Apr 03 2015
In cooking, there is an insanely delicious and fragrant dessert tiramisu, today this dessert is famous all over the world and is considered one of the most popular dishes. Of course, it may seem strange to you, but this culinary topic is not about this culinary work, because what kind of tiramisu can be created without savoiardi cookies. And now it's time to talk about it.
Once upon a time, in the city of Savoy, which today is part of France, this magnificent dessert was created. The name of the dessert itself comes from the name of the city, and the city comes from the Dukes of Savoy. So at the end of the fifteenth century, the French king visited the dukes and was treated to this delicious delicacy, Savoyardi cookies made a huge impression on the king. In those centuries, these cookies were already a traditional dish of the Savoyard ducal family.
Savoiardi is a biscuit cookie with a porous structure and an elongated shape. This cookie perfectly absorbs cream and any liquid. Savoiardi is one of the most important elements of the tiramisu dessert, thanks to which it has become famous all over the world.
Cookies are a delicacy for both adults and children, and the latter are much more numerous. Yes, of course, children's nutrition should be balanced, as they say here dommedika.com/phisiology/229.html, but sometimes you can treat your baby to such yummy. Even the children of the ducal family were fond of dipping cookies in milk or even just gnawing with small teeth. Adults loved to drink savoiardi with wine and coffee, every year confectioners invented more and more various desserts related to cookies. Savoyardi was soaked in liqueurs and syrups, fruits, berries and various sweet creams were added to it.
In the classic tiramisu recipe, savoiardi cookies should be laid out near the wall of the mold, and then the mold was poured with cream, a similar cooking recipe was used even in Russian charlotte, savoiardi was also laid out there. It’s a pity, but the recipe for this complex charlotte is almost forgotten, but tiramisu continues to be popular to this day.
Savoiardi cookies. like many dishes have their clones. Although the names of the dessert are different in different countries, the recipe itself does not change from this. In Holland, such cookies are called long fingers, and in England - ladies' fingers, the Portuguese and Brazilians call cookies champagne biscuits, and in South Africa it is customary to call boudoir cookies, twice-baked cookies are called savoiardi in Austria, and in Hungary the dessert is called children's biscuit.
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