{"id":8758,"date":"2026-10-27T13:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parade.kyoto\/?post_type=sweetlore&p=8758"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:52:33","slug":"rugbrausis","status":"publish","type":"sweetlore","link":"https:\/\/parade.kyoto\/en\/sweetlore\/rugbrausis\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00fagbrau\u00f0s\u00eds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

R\u00fagbrau\u00f0s\u00eds is an ice cream made with Iceland\u2019s dark rye bread. The flavor of the sweet bread carries into the cold dairy dessert, and in versions that leave bits of bread in, you can also enjoy their texture.<\/p>\n

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An example of Danish rye bread. 2005, Denmark. Photo: Sten Porse. Not the Icelandic bread itself, but a reference example of rye bread \/ Source<\/a> \/ CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>. Reduced-size version from the source; content not altered after retrieval.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Turning the Flavor of Bread into Ice Cream<\/h2>\n

In a dish created by students at Iceland\u2019s hotel and food school, rye bread is warmed with milk, cream, sugar and glucose, and brought to a boil while being stirred. The mixture is then churned and frozen in an ice cream machine and served on top of a warm bread pudding. It also comes with a sauce of lemon and raisins that are cooked and mashed, a combination with tartness amid the sweetness.<\/p>\n

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An example of raisins. Photo: Pawe\u0142 Ku\u017aniar (Jojo_1, Jojo) \/ Source<\/a> \/ CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>. Image used as provided by the source; content not altered after retrieval.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Caf\u00e9 Loki, across from Hallgr\u00edmskirkja in Reykjav\u00edk, also serves rye bread ice cream. An article introducing the caf\u00e9\u2019s offerings says you can feel bits of bread in the creamy ice cream. Depending on the form of the bread used and how it is mixed in, the texture of the grain remains in the cold ice cream.<\/p>\n

Bread Baked with Geothermal Heat, and a Home-Style Soup<\/h2>\n

The bread used as the ingredient, r\u00fagbrau\u00f0, is a dark, moist rye bread with a touch of sweetness. In Laugarvatn, Iceland, a method has been handed down in which a pot of dough is buried in sand warmed by the heat of hot springs and cooked for about a day. The warm bread, once dug up, can also be eaten with butter. It can also be baked for a long time in an oven without geothermal heat, so not all rye bread is made underground.<\/p>\n

Ice cream is not the only sweet dish that uses this bread. In Anna Laura P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir\u2019s home, leftover rye bread was frozen, and once enough had built up, it was cooked down in water, and lemon, raisins and a malt beverage were added. For her, this bread soup served with whipped cream is a childhood taste she would want to eat even on her birthday.<\/p>\n

Students at the hotel and food school took the ingredients of that soup and reworked them into a bread pudding, rye bread ice cream, and a lemon and raisin sauce. It is an example that combines a warm dessert and a cold dessert on one plate, born from a familiar way of eating bread.<\/p>\n

Glossary<\/h2>\n

Anna Laura P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>: A person who shared memories of the bread soup made at home.<\/p>

R\u00fagbrau\u00f0<\/strong>: A dark, sweet Icelandic rye bread.<\/p>

Glucose<\/strong>: A type of sugar. In the recipe introduced here, it is used in the ice cream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R\u00fagbrau\u00f0s\u00eds is an ice cream made with r\u00fagbrau\u00f0, Iceland\u2019s rye bread. The sweet, dark bread gives its flavor to the cold dairy dessert. At a caf\u00e9 in Reykjav\u00edk, it is served as a dish that uses this local bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8099,"menu_order":529,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_parade_sweetlore_meta":{"en":"R\u00fagbrau\u00f0s\u00eds","subtitle":"Ingredients and Method of R\u00fagbrau\u00f0s\u00eds","topics":"Ice cream made with sweet rye bread \/ The toasty flavor of bread infused into dairy \/ A dish found at shops in Iceland","country":"Iceland","show_toc":true,"ingredients":["cream","grain"],"texture":[],"occasion":[],"method":["chilled"],"season":[]},"footnotes":""},"sweetlore_category":[164],"class_list":["post-8758","sweetlore","type-sweetlore","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"sweetlore_related_products":null,"sweetlore_related_faqs":null,"sweetlore_related_voices":null,"sweetlore_related_mode":"auto","sweetlore_related_articles":null},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t