Sweden sundae

Swedish ice cream sundae on an excursion boat in the city of Brandenburg, summer 2011

The Swedish ice cream cup (also simply Sweden cup ) was a typical recipe of the GDR and is still offered today in many restaurants in eastern Germany as a popular dessert or ice cream creation .

The sundae is made of ice cream with vanilla , apple sauce , eggnog and whipped cream .

Origin of name

The Swedish ice cream sundae in its current form was first mentioned in 1952 on a map of an ice cream parlor in the Berlin district of Pankow . There is the following statement about the origin of the name:

During the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , the ice hockey team from the then Federal Republic of Germany played against the team from Sweden . The Swedes won the game 7-3. Out of joy at the defeat of the Federal Republic , Walter Ulbricht is said to have christened this ice cream creation he preferred with the name “Swedish ice cream cup”.

Footnotes

↑ Julia Haak: The sweet temptation. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung , October 31, 2001, accessed on October 17, 2015 . Katja Winckler: Swedish ice cream cup in front of a floral wallpaper. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung, March 12, 2003, accessed on October 17, 2015 .
↑ Jutta Voigt : The Taste of the East: From Eating, Drinking and Living in the GDR . 3. Edition. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-378-01076-2 , p. 90 .

[1] Julia Haak: The sweet temptation. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung , October 31, 2001, accessed on October 17, 2015 . Katja Winckler: Swedish ice cream cup in front of a floral wallpaper. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung, March 12, 2003, accessed on October 17, 2015 .

[2] Jutta Voigt : The Taste of the East: From Eating, Drinking and Living in the GDR . 3. Edition. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-378-01076-2 , p. 90 .