It all started with a flyer.

[HarleyDog]

(01-13-2019, 09:23 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: I think I might start going back to church if they start talking about Cleveland steamers and Boston Cream Pies.





Oh wait......maybe that’s what they were talking about at sodom and Gomorrah??? Shit, I didn’t even think of that. Oh crap!

Yeah, that would be bad. And what the hell is a Boston Cream Pie? I googled it but don’t get the reference?

Quote:Owners of the Parker House Hotel in Boston say that the Boston cream pie was first created at the hotel by French chef Augustine Francois Anezin, who led the hotel's culinary staff from 1865 to 1881. A direct descendant of earlier cakes known as American pudding-cake pie and Washington pie, the dessert was referred to as chocolate cream pie, Parker House chocolate cream pie, and finally Boston cream pie on Parker House's menus. The cake consisted of two layers of French butter sponge cake filled with thick custard and brushed with a rum syrup; its side was coated with the same custard overlaid with toasted sliced almonds, and the top coated with chocolate fondant.[3] While other custard cakes may have existed at that time, baking chocolate as a coating was a new process, making it unique and a popular choice on the menu.[2]

The name "chocolate cream pie" first appeared in the 1872 Methodist Almanac.[2] An early printed use of the term "Boston cream pie" occurred in the Granite Iron Ware Cook Book, printed in 1878.[4] The earliest known recipe for the modern variant was printed in Miss Parloa's Kitchen Companion in 1887 as "chocolate cream pie".[4]

Boston cream pie is the official dessert of Massachusetts, declared as such on December 12, 1996.[5]