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baked_Alaska

baked Alaska

English

A baked Alaska (left), and a bombe Alaska (right), a variety of baked Alaska which has been doused in alcohol and flambéed

Noun

baked Alaska ‎(plural baked Alaskas)

  1. A dessert consisting of ice cream encased in cake and meringue and briefly baked. [from 19th c.]

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  1. ↑ Charles Ranhofer (1894), “(3538). ALASKA, FLORIDA (Alaska, Florida).”, in The Epicurean. A Complete Treatise of Analytical and Practical Studies of the Culinary Art including Table and Wine Service, how to Prepare and Cook Dishes, and Index for Marketing, A Great Variety of Bills of Fare for Breakfasts, Luncheons, Dinners, Suppers, Ambigus, Buffets, etc., and a Selection of Interesting Bills of Fare of Delmonico's from 1862 to 1894. Making a Franco-American Culinary Encyclopedia. [...] Illustrated with 800 Plates, 1st edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Ranhofer, publisher, 682 West End Avenue, OCLC 944768, page 1007.

Etymology

Said to have been coined by Charles Ranhofer (1836–1899), the French-American chef de cuisine of Delmonico’s, a restaurant in New York City, New York, United States, to mark the latter’s purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire on 30 March 1867. However, there is no contemporary report of this fact, and in his book The Epicurean (1894) Ranhofer referred to the dish, versions of which pre-dated the Alaska Purchase, as an “Alaska, Florida”,[1] apparently because of the contrast between its cold and hot elements. The dish appears to have been first called an Alaska or baked Alaska some time after the Alaska Purchase.

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