21/06/2021
⚡️HISTORY OF DESSERTS🍫🍪❤️🔥🎂🍰
The word dessert is derived from the French word desservir, which translates to “to clear the table.” This origin is apt, considering that the first use of desserts was to wash down the aftertaste of a large meal with something sweet.
Desserts in history, such as in the middle ages, revolved more around fruity sweet foods such as jellies and wafers mixed with exotic fruits, nuts, and butter. Indeed, the custard is known to be one of the first desserts ever eaten in the middle ages. The next few reported desserts include apple pies in 1381 and gingerbread in the 1400s.
Up until the 17th century, desserts were meshed together with savory dishes and were used as nothing more than palate cleansers. However, the seventeenth century saw the advent of dessert cookbooks. This spread in popularity of desserts is owed to the vast sugar plantations in the New World that allowed sugar costs to go down. With reduced sugar prices, sugar could be used abundantly for sweet foods instead of being relegated to a rare flavoring.
The 17th century also saw the move of having desserts solely reserved for the end of meals as opposed to having several small dessert courses as palate cleansers throughout. Custards eventually evolved into sweet puddings in the 19th century, and then the industrial revolution brought forward the mass production of sweet foods such as cakes.
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