The History of Tiramisu Cake: Where and how this famous dessert was invented
Open an old Italian cookbook, browse through the index and surprise! No Tiramisu cake recipe. My first encounter with Tiramisu was in 1985. I was in Italy at that time: A friend of mine told me about this new cake recipe she got. She was so enthusiastic about it that I felt compelled to try it immediately. The taste was unbelievably good, as never I had tasted before. Since then I fell in love with this dessert.
Everybody knows by now that Tiramisu means pick-me-up in Italian, for the high energetic content (eggs and sugar) and the caffeine of the strong espresso coffee. There are many different stories about the origin of Tiramisu. It is a layered cake; therefore some people place its origin in Tuscany, where another famous layered Italian dessert is very popular. It is called Zuppa Inglese (English Soup). It is not English and it is not a soup. Instead is a simple cake of ladyfingers or sponge cake, soaked in alkermes liquor, and alternated layers of chocolate and egg custard.
Layered cakes have been around for long time. The brilliant idea in Tiramisu is not in the technique of...
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