Boston cream pie
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Course | Dessert |
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Place of origin | Boston, Massachusetts |
Region or state | New England |
Serving temperature | Room temperature or chilled |
Main ingredients | Sponge cake, custard, chocolate glaze |
A Boston cream pie is a
History
It is said to have been created in 1856 by Armenian-French chef Mossburg Sanzian at the Parker House Hotel in Boston.[3] A direct descendant of earlier cakes known as American pudding-cake pie and Washington pie, the dessert was referred to as chocolate cream pie, Parker House chocolate cream pie, and finally Boston cream pie on Parker House's menus. The cake consisted of two layers of French butter sponge cake filled with thick custard and brushed with a rum syrup; its side was coated with the same custard overlaid with toasted sliced almonds, and the top coated with chocolate fondant.[4] While other custard cakes may have existed at that time, baking chocolate as a coating was a new process, making it unique and a popular choice on the menu.[2]
The name "chocolate cream pie" first appeared in the 1872 Methodist Almanac.[2] An early printed use of the term "Boston cream pie" occurred in the Granite Iron Ware Cook Book, printed in 1878.[5] The earliest known recipe for the modern variant was printed in Miss Parloa's Kitchen Companion in 1887 as "chocolate cream pie".[5]
Boston cream pie is the official dessert of Massachusetts, declared as such on December 12, 1996.[6]
Variations
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The Taiwanese version of the Boston cream pie is a chiffon cake which does not include chocolate.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ "Although It Is Called A Boston Cream Pie, It Is In Fact A Cake, And Not A Pie". South Florida Reporter. October 23, 2020. Retrieved June 7, 2021.
- ^ OCLC 934884678.
- ISBN 9781577151531.
- Archive.org.
- ^ ISBN 9780199313624.
- ^ "Massachusetts Facts". Citizen Information Service, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. p. 6. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
- ^ "Massachusetts State Donut or Desert Emblem: Boston Cream Donut".
Further reading
- Forbes, Esther & Griffin, Arthur (1947). The Boston Book. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Morrisey, Louise Lane & Sweeney, Marion Lane (1949). An Odd Volume of Cookery. Houghton Mifflin Company.
External links
- Stradley, Linda. "Boston Cream Pie Recipe and History". What's Cooking America. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
- "Has Boston Cream Pie Been Manipulated Beyond Recognition? It's a Question with Many Layers." Archived December 27, 2018, at the Wayback Machine by Kara Baskin, The Boston Globe
- "How Boston Cream Pie Changed Americans’ Relationship With Chocolate" by Atlas Obscura