11-04-2015 16:28 via nottinghampost.com

Nottingham Post published Nottingham restaurant to revive an icoic dessert

Catering tradition has it that the knickerbocker glory is a British invention – a glass full of sweet distraction from the economic rigours of the generally sour 1930s. However there is a 1915 record of a dessert called simply a knickerbocker... in the United States.The extravagant concoction of ice cream and fruit sounds more USA than Britain, where extravagance with ice cream in the 20th century tended to stop with a brick of vanilla between two soggy wafers.But if the origins of the...
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