butter brickle

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butter brickle

Apparently originally a trade name for a butterscotch-like candy,^[1] probably from butter(scotch) + brickle (“brittle, breakable”).

butter brickle (uncountable)

^ Grace, Rachel P. (2015 November 2) “The Best Ice Cream Parlor Ever, According To Me”, in Omaha Food: Bigger Than Beef‎^[1], w:Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, retrieved July 25, 2017, pages 90–92:
However, try as I might, I ran into some dead ends tracking down the exact story from anyone still alive today. A U.S. trademark search turns up the first use of 'Butter Brickle' in 1924, and the first registration in 1928 by Council Bluffs candy manufacturer John G. Woodward & Co. Inc. but this is only for the butterscotch-inspired candy, not the actual ice cream.