HW:5 Chapter 2

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.