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So… ice cream cake!
It’s great after a dinner party. Or after an afternoon tea or coffee (depending on which part of the world you live in!). During both summer and winter…
An excellent invention indeed.
By the way… who invented it?
The first ice-cream cake in the modern sense appeared for the first time on the menu of the “Albermarle hotel” in New York: the Bombe Napolitaine, at the modest cost of 30 cents (more or less $9 nowadays. Come to think of it, it was an affordable price!).
The wording in French was quite common practice in chic restaurants’ menus of the late 19th century.
I don’t it has more to do with “Naples” than simply the fact to have nuts as the main ingredient.
Viennetta has nothing to do with Vienna either.
Sorry, I’m digressing….
Truth to be told, there was a proto-ice cream cake long before that. Exactly in Renaissance Florence (that must have been a beautiful era…).
The inventor was Bernardo Buontalenti, an all-round polymath in the service of the Medici family.
Bernardo was, in fact, an architect, a chemist, an engineer and, occasionally, a pastry chef.
It was himself, according to legend, who invented the recipe for zuccotto, a “semifreddo”: in a special hemispherical container, previously covered with sponge cake cut into thin slices, it was added ricotta sweetened with orange peel, almonds, and candied fruit. Then the dough was soaked in alchermes (we ate the insects without complaining too much!), and finally placed on ice.
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