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Café liégeois is a French cold dessert made from lightly sweetened
Café liégeois is a French cold dessert made from lightly sweetened coffee
Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulant, stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It is the most popular hot drink in the world.
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, coffee-flavoured ice cream
Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It may be made from milk or cream and is flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit such as str ...
and chantilly cream.
Refrigerate a large glass filled with the required amount of sweetened coffee, and add the ice cream and chantilly just prior to serving. Often crushed roasted coffee beans are put on top of the chantilly as decoration.
History
Contrary to its name, the café liégeois dessert did not originate in or aroundLiège
Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.
The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...
, Belgium. It was originally known in France as a ''café viennois'' (French for "Viennese Viennese may refer to:
* Vienna, the capital of Austria
* Viennese people, List of people from Vienna
* Viennese German, the German dialect spoken in Vienna
* Music of Vienna, musical styles in the city
* Viennese Waltz, genre of ballroom dance
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coffee"). However, during World War I, the Battle of Liège took place, which lasted much longer than the German army had anticipated it would, caused a delay in German advances towards France in 1914, allowing the French to reorganize better. In order to honor the city of Liège for its resistance, and because the city was shelled with guns from Austria (an ally of the invading Germany during the war), Paris' cafés started renaming the dessert from ''café viennois'' to ''café liégeois''. In Liège itself, the dessert continued to be known as café viennois for a while. and in Swiss French it remains only known as ''café viennois''.
See also
*List of coffee dishes
This is a list of coffee dishes, which includes foods that use coffee as a primary ingredient, and for which coffee is an essential ingredient. Coffee beverages are omitted from this list.
Coffee dishes
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References
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