National Lemon Meringue Pie

Mardi Gras is a big deal mainly because Louisiana is the only state that celebrates it. As always, there is a famous dish that comes along with this holiday and it is King Cake. King Cake is a dessert that is made up of bread, filling, and colorful icing. King Cake was created in the mid-1800s and was made to celebrate the 12th night after Christmas. This dessert represents the coming of the three kings or three wise men (Dave). There are many simple steps to creating a King Cake. After creating the strips of dough for the King Cake, some braids then bakes the strips together which creates the unique look to the dessert. Some people may wonder what makes this thick piece of bread a dessert. Well, after the dough bakes into its unique form, someone splatters icing all over the cake and covers the dough in Mardi Gras colored sprinkles (purple, green and gold). Sometimes King Cakes will be made with different kinds of filling such as, cream cheese, strawberry, apple, or other types. The Mardi Gras colored sprinkles that are on King Cakes symbolize powerful words. Purple stands for justice, green stands for faith, and gold stands for power. The meanings of the colors were created in 1892 during the Rex Parade (Dave). The world’s largest King Cake was baked in 1998 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and it weighed 350 pounds (Dave). There is a secret ingredient that someone inserts in each King Cake and that is

Mardi Gras, first introduced to New Orleans in the early 1730s, is now one of the most celebrated holidays by many natives in Louisiana. Several events are planned for the celebration, beginning in late October or November, which leads into the Mardi Gras season. Mardi Gras involves a series of events and products like Mardi Gras Balls, delicious cakes that are famously known as King Cakes, and parades every day beginning in January and ending on the day that is designated Mardi Gras Day, also known as Fat Tuesday. Fat Tuesday is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, the Catholic holiday that marks the beginning of Lent. During the parades, the people riding on the floats throw beads, candy, and stuffed animals, sometimes even other things, to those who have come from all around the world to witness a true New Orleans Mardi Gras. Some companies will even shut down their businesses to celebrate this holiday, even though it is not a national holiday. By

Mooncakes, or Bánh Trung Thu, is the Vietnamese name for the Chinese-influenced bakery delight traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. A key to the festival’s celebration in addition to lunar worship and moon-watching, was enjoying with family and friends an indispensable delicacy with sips of warm tea. My aunt bought me a mooncake in the shape of a cute piglet. Being twice the size of my hands combined, I happily cupped the clear plastic container tied together by a small red ribbon. After anxiously skipping home with Mister Piggy (see Figure 2), I swiftly untied the red ribbon and tore

Pumpkin pie was introduced to us in 1924, the worlds biggest pumpkin pie weighted 350 lbs, of 36 pound sugar, 144 eggs. Nd did you know that October 12, & December 25 are both national pie day. ("And did you know even when Pumpkin pie is a most had delicacy at thanksgiving pumpkin pie was not served at the first thanksgiving Pumpkin pie"). If you have never eaten pumpkin pie before here are the flavors it comes in, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. Jacksepticeye loved pumpkin pie it was one of his favorite things to eat every day PUMPKIN PIE IS A

Merengue dance’s name came from the sweet treat made of sugar and egg whites because of the dance’s light and frothy moves. The dance is simple and rural with clear beats that it is almost the opposite of the salsa, which requires complex spin steps. The exact origins of the merengue dance are unclear.

Kayla Hill 1/23/17 language arts 1-2 Lemon Pound Cake Are you tired of the old boring pound cake? Well guess what I have lemon pound cake for you. I am going to tell how you how to make it from my own experience. First, you have to get the ingredients to make the cake.

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One of my families’ favorite thanksgiving deserts is homemade upside down apple pie. From the smell throughout the house to the pie with ice cream on top has become a family enjoyment we have all come to live and enjoy every thanksgiving. Often times, my sisters and I would enjoy conversation and memories while making the pies while the men in the family were sitting together talking about and watching the Dallas Cowboys game. The pies have always served a way of bring all of the girls together to share laughter and stories each year and enjoy a fantastic desert in the process.

Although the recipe did not have instructions on how to make the lemon curd it was a simple process of lemon juice, an egg, granulated sugar, a stick of butter and lemon zest over a simmer of 6 minutes in a small pot and an extra 20-30 minutes for the curd to cool down. As soon as that was finished I moved onto my vanilla sponge cake. I grabbed all my ingredients that consisted of eggs, sugar, vanilla extract, self rising flour, butter and confectioners sugar. I sifted in my sugar and added my eggs and beat it with an electric mixer for about 5 minutes then added a few drops of vanilla extract. I sifted in the flour and completed mixing everything together. I buttered my pan and put it in the oven for 30 minutes. When it was done baking I had realized that the mix did no rise like I thought it would, later while reading “Everyday Easy Cakes & Cupcakes” by DK Publishing, it states that self rising flour and regular flour are very different from each

In this article it talks about how some areas have fresher Peaches then others; while others get lucky to have one or two a season. But at the end of Grant Cornett’s Article he describes how to create a “Perfect Peach Pie”. The purpose of this article was to inform people about fresh peaches and give them a detailed recipe for a “Perfect Peach Pie”. The audience of this particular article would be anyone who likes to cook or try new things. It could be teenagers, or mothers, or grandmothers, or restaurant owners thinking up new desserts for their customers.

Derby pie: Named for the storied horse race, Derby pie was originally invented by the Melrose Inn in Prospect, KY. Today the official recipe for this chocolate-chip-and-pecan pie is closely guarded by Louisville's Kerns Bakery, but thankfully they can be ordered online. Or, try a thoroughbred pie, a take on this dreamy Kentucky dessert.

No one is going to wanna miss all of the variety of flavors and frozen dishes they have to offer. One of their most famous and traditional flavor of ice cream is the soft served lemon flavor which has been around for over 50 years.

Cake began getting its popularity levels threw the roof when the civil war passed. Since the sugar plantations were destroyed due to this. This was mainly in Louisiana. But it also happened in other places to. So people substituted molasses and sorghum. They made a Gateau de Sirop of Louisiana. They made the Appalachian Stack Cake. This began to spread around. And people began coming up with other cakes to! People got a lot of ideas by other people's cakes. Some people would even copy other ideas.

The filling varies depending on where you are eating your lamington, however, the most common variations are vanilla, custard and strawberry. The sponge cakes are also blanched with a thin chocolate sauce for the coconut to stick, turning it into a cistern of sweet flavor goodness in every bite. This lavish dessert is said to originate from Queensland Governor Lord Lamington who reigned supreme from 1896 to 1901. As of today, you can have a taste of lamingtons as it is being widely reproduced for local and exporting purposes. The strong love for lamingtons even paved the way for July 21 as Australia’s National Lamington

Nutella spread was invented at 1940 by Mr. Pietro Ferrero. At this time there was very less chocolate because of the II World War and small supply of cocoa, thus idea to use hazelnuts, which were highly available at Pedimont where company was