Its so strange to me seeing cakes in a dessert thread.
badjak
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Yes! I was thinking the same
Slight difference in terminology and descriptive use IMO. One is a course following a meal the other is a type of food in the general sweet food category. In Europe dessert is a course that follows meals by definition and
cakes/pastries/breads are often a different category. Americans often classify a dessert as pretty much any sweet food item, often served after a meal but that can be eaten any time of the day including after a meal.
Barriehie
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Or before it...Slight difference in terminology and descriptive use IMO. One is a course following a meal the other is a type of food in the general sweet food category. In Europe dessert is a course that follows meals by definition and
cakes/pastries/breads are often a different category. Americans often classify a dessert as pretty much any sweet food item, often served after a meal but that can be eaten any time of the day including after a meal.
"What a wonderful list of desserts! In our bakery, we see that chocolate layer cake and rice pudding are timeless classics. Which dessert is always present at your celebrations?"
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We frequently had leftover fruit pie (like apple, peach, or cherry) as part of breakfast. Not uncommon here at all.Breakfast
SoCalZone10
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Make my regular breakfast seems so boring, steel oats with milk.
SoCalZone10
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I think American people are generally lazy, maybe that’s why, hahaSlight difference in terminology and descriptive use IMO. One is a course following a meal the other is a type of food in the general sweet food category. In Europe dessert is a course that follows meals by definition and
cakes/pastries/breads are often a different category. Americans often classify a dessert as pretty much any sweet food item, often served after a meal but that can be eaten any time of the day including after a meal.
Slight difference in terminology and descriptive use IMO. One is a course following a meal the other is a type of food in the general sweet food category. In Europe dessert is a course that follows meals by definition and
cakes/pastries/breads are often a different category. Americans often classify a dessert as pretty much any sweet food item, often served after a meal but that can be eaten any time of the day including after a meal.
For information:
The word itself is defined in the Oxford Engish dictionary as something at the end of a meal. Its etymology is from the French:
"a service of fruits and sweets at the close of a meal," c. 1600, from French dessert (mid-16c.) "last course," literally "removal of what has been served," from desservir "clear the table," literally "un-serve," from des- "remove, undo" (see dis-) + Old French servir "to serve" (see serve (v.)). Dessert-wine is from 1733; dessert-spoon from 1776.
Yep - here cake is considered a dessert BUT not restricted to being eaten as a dessert in the way us Aussies and Brits think of a dessert.
badjak
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Hi Kelly,
Welcome.
Maybe a good idea to introduce yourself in the "new to cookingbites" thread and tell us a bit about your food likes & dislikes
