ProbableNamed from the place
baked Alaska
noun · first attested 1890s
A hot dessert named for a frozen territory the United States had just bought.
A dessert of ice cream on a cake base, covered in meringue and baked briefly so the outside browns while the inside stays frozen.
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- Named from the place
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- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 1890s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Alaska
- In English
baked Alaska
The name is usually credited to Delmonico's in New York, marking the 1867 purchase of Alaska, though the printed name only surfaces decades afterward. Meringue-over-ice-cream dishes were already circulating in Europe under other names, so the recipe is older than its geography.
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