Sky High Chocolate Mousse Pie
Posted on 04/03/2017 1:33:38 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
Mousse is prepared by beating eggs or cream or both to a frothy, airy consistency and then folding the ingredients together to create a light, creamy delight.
While mousse can be either savory or sweet, for this day we will focus on that all time favorite, chocolate.
The words mousse and chocolate are derived from the French language, so it isn’t difficult to believe France is where to begin. While we have no exact point in time when this might have been, we do know chocolate was introduced to the French around the year 1615, and they fell in love.
Then a century later the French developed a method for making mousse. Savory lead the way, but it couldn’t have been long before the same approach was applied to chocolate.
In the United States, an advertisement in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1887 included classes on how to make chocolate mousse offered by a Miss Parloa. She also advised how to make potato soup, larded grouse, potato timbale and corn muffins.
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Don’t laugh, he bit my sister ;)
When I was a teenager, I used to see a lot of pickup trucks sporting this novelty license plate. I always thought it just a sly reference to cunning linguistics, but that *was* around the time that my brain was being pickled in hormones - my perception at the time was colored by that fact, no doubt. Perhaps I should post a question about it on some feminist forum.
Michelle O’s favorite day?
That was always my take on it too.
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