CHAPTER
2
DISCUSSION
What are the differences of Filipino desserts from Western
desserts?
Now a days, many people knows that the dessert is defined
as a sweet course only that serves after a heavy meal like ice creams, fruits,
candies and other sweet food. But in western cultures biscuits and pies known
as a dessert. Here in Philippines our desserts are “kakanins” so here are the
differences between the Filipino desserts from Western desserts.
I. Definition and Types of Desserts
Definitions
of desserts include different kinds of sweet foods that people eat after a
heavy meal .Desserts defined as the usually sweet course that
concludes a meal. The food that composes the dessert course includes but is not
limited to sweet foods. There is a wide variety of desserts. In western
cultures now including (cakes, cookies, biscuits ,gelatins ,pastries,
ice-cream, pies, pudding, and candies). Fruit is also
commonly found in dessert courses because of its natural sweetness.
There are different types of
desserts, baked desserts, fried desserts, frozen desserts, chilled desserts.
Baked desserts are made by putting the ingredients in a hot oven. Baked desserts include cakes, muffins and cookies.
Second, fried desserts are made using a cooking process called deep frying. To deep-fry food, a large pot
filled with oil is heated, and then the food is placed into the pot. Deep-fried
desserts include doughnuts. Third the frozen desserts are made by
blending the ingredients in a freezer. Frozen desserts include ice
cream and milk shakes and last the frozen dessert this is the popular
among of all the types of dessert because chilled dessert made without
using the oven or the freezer. Trifle is
an English dessert made by soaking ladyfinger biscuits in sherry, covering them with whipped cream, and then letting it chill
in the refrigerator. Some types of instant
pudding and instant mousse desserts
can be made without cooking; a person simply mixes the instant pudding powder
with milk and chills it in the refrigerator.
II. Filipino Desserts
The
Philippines is best known for its numerous mouth watering desserts. A majority
of desserts are very sweet, but one bite of these desserts is like a taste of
heaven. The following names of popular desserts will let you find out on your
own what they are made of. These are the Halo-halo, leche flan, turon, suman,
ube, bibingka, buko pandan, yema, cuchinta, ice-cream macapuno and many many
more they are the desserts that very popular here in the Philippines.
The common ingredients
that they used are sticky rice and of course sugar to make it sweeter, flour
and different kind of fruits like banana. Filipino desserts matched with the
occasion to know what dessert is perfect for the occasion or in weather. For
example the best and most popular dessert in summer is Halo-halo because apart
from spending too much money to eat a dessert to make you feel cooler and
refresh halo-halo is made up of a fruit that contains protein, potassium and
fibers. You make satisfied yourself plus you eat healthy without hesitating
that you can be fat by eating a dessert. Because in other countries their
desserts is not healthy like cakes it contains many sugar and it depends on
what ingredients that the maker put it there, for example chocolate it compose
a lot of carbohyrdrates that makes people fat if it has no control in eating
that kind of dessert.
III. Western Desserts
As I said the western desserts is puddings and cakes but not all their desserts
is process food to make it sweeter the fruit is included as a dessert in
western culture because of the natural sweetness. In Italy different desserts
were born for different reasons, some dry cookie-like desserts were thought to
be made for sailors who needed long lasting food items to take on their
voyages. Other more elaborate desserts were created to commemorate important
historic events or holidays in Italy. Many of these recipes have been passed
down through families for generations. Great care is taken to preserve their
traditional characteristics.
As you maybe know as I recalled a few
times in reading information, Italy has many differences from region to region.
These differences deal with language or dialects, traditions, way of living, of
thinking, and of course, food. One of the most popular desserts in Italy is
tiramisu. Tiramisu is one of the best-known and best-loved Italian
deserts. Somewhat surprising for such a famous recipe, it can only be traced
back to about 1970, when it apparently was developed in the northern Italian
The
name actually means "pick me up", and with lots of sugar and the
strong Espresso coffee, that is just what it does. The raw egg yolk is also
supposed to help people recover from certain strenuous honeymoon activity.
I think the stunning taste comes from the creamy, sweet Mascarpone creme, and
the slightly bitter combination of coffee and real cocoa powder which
contains theobromine, supposed to make people happy.
Filipino desserts vs. Western Dessert
Filipino
dessert is more on natural resources than western dessert because most of the
ingredients that western culture used are processed like the mascarpone crème
it is an Italian triple cream dessert that usually found in tiramisu we know
that cheese is made up of cow milk but before it come up as a cheese it had
goes to the process. But in Filipino desserts they usually use a natural like
fresh milk, eggs and fresh fruits.
