Charlotte traditional

Charlotte traditional

A little history

It turns out that the simplest and most popular nowadays tea dessert is very interesting and fascinating story. Over the centuries it has changed, some components are replaced by others, but the name has always remained the same: “Charlotte”.

Prepare charlotte‘s power to not only experienced cooks, pastry chef, but also amateurs, even for a beginner.

Short article can be described as follows: “a dish made ​​of biscuit dough, which uses the filling of apples”.

In the old pre-war books found the old name of “Charlotte”, which is associated with the English word «Charlotte».

This dessert invented in the second half of the XVIII century for the wife of George III, Queen Charlotte, which protected the producers of apples. Initially, Charlotte did not need cooking, being a type of ancient bread pudding.

Pieces of bread soaked in syrup, which is used for cooking apples, pears and apricots. Then the pieces are stacked in layers, between which is placed a filling of fruit. Then covered with a layer of Charlotte, such as pieces of bread soaked in syrup. The preparation technology, by the way, is strikingly similar tiramisu: it is possible that Charlotte - an earlier version of the Italian delicacy.

The Oxford English Dictionary in 1796 said that Charlotte - a “pudding, which is used for making cookies or slices of sponge cake, and which is prepared in a special way. Can be eaten raw or roasted . The most famous of baked – apple”.

Studies show that in the XVIII century belonged to the species Charlotte pudding recipe fundamentally changed only after 20 years without the involvement of the French.

Marie Antoine Careme, the famous French chef, own recipe cooked Charlotte for the Russian Tsar Alexander I, who 19 March 1814 the winner went to Paris.

Modified charlotte so impressed the king that he wanted to take away Karem in Russia, the talented Cooks had long resisted. The dessert was called “Russian charlotte”.

Throughout the XIX century, this dessert was a hit cooking, along with the emigrants he was in the United States, where he received a new name: Charely roosh, which was transformed from Charlotte russe. In the New World, Charlotte got her own life, local chefs have repeatedly changed the composition of the dessert.

Today filling for charlotte may be very different, it may be not only fruit, but berries, jams, creams, mousses, jam.

Charlotte loved and appreciated throughout the world for its versatility to adapt to new conditions and simple, accessible ingredients. Especially valuable in the world of French charlotte, but in Russia the French chefs try to avoid prescription. Today buy or order the apple pie cooking in the department can be of any supermarket.

But there is another version of the emergence of charlotte. They say that one unknown chef burned with love for a poor girl, whose name was Charlotte and in her honor invented a new culinary masterpiece.

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