Plombir
Type of Russian ice cream
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History
The name "plombir" descends from the French dessert plombières, a vanilla ice cream mixed with candied fruit soaked in kirsch.[1]
In 1936, Joseph Stalin sent Anastas Mikoyan from the People's Commissar of the Food Industry on a business trip to the United States to study and adapt American food production. In addition to purchasing food equipment, Mikoyan brought many food recipes from the United States, one of which was ice cream. On November 4, 1937, the first plombir was produced in Moscow using American equipment and given a Frenchified name.[2]
During the 1930s, the state standardized production, and it remained this way until the collapse of the USSR. In the 1990s, Russia started importing foreign brands of ice cream, and the state standards were dropped.[3]