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Baked Alaska

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Baked Alaska, also known as Bombe Alaska, is a dessert of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue. Ice cream is placed in a pie dish lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding and topped with meringue, then the whole dessert is placed briefly in an extremely hot oven, or torched, long enough to firm and caramelize the meringue without melting the ice cream underneath. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Origin Period, From (Year)
from 1876 1
Year the name baked Alaska was supposedly coined at Delmonico's restaurant in New York City, honoring the United States' acquisition of Alaska in March 1867.
Origin Region
United States (New York City) 1
The dessert's structural precursor, ice cream under baked meringue, was served nine years earlier, in 1867, at the Paris World's Fair as a Norwegian omelette.
Classification
Course
Dessert 1
Dietary Suitability
Contains Dairy or Egg 1
Sources
1. Baked Alaska (Wikipedia)
  • History section
    The name "baked Alaska" was supposedly coined in 1876 at Delmonico's, a restaurant in New York City, to honor the acquisition by the United States of Alaska from the Russian Empire in March 1867.
  • entity description (course)
    Baked Alaska, also known as Bombe Alaska, is a dessert of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_Alaska (dietary-suitability)
    Baked Alaska, also known as Bombe Alaska, is a dessert consisting of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue.
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