15 classic American desserts

When was the last time you had one of these desserts - if ever?


America loves its sweets and this love affair with cakes, pies and other desserts have been continuing for some time. Here is 15Classic American desserts This has most disappeared. And for more American food facts, do not miss these40 Fast Food dishes that have defined America.

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Soup cake with tomato soup

Tomato soup spice cake
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You say tomatoes, we say a cake with tomato soup. Campbell is behind this cake, which first surfaces in the 1920s and 30 years old, then matured in 1940 with a recipe called fruit and nut vapor pudding, with steamed pudding with spices like Cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and condensed tomato soup of Campbell. The cake then had many incarnations, including a halloween spice cake in the 40s. And in the 60s, it was even presented on a label of the soup of Campbell, making it the first recipe of your choice on aSoupe can.

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Lady Baltimore cake

Lady baltimore cake
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This classic American beauty was created with white cake layers and fruity and grilled nut fill (figs, raisins, pecans, nuts) and has been crowned with boiled marshmallows. It was a beautiful Southern cake and often had a leading role as a wedding cake at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Cake of Lady Baltimore had apparently nothing to do with the city of Baltimore, or a lady, to this affair. Most accounts, the origin of the name of the cake remains an enigma.

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Lemon Chiffon Cake

Lemon chiffon cake
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Lightweight and venture thanks to the many whites of beaten eggs folded in the dough, this chiffon cake was one of the first to use vegetable oil instead of more traditional solid greases like butter. The tale of the cake does something like this: an insurance agent of Los Angeles named Harry Baker (seriously) invented the cake in 1927 and kept the recipe a guarded secret, which makes him exclusively for the Hollywood cinema stars As well as for the brown derby in Los Angeles, believed to be the first restaurant serving the muslin cake. Fast forward at 1947, when General Mills bought the recipe and Betty Crocker shared it. The rest is the story!

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Brown betty

brown betty
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This classic American dessert, sometimes called Brown Betty apple, is a central fruit dessert in the same genes pool as the cobblestone and crisp apple, and it first surfaces in the late 1800s. As a rule, The apples, pears or bays are baked and the fruit is then superimposed with sweet buttered crumbs and embraced with a whipped cream doll. President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, were fans of Brown Betty's apple when they lived in the White House. And, no, Betty is not Betty Crocker; The origin of the dessert name is on the rise.

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Hermit

Hermit bars
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The hermit was nasty popular in New England in the early twentieth century, thanks to Fannie Farmer, who had a recipe for the spicy biscuit in her cookbooks, including the Uber-popular.Cookbook Original Fannie Farmer In 1896, who was the Boston's Bible Bible from South Boston. HERMITE hermite is disappeared for the most part, although the cookie comes out of reclusive from time to time.

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Trip

Junket
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It can be difficult to believe now, but Junket was a popular dessert in the 20th century, especially in the northeast. It was done with Rennet (a digestive enzyme that collects milk) and sweet milk, and it was prepared for sick children because it helped digestion.

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Superficial pie

Shoofly pie
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A so popular pie that she inspired a song (Shoo Fly, do not bother me ... "), this treatment dates from the 1800s in the Dutch Pennsylvania country. The dessert got his name because it was so attractive, both in the appearance and the eye, which he attracted flies. It is done with rich crumbs of butter and molasses. The spared pie is at the Dutch Pennsylvania what the Boston Cream Tart is in New England and Pecan Pie is for the Suders.

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Alaska baked

Baked alaska
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A dessert that melt hearts and impress a mother-in-law or a birthday party, the baked Alaska was on restaurant menus like a special shared dessert, but not much more, but with the exception of restaurants From the old school like Delmonico's to NYC, who we say that I had invented the dish to celebrate the acquisition of the United States of Alaska in 1867. The alaska cooked is created with ice cream and cake and Garnished with meringue. Kirsch or liquor is added and dessert is defined in flames.

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Bananas Foster

Bananas foster
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Another flamboyant dessert, Boozy Bananas Foster was invented in the early 50s at the Brennan restaurant in Jazzy New Orleans. It was a dessert worthy of applause based on bananas, vanillaice creamButter, brown sugar and cinnamon and dazzled black rum and banana liquor, then fix Aglow.

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Simulated apple pie

Mock apple pie
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There were no apples in this pie. Instead, buttered crackers mocked apples in the recipe. The tart was popular during the Great Depression (some reports go back even before that). Nabisco even printed the recipe on his Ritz cracker box.

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Pan

Sex in a pan
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There is a story behind this multilayer cake name: these layers amounted to six, and thought is that the real name is six in a saucepan that has become the victim of an accidental phone game. The cake was loved for its nut crust as well as for its rich layers of cream cheese, whipped cream, chocolate pudding blend, vanilla pudding mixture and chopped nuts. And, of course, he was also loved for his suggestive name.

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Troop

Tipsy cake
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A boozy cake (so "tipsy"), this decadent dessert is created with a sponge cake (or sometimes a cake with the delivery of books) and soaked in Sherry and Brandy. It has English roots and become a popular South dessert.

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Election cake

Election Cake
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Return the clock to colonial America, when the elections were national holidays and celebrated with cake while the votes were counted, which went for weeks. Election day cakes, they were infused cakes of alcohol with yeast, whiskey and a lot ofspices Like nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon.

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Boston Chocolate Cream Tart

Boston chocolate cream pie
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TheParker House Hotel In the city center of Boston gets rights that are vagrented as the place where Boston Cream pie has been invented in the mid-1800s, although there are rumbling it started elsewhere. It's a yellow butter cake or a sponge cake (and it's not a tart at all) with a rich crystal and thick chocolate icing. It was extremely popular in New England and, even if you can always find it if you look, especially at tourist places, it is nowhere as popular as back in the day, when Boston Brahmins cooked religiously.

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Chess tart

Chess pie
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The name is an enigma - and this pie has nothing to do with the chess game. And unlike the chess game, the recipe of a classic chess pie is a simple butter, a lot of sugar, flour, milk, corn, eggs and a pinch of vinegar (there is also variations such as lemon and chocolate). It is believed that to have origins in the south, where he was loved as a well-liked dessert that even a queen (or a bishop or a knight or a tower) would like.


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