The sprinkles known as nonpareils in French are tiny opaque spheres that were traditionally white, but that now come in many colors.
"Jimmies", in this sense, are usually considered to be used as an ice cream topping, while sprinkles are for decorating baked goods, but the term can be used for both. In the Northeastern United States, sprinkles are often referred to as jimmies. In British English, these are sugar strands or hundreds-and-thousands (the latter term alludes to their supposed uncountability). Some American manufacturers deem the elongated opaque sprinkles the official sprinkles. Both crystal and pearl sugars are typically used for sprinkling on sweet breads, pastries, and cookies in many countries. Pearl sugar is relatively large, opaque white spheroids of sugar. Crystal sugar tends to be clear and of much larger crystals than sanding sugar. Sanding sugar is a transparent crystal sugar of larger size than general-use refined white sugar. Candy cane shapes may taste like peppermint, and gingerbread men like gingerbread cookies. These latter come in a variety of shapes, often flavored, for holidays or themes, such as Halloween witches and pumpkins, or flowers and dinosaurs. Nonpareils, confetti, silver, gold, and pearl dragées – not to be confused with pearl sugar (which is also sprinkled on baked goods) – and hundreds-and-thousands are all used this way, along with a newer product called "sugar shapes" or "sequins".
What consumers often call "sprinkles" covers several types of candy decorations that are sprinkled randomly over a surface, as opposed to decorations that are placed in specific spots.
Popular terminology for this confection tends to overlap, while manufacturers are more precise with their labeling. Now it comes in a wide variety, including black and metallic-like "glitter".Ĭolored sprinkles, chocolate syrup and whipped cream on top of ice cream. However, advertisements for chocolate sprinkles as a confection exist in the United States as far back as 1921, predating Just Born by two years.Ī related product, sanding sugar has been commercially available in a small range of colors for decades. The American candy company Just Born cites its founder, Sam Born, as inventing the "chocolate" sprinkles called "jimmies" (which may never have contained any chocolate) in Brooklyn, New York. If it is lower than 32%, it is to be referred to as cacaofantasie or cacaofantasie hagelslag (cacao fantasy sprinkles). Only hagelslag with a cacao percentage of more than 32% can bear the name chocoladehagelslag (chocolate sprinkles). (This reference is also transferred to the Finnish word for sprinkles, "Koristerakeet" which literally means "decorative hail"). They were named hagelslag after their resemblance to a weather phenomenon prominent in the Netherlands: hail. After much research and venture, de Vries and Venz created the first machine to produce the tiny cylindrical treats. Most of the time butter is spread out so the hagelslag does not fall off. Venz, another Dutch company, made hagelslag popular. They were used as decoration for pièces montées and desserts.ĭutch hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles) were invented in 1913 by Erven H. Nonpareils date back at least to the late 18th century, if not earlier. In Connecticut and other places in the U.S., as indicated by including the sense in the official Merriam-Webster, shots is a specific term for sprinkles. The fund however was started in 1948, well after the first historical reference. Brigham opened an ice cream restaurant called Brigham's and charged an extra penny for chocolate sprinkles on a cone, which benefited The Jimmy Fund. Farber co-founded the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, as well as a charity, The Jimmy Fund, named after one of his child patients. Īnother unlikely claim on the name jimmies originates from Dr. The Just Born Candy Company of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, claims to have invented jimmies and named them after an employee.
The origin of the name jimmies is uncertain, but it was first documented in 1930, as a topping for cake. Jimmies is the most popular term for chocolate sprinkles in the Philadelphia, Boston and New England regions. This name can be seen borrowed into spoken Egyptian Arabic as faːrmasil. Another UK variant of the term is vermicelli, especially when said of chocolate sprinkles. For example, hundreds and thousands is the most popular denotation used in Britain as well as the anglophonic Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) to refer to sprinkles and nonpareils. In the UK and other Anglophonic commonwealth countries sprinkles are denoted by different signifiers.
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