#flambeed

“Baked Alaska is a dessert of ice cream surrounded by insulating cake and/or meringue, which can then be heated or even flambéed and brought to the table as a hot dessert that is cold inside. The general idea seems to have been developed by chefs in the eighteenth century and linked to two Americans at the turn of the nineteenth century. Thomas Jefferson is supposed to have served an ice cream dessert encased in hot pastry in 1802, while Count Rumford, an American Tory who had moved to Europe, supposedly developed an “omelette surprise” using meringue in Monaco in 1804.” -- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)

A dramatic Greek appetizer or meze made with Greek cheese, often kefalotyri or kefalograviera, which is floured, fried and then flambeed with ouzo. Served with fresh lemon juice, this is the perfect Greek starter. Growing up in a Greek home it was not unusual for things to get dramatic! Conversations were loud, crowds always gathered, and the kitchen was a flurry of activity. What some might…

easy rum flambéed pineapple tart tartin

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