Oh, today of all days. I want dessert! I am so craving for anything sweet right now. So today's post will be on one of my vices dessert.
Ok so lets start with Ice cream, These wonderful creations were around for years! Ancient civilizations have served ice for cold foods for thousands of years.
Mesopotamia has the earliest icehouses in existence, 4,000 years ago, beside the
Euphrates River, where the wealthy stored items to keep them cold. The
pharaohs of
Egypt had ice shipped to them.In the fifth century BC, ancient
Greeks sold snow cones mixed with honey and fruit in the markets of
Athens.
[citation needed] Persians, having mastered the storage of ice, ate chilled desserts well into summer.
Roman Emperor Nero (37–68) had ice brought from the mountains and combined with fruit toppings. These were some early chilled delicacies.
Thank you for this dear ancients.
And for the latest crave cupcakes, some interesting facts: In the early 19th century, there were two different uses for the name "cup cake" or "cupcake". In previous centuries, before
muffin tins were widely available, the cakes were often baked in individual pottery cups,
ramekins, or molds and took their name from the cups they were baked in. This is the use of the name that has persisted, and the name of "cupcake" is now given to any small cake that is about the size of a
teacup. The name "fairy cake" is a fanciful description of its size, which would be appropriate for a party of diminutive
fairies to share. In Australia, the term pattycake is also used, referring to the patty pans they are cooked in.
They look so good!
And my all time fav! CHOCOLATES!Fact : Chocolate has been used as a drink for nearly all of its history. The earliest record of using chocolate dates back before the
Olmec. In November 2007, archaeologists reported finding evidence of the oldest known cultivation and use of cacao at a site in Puerto Escondido,
Honduras, dating from about 1100 to 1400 BC.
Yummmmmmmmms
Cotton Candy use to be my sunday afternoon craving when I was a lil girl...
According to Gourmet magazine, cotton candy was invented in 1897 by William Morrison and John C. Wharton and first introduced to a wide audience at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 as "Fairy Floss"with great success, selling 68,655 boxes at the then-high $0.25, half the cost of admission to the fair. Fairy floss was renamed to "cotton candy" in the 1920s.Tootsie Roll of Canada Ltd. has a bagged product called "Fluffy Stuff" that it claims was first introduced at the 1893 World's Fair.
The
United States celebrates National Cotton Candy Day on December 7. I will so celebrate that!
I never knew this about candy but did you know that The word "candy" comes from
Arabic qandi, derived from
Persian qand, meaning "sugar."
Oh the colours! The texture and the taste!
The
origin of the word "biscuit" is from
Latin via
Middle French and means "cooked twice,"
hence
biscotti in Medieval Italian (similar to the
German Zwieback, and still present in Dutch "
beschuit"). In modern Italian usage the term biscotto is used to refer to any type of
cookie, but not a savory cracker. Some of the original biscuits were
British naval hard tack; such hard tack was made in the United States through the 19th century. Throughout most of the world, the term biscuit still means a hard, crisp, brittle bread, except in the USA and Canada, where it now denotes a softer bread product baked only once.
Doughnuts have a disputed history. One theory suggests that doughnuts were introduced into North America by Dutch settlers, who were responsible for popularizing other American desserts, including
cookies,
apple pie,
cream pie, and
cobbler. This theory is bolstered by the fact that in the mid-19th century doughnuts were called
olykoeks ("oily cakes") by the Dutch. However, there is also archaeological evidence that the pastries were prepared by prehistoric Native Americans in the southwestern United States.
And last but not least cakes...I feel there is no need for explanations of any sort so I will let the pictures do the talking
Im so taking the husband out for dessert! hehehe
"I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts. " ~Graham Kerr
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