Neapolitan ice cream

The Prince Pueckler ice (French demi - glace à la Pueckler ) is an icecream sundae from three different ice-creams, which are frozen together. It is named after the park designer and travel writer Hermann von Pueckler ( 1785-1871 ).

The oldest known recipe for an ice cream that name comes from the Royal Prussian royal chef Louis Ferdinand Jungius, the Pueckler 1839 in his cookbook devoted a three-layer ice cream. Its main ingredients were whipped cream, sugar and fresh fruit or jam in the winter, which were arranged in a mold in layers. Because of the high fat content of the cream ground freezes only half

It later developed into a preparation of chocolate, strawberry or raspberry ice cream and flavored with maraschino bright macaroon ice mass. Meanwhile, no more macaroons are used. The known today as Prince Pueckler specialty ice is usually a combination of chocolate and strawberry or raspberry with vanilla ice cream. Very well known and widespread is the prince Pueckler cuts, will be offered in the three-layer ice cream between two waffles or as Eispastete. In industrially produced ice cream after the name means prince Pueckler way that it consists of three layers in the aforementioned flavors.

International is for this combination of vanilla, strawberry and chocolate ice cream usually the English name Neapolitan ice cream or Neapolitan slice ( Neapolitan cuts ), where the name originally referred to the production of a layer ice in an Italian ice form and was independent of the flavors.