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Bavarian cream or
Crème bavaroise or simply
Bavaroisis a classic
dessert, a Swiss invention according to the French, but one that was included in the repertory of
Marie-Antoine Carême, who is sometimes credited with it. It was named in the early nineteenth century for
Bavaria or, perhaps more likely in the history of
haute cuisine, for a particularly distinguished visiting Bavarian, such as a
Wittelsbach.
Escoffier declared that
Bavarois would be more properly
Moscovite, owing to its preparation, in the days before mechanical refrigeration, by being made in a "hermetically-sealed" mould that was plunged into salted crushed ice to set— hence "Muscovite". At the twenty-first century dinner table, one can scarcely imagine the impression made in the mid-nineteenth century by an unmoulded Bavarian cream presented at a summertime
dinner party.
Bavarian cream is similar to
flour- or
cornstarch-thickened
crème pâtissière but thickened with
gelatin instead and flavoured with
liqueur. It is lightened with whipped cream when on the edge of setting up, before being moulded, for a true Bavarian cream is usually filled into a fluted mould, chilled until firm, then turned out onto a serving plate. By coating a chilled mould first with a fruit gelatin, a glazed effect can be produced. Imperfections in the unmoulding are disguised with strategically-placed fluted piping of
crème Chantilly. In America, it isn't uncommon to serve Bavarian cream directly from the bowl it has been chilled in, similar to a French
mousse. In this informal presentation, Escoffier recommended the Bavarian cream be made in a "deep silver dish which is then surrounded with crushed ice".
It may be served with a fruit sauce or a
raspberry or
apricot purée or used to fill elaborate
charlottes.
Though it doesn't pipe smoothly because of its gelatin, it could substitute at a pinch for
crème pâtissière as a filling for
doughnuts. The American "Bavarian Cream doughnuts" are actually filled with a version of a crème pâtissière, causing local linguistic confusion. True Bavarian creams in fact did first appear in the US in Boston Cooking School cookbooks, by Mrs D.A. Lincoln, 1884, and by
Fannie Merritt Farmer, 1896: Fannie Farmer already offers a "Quick Bavarian Cream", the path of the future.
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