Europeans in the Middle Ages believed that birthdays were the day when the soul was most easily invaded by demons, so on birthdays, relatives and friends would get together to give blessings and send cakes to bring good luck to drive away demons.
At first, only kings were entitled to eat birthday cakes. Today, both adults and children can buy a beautiful cake on their birthdays and enjoy the blessings from everyone.
The origin of the moon cake
When the baby is full moon, it is inevitable to pray to God for ancestor worship, and then shave the fetal hair. Adults always want their babies to grow up quickly. On the full moon, grandparents will send many full moon cakes to their babies, hoping that their grandchildren will win the first prize and have a happy life.
With the progress of the times, giving cakes at the full moon means "puffing", wishing the baby a bright future.
The Origin of Wedding Cake
Wedding cake is said to have first appeared in ancient Rome. The word cake comes from English, which means flat bread. It also means "happiness".
In ancient times, when children of rich families held weddings, they had to make a special cake, which was not only eaten by the bride and groom at the wedding reception, but also invited the guests who came to congratulate them to eat the cake. The guests hope that they can share the happiness of the newlyweds. So the cake was cut on the bride's head.
Guests invited to the wedding in Europe also have a habit of piling their own bread with spices on the table and letting the bride and groom kiss each other on both sides of the "bread mountain". At this time, the bread mountain also symbolizes happiness.
At first, the cake was no different from bread. The cake is made by kneading milk and flour into a flat circle. Nowadays, wedding cakes are becoming more and more exquisite and luxurious.
The origin of black forest cake
Actually, it is more appropriate to translate Schwarzwaelder Kirschtorte into "Black Forest Cherry Cream Cake". Because Schwarzwaelder is black forest in German, Kirschtorte means cherry cream cake. After careful study, the Black Forest, to put it bluntly, is really just a "cherry cream cake without chocolate".
According to legend, in ancient times, whenever there was a good harvest of cherries in the Black Forest area, farmers not only made extra cherries into jam, but also generously placed them in the interlayer of cakes, or carefully decorated them one by one when making cakes. When making whipped cream for cakes, a lot of cherry juice will be added ~ and this cake with cherries and whipped cream as the main raw materials will become the so-called "black forest cake" after it is spread from the black forest to other places!
Although most pastry chefs in Germany use a lot of chocolate when making black forest at present, the real protagonist of black forest cake is delicious and rich cherry! In the past, there were cases in Germany where consumers sued the black forest cake for its low cherry content. Therefore, the German government has also made relevant regulations on this national treasure black forest. For example, the cream part of the black forest cake must contain at least 80 grams of cherry juice!
So black forest really doesn't mean black. And black forest cake is not synonymous with chocolate cake! The Black Forest is a mountainous area in the southwest of Germany, from baden-baden, baden-baden to Frejborg, belonging to the Black Forest Area. Even if you come to the black forest today, you may not be lucky enough to taste the ubiquitous black forest cake. However, when you have a chance to enjoy the black forest here, you might as well pay attention to the small cherry in the cake, let you know the black forest again, and don't forget to feel the freshness hidden in the depths of the taste buds.
The origin of Vienna chocolate almond cake
The Hotel Imperial, which opened in A.D. 1873, used to be a gathering place for powerful people. From the "k.u.k Hof-imperial" in the imperial period to the later "Hotel lmperial", it has always been the best hotel in Austria. 1994 was selected as the best hotel in the world.
There is also a little legend here. In order to celebrate the opening of the restaurant and show the glory of Emperor Franz Joseph, a pastry chef Xaver Loibner baked a cake with special flavor, which was not only loved by the emperor, but also named it "Royal Cake", which was regarded as a "sweet greeting". Taste it carefully. First of all, you will taste the delicious milk chocolate on the outer layer of the cake, which will slowly melt with the sweet almond flavor on the tip of your tongue. Then the broken almonds in the cake will fill your taste and release the fragrance of cocoa, leaving it in your mouth perfectly and delicately.
The origin of cheesecake
Cheesecake, or cheesecake and cheesecake, is a western dessert. It has a soft top layer, mixed with special cheese, such as whey cheese or cream cheese, plus sugar and other ingredients, such as eggs, cream and fruit. Cheesecake is usually based on biscuits and has several fixed flavors, such as vanilla cheesecake and chocolate cheesecake. As for the surface decoration, it is often strawberries or blueberries.
Sometimes cheesecake looks more like a pie than an ordinary cake.
A brief history of cheesecake is well known. It originated in ancient Greece and was used as a dessert for the Athens Olympic Games in 776. Then the Romans spread cheesecake from Greece to Europe. /kloc-in the 0/9th century, it followed immigrants to America.
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In new york, USA, the best cheesecake shop is called Juniors, which is located in Brooklyn. In Taipei, Taiwan Province Province, the best cheesecake shop is located in Tianmu.
The origin of brownie cake
Chocolate Brownies, also known as Brownies, Walnut Brownies or Boston Brownies. It is a small cake cut into slices, rich in layers and baked with a lot of dark chocolate. It is named Brownie because of its luxurious brown color.
There is a very interesting story about the origin of Brownie. It is said that a fat black mammy wore an apron and baked a soft and delicious chocolate cake in the kitchen. As a result, she forgot to send the cream first, but the unexpected failure, the cake that should have been thrown away, the old mother tasted it but it was delicious. Brownie cake, a "lovely mistake", has become the most representative cake in American families.
Italian dessert-the origin of tiramisu
There is a warm story about the origin of Tiramisu: during World War II, an Italian soldier went to war, but there was almost nothing at home. In order to prepare dry food for him, his beloved wife made all the biscuits and bread that could be eaten at home into cakes called Tiramisu. Whenever a soldier eats Tiramisu on the battlefield, he will think of his home and his beloved family.
Tiramisu, Tiramisu, Italian means "take me away", taking away not only food, but also love and happiness.
The Origin of Austrian Dessert-Sharjah Cake
Sand cake originated from 1832. Franz, the chef of the prince. Sacher developed a sweet chocolate trap, which was deeply loved by the royal family. Later, Sache Ho-te, a sand restaurant frequented by nobles at that time, also used sand cakes as its signature snack. However, what is its exclusive secret recipe is still an endless dessert lawsuit. Demel, a pastry shop, claimed to have spent a large sum of money on the original cookbooks provided by Shajia family members, while Shajia restaurant insisted that only their cakes respected the traditional tastes of the founders. Although the lawsuit has not been solved, the unique combination of chocolate cake and apricot peach has already spread all over the world, and it has been constantly multiplied and created by tens of thousands of pastry chefs, becoming a national treasure dessert representing Austria.
Austrian dessert-the origin of stolen cakes.
For hundreds of years, the modeling is simple, the practice is complex, and the proportion of materials is chaotic. Only a few old pastry chefs can do it. In Australia, the value of Stallone cake is rare, and its value is not less than that of sand cake. Chaonuo Cake Shop is the mysterious and delicious source of Stallone Cake. It is said that its taste and shape have never changed since19th century, and it is all handmade, except that its ingredients are almonds, hazelnuts, sugar, chocolate and Austria's unique Oblaten. As for the recipe and practice, only two chefs in Chaonuo Cake Shop know about it. Stallone cake is crisp, sweet and charming, and has a long aftertaste. Those who are not sweet should not eat more. Even in Chaonuo old shop, Stallone's annual output is only 1300.
The origin of Japanese dessert Castella cake.
/kloc-in the 0 th and 7 th centuries, Portuguese missionaries and businessmen crossed the ocean to Nagasaki. The things they brought, such as glass, tobacco, bread, etc., are all novel to the local people. In order to establish mutual friendship, these foreigners thought of some ways to please the locals. Missionaries distributed wine to nobles and desserts to civilians, hoping to spread Christianity. Businessmen make cakes in large quantities and distribute them to people in the street. At that time, a cake made of sugar, eggs and flour was very popular. The Japanese asked about the dessert in the Kingdom of Castela. As a result, the Japanese mistakenly passed Castella as the name of dessert, which is the origin of Castella.
Saha cake, a famous French product (France)
It is said that it was invented in 1832 by French "Saha", a full-time chef of Australian diplomats in France, at the age of 16. Because the diplomat "Mace Thirny" likes sweets, he tastes different desserts every day. So, "Saha" tried to combine many ingredients that don't usually make snacks, and finally completed this "Saha cake". Later, in 1876, Louis Saha's son Edward founded Louis Saha Hotel, which was jointly developed with his wife Anna and became one of the famous cakes in France.
Christmas log, New Year's snack-(France)
"Yule is actually the old name of Christmas, from vikings to winter celebrations until today. The traditional Christmas in Britain is to chop wood in the Woods and drag it back to the fireplace. It burns from Christmas Eve 12 days. This kind of wood is called Yule Logue!
It was originally a necessary holiday snack for French people to celebrate Christmas. On Christmas Eve, no matter where the French work, vagrants will hurry back to their hometown for reunion. Just like China people, they have the habit of family reunion and vigil. When staying up until midnight, the family usually gathers in front of the heater, eating wooden cakes with coffee or black tea, on the one hand, driving away the chill, on the other hand, taking the opportunity to contact the family's feelings.
——BostonCreamPie, a famous school in the newspaper (America)
Actually, it's not a pie, it's a sponge cake (muffin)
The origin of this name is said to be in 1855. A newspaper in new york published a cookbook named puddingpiecake, which did not contain chocolate syrup peculiar to Boston today. Then 1856, a man named Harvey D.Parker opened a ParkerHouse restaurant in Boston with a chocolate syrup pudding pie cake on the menu. It is said that this is us.
The birth of the middle ages-souffle)-(France)
Why do people invent this kind of Shu Lifu that makes people feel that they have never eaten anything after eating it? This is closely related to the insatiable social atmosphere at that time. At that time, rich people ate several times as much as they worked. It is often a dinner for three or four people, and there are ten or twenty dishes to eat. Finally, the guest only moved the knife and fork and tasted it. After the banquet, I only heard hiccups one after another all afternoon. This social phenomenon of "afternoon burping" lasted for half a century, until the people who caused social cleansing came to an end. "Even nothingness" could not escape materialization and was doomed to collapse due to excessive expansion. 」。
In order to correct the corrupt diet, chefs specially use tasteless and weightless protein to turn it into this kind of empty food; However, chefs are afraid of over-inflated nihilism, and as predicted, they will eventually collapse, so they try their best to keep Shu Fu Li elegant and fluffy before serving it to guests.
Soft flavor -chifon cake)- (USA)
Cakes generally include sponge cake/sponge cake and Qifeng cake/Qifeng cake. Chiffon actually refers to a kind of cloth, similar to real silk T-silk, but not as difficult to maintain as real silk. This is Georgette. This kind of cake is called ChiffonCake because of its soft taste and texture. Sponge cakes rely entirely on eggs (whole eggs or divided eggs) to form pores in the cake tissue. A typical sponge cake contains only eggs, flour and sugar. The taste is tight and dense, and it is easy to choke when eating (relatively Qifeng).
Wind cake is an improved sponge method, which was invented by an American chef. In addition to eggs, flour and sugar, vegetable oil and water are added (to increase tissue humidity and make the taste fluffy and moist), but because the batter is wet and not easy to swell, BP should be added to help the batter foam and swell. Because Qifeng batter is wet, you need to climb the baking mold wall when baking, otherwise the batter will not grow high, the cake will be flat, the structure will be a little hard and there will be no pores.
Evergreen products-Rolls-Royce Switzerland-(Switzerland)
It is a sponge cake, which was first introduced to America from Switzerland. In 1950s, in order to promote American flour in Taiwan Province Province, the American Wheat Association vigorously promoted this kind of cake to Taiwan Province Province. Because of its long promotion time, it is a very common cake in Taiwan Province Province. Almost every West Point bakery must have an evergreen product. It is not a Swiss specialty, but it was first discovered in Switzerland by people from Taiwan Province province.