This meringue pastry is named for the ballerina Pavlova.
Our friends always stop at this quaint bakery when they visit Estonia and the shopkeepers know them and exactly what they are coming in to buy! We cut this one in 4 for a divine taste!
Those are delicious cranberries on top!
Then the next week we were back in Finland at dinner with other friends and she made this family sized version for dessert. Lucky us!
It too was delectable and she served it withfresh Finnish strawberries naturally sweet because they have been kissed by the midnight sun!
I've been wanting to try making it myself ever since we returned and got the chance when I was asked to make the refreshments for our ward's Relief Society meeting. It was easier than I thought, even though you make the meringue part the night before.
I chose to put an assortment of fruit and berries on top.
I used raspberries, blackberries, blueberries and kiwi fruit. You may get the recipe here.
2 comments:
You shouldn't refer to pavlova as a pastry -it is an Australian dessert and certainly not pastry.
After this anonymous post I looked it up.
Pavlova (pav-LOH-vuh) - The Pavlova consists a base made of a meringue crust topped with whipped cream and fresh fruits such as kiwis (the fruit!), strawberries, etc. It is considered a fresh fruit pie with a meringue crust.
No one knows who first created the Pavlova. But the name and the recipes first began appearing soon after Russian prima ballerina, Anna Matveyevna Pavlova (1881-1931), toured both Australia and New Zealand in 1926 and Australia again in 1929. Anna Pavlova was considered the greatest ballerina of her time and her visit to New Zealand has been described as "the chief event of 1926." It was said "She does not dance; she soars as though on wings." From this you get the sense that this is a light, airy dessert.
There is a conflict between both Australia and New Zealand. While it has been suggested this dessert was created in New Zealand, it has also become recognized as a popular Australian dish. Both countries claim to have invented this dessert and claim it as their national dish.
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