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This is a list of British desserts, i.e. desserts characteristic of British cuisine, the culinary tradition of the United Kingdom. The British kitchen has a long tradition of noted sweet-making, particularly with puddings, custards , and creams; custard sauce is called crème anglaise (English cream) in French cuisine .
Cherries jubilee is a dessert dish made with cherries and liqueur (typically kirschwasser), which are flambéed tableside, and commonly served as a sauce over vanilla ice cream. [ 1 ] The recipe is generally credited to Auguste Escoffier , [ 2 ] who prepared the dish for one of Queen Victoria 's Jubilee celebrations, widely thought to be the ...
Victorian England became known throughout Europe for its bland and unappetizing food but many housewives cooked in this fashion since it was the safest way to prepare food before refrigeration. [2] The Victorian breakfast was usually a heavy meal: sausages, preserves, bacon and eggs, served with bread rolls.
The Victoria sponge, also known as the Victoria sandwich cake, was named after Queen Victoria, who was known to enjoy the small cakes with her afternoon tea. The version Queen Victoria ate would have been filled with jam alone, but modern versions often include cream. [ 38 ]
Vietnamese dessert made in the Thái Bình Province of northern Vietnam. It is made of sticky rice, sugar, gac or gardenia, sesame, carrots, mandarin orange peel, and lard. Bánh cốm: Vietnam: Vietnamese dessert made from flattened and chewy green rice and mung bean. Bánh gai: Vietnam: Vietnamese dessert made from sticky rice, ramie leaf and ...
This is a list of sweet puddings that conform to one of two definitions: A dish consisting of a fluid mixture of various ingredients baked, steamed or boiled into a solid mass; A dessert consisting of sweetened milk thickened to a creamy consistency, either by cooking or the addition of starch or other thickening agent (see: Creamy pudding)
An assortment of desserts. A chocolate-strawberry crumble ball. Indian confectionery desserts (known as mithai, or sweets in some parts of India). Sugar and desserts have a long history in India: by about 500 BC, people in India had developed the technology to produce sugar crystals.