Today at work we got in seven copies of 'The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook', which advertised on the front cover a foodstuff(?) called 'Knickerbocker Glory
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Knickerbocker has a broader range of associations than boys' clothing, most of them being old New York, but you have to read a lot of turn of the last century writers to know.
That said, if it's HP it's a British dessert, the Knickerbocker Glory, "first described in the 1930s" as the glory of people who wore knickerbockers at the time ie ravenous young boys. Is "the only sundae mentioned by name in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series", hence its appearance in a cookbook.
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That said, if it's HP it's a British dessert, the Knickerbocker Glory, "first described in the 1930s" as the glory of people who wore knickerbockers at the time ie ravenous young boys. Is "the only sundae mentioned by name in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series", hence its appearance in a cookbook.
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