the candy maker Joseph Edy, named it “Rocky Road” to give people something to smile about in the first grim months of the Great Depression.
To make it at home, soften good chocolate ice cream, then fold in a handful of mini marshmallows and toasted chopped almonds (or walnuts). Refreeze until firm.
Sources and notes: Rocky Road was created in 1929 in Oakland by William Dreyer and his partner Joseph Edy, who named it for the hard times of the Great Depression. (Wikipedia, Rocky road; Dreyer’s.)
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