French Desserts
What is a dessert? Desserts include ice-cream, cakes, pastries, fried sweets, etc. We can call a dessert any sweet dish. Desserts can be very easy in preparation as chopped up fruits, for example, or extremely complex as dishes prepared by using various combinations of freezing, frying, baking, etc. Desserts appeared in the early times. Desserts were called dishes that had sweet taste and were served at the end of the meal. In all parts of the world, in many countries, exist own unique recipes of the desserts, but some common dishes were adopted too. For example: what English call biscuits, Italians call biscotti, Americans call cookies. Famous English pancake is the French Crepe. In Europe there exist many variations of dessert recipes. Famous ones are: cheesecake, Torte, tarts, soufflé, fudge, and truffle. The dessert recipes all over the world consist of some kind of flour or rice, sugar, or some substitute, butter, milk, cream, and cheese might be used, and also fruits and nuts. (Zaidi, 2000) (more…)
