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Desserts & Sweet Bites
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Did You Know?
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Dessert is a course that
typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food
but sometimes of a strongly flavored one, such as some cheeses. The
word comes from the French language as dessert and this from Old French
desservir, "to clear the table" and "to serve." Common desserts include
cakes, cookies, fruits, pastries, ice cream, and candies.
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An
entremet (or entremets, from Old French, literally meaning "between
servings") is in modern French cuisine a small dish served between
courses or simply a dessert. Originally it was an elaborate form of
entertainment dish common among the nobility and upper middle class in
Western Europe during the later part of the Middle Ages and the early
modern period. An entremet marked the end of a serving of courses and
could be anything from a simple frumenty (a type of wheat porridge)
that was brightly colored and flavored with exotic and expensive spices
to elaborate models of castles complete with wine fountains, musicians,
and food modeled into allegorical scenes. By end of the Middle Ages, it
had evolved almost entirely into dinner entertainment in the form of
inedible ornaments or acted performances, often packed with symbolism
of power and regality. In English it was more commonly known as a
subtlety (also sotelty or soteltie) and did not include acted
entertainment.
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