Posted on 10/23/2024 6:36:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
NATIONAL BOSTON CREAM PIE DAY
National Boston Cream Pie Day serves up a delicious dessert on October 23rd each year. Pie lovers, move along. Cake lovers, pull up a chair. Let's celebrate the cake with an identity crisis! Boston Cream Pie is a chocolate frosted, custard-filled cake that is loved by millions.
#BostonCreamPieDay
In 1856, at Boston’s Parker House Hotel, French chef Monsieur Augustine Francois Anezin created this pudding and cake combination.
The decadent cake comprises two layers of sponge cake filled with vanilla-flavored custard or creme patisserie. The cake is then topped with a chocolate glaze, such as a ganache or sometimes powdered sugar and a cherry.
In 1996, Massachusetts declared the Boston Cream Pie as their official dessert.
HOW TO OBSERVE BOSTON CREAM PIE DAY
Celebrate dessert with a slice of homemade Boston Creme Pie made from one of the following recipes. Be sure to invite someone to share it with you and make it a real celebration. Don't want to bake? Visit your favorite bakery and give them a shout-out while you're there. Take a selfie and share it on social media.
RECIPE LINKS AT SITE:
Boston Cream Pie
Outrageous Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes
Boston Cream Poke Cake
Use #BostonCreamPieDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL BOSTON CREAM PIE DAY HISTORY
National Day Calendar® continues researching the origins of this dessert holiday.
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Notable Birthdays for October 23
Samuel More (1762-1843) - Engineer who was a pioneer in steamships.
John Russell Bartlett (1805-1886) - U.S. Boundary Commissioner responsible for surveying the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico.
Isaac B. Woodbury (1819-1858) - Composer of Dulcimer: Or the New York Collection of Sacred Music.
Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965) - U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Blanchan De Graff Doubleday (1865-1918) - Author and publisher of wild flowers and birds under the name Neltje Blanchan.
John Heisman (1869-1936) - Pioneer in early college football and the person the Heisman Trophy Award is named after.
William D. Coolidge (1873-1975) -Inventor of the modern x-ray tube.
Gilbert N. Lewis (1875-1946) - Chemist who discovered the covalent bond using his own concept (Lewis dot structure) of electron pairs.
Speckled Red (1892-1973) - Blues and boogie-woogie piano player known for his recordings The Dirty Dozen.
Milton "Gummo" Marx (1892-1977) - Comedian with the duo Marx Brothers.
Lilyan Tashman (1896-1934) - Silent film actress.
Luther Evans (1902-1981) - Political scientist.
Gertrude Ederle (1905-2003) - First female swimmer to swim the English Channel.
Zellig Harris (1909-1992) - Linguist known for his work in structural linguistics and the discovery of transformational structure in language.
Hayden Rorke (1910-1987) - Actor known for his character Colonel Alfred E. Bellows in I Dream of Genie.
Augusta Dabney (1918-2008) - Soap opera actress known for her role as Isabelle Alden on the daytime series Loving.
James Daly (1918-1978) - Actor who played Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series Medical Center.
Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) - Architect who designed the Yale Art and Architecture Building.
Bob Montana (1920-1975) - Illustrator and creator of Archie Comics.
Coleen Gray (1922-2015) - Actress known for her roles in Nightmare Alley and Red River.
Ned Rorem (1923-2022) - Composer said to be one of the leading composers of all time.
Frank Sutton (1923-1974) - Actor who played Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter on Gomer Pyle.
Jim Bunning (1931-2017) - Professional baseball player turned politician.
Carol Fran (1933-2021) - Successful blues singer.
JacSue Kehoe (1935-2019) - Neuroscientist who discovered a neurotransmitter can have multiple types of receptors.
Philip Kaufman (1936-Still Living) - Film director of Rising Sun and The Right Stuff.
Johnny Carroll (1937-1955) - Rockabilly singer of Corrine, Corrina and Run Come See.
Ellie Greenwich (1940-2009) - Co-songwriter of Da Doo Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me, and Leader of the Pack.
Brian Ross (1948-Still Living) - Investigative journalist.
Nick Tosches (1949-2019) - Author of Hellfire, the biography about Jerry Lee Lewis.
David Wills (1951-Still Living) - Country music songwriter of From Barrooms to Bedrooms.
Darrell Pace (1956-Still Living) - Olympic archer.
Dwight Yoakam (1956-Still Living) - Country music singer Little Ways, Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose, and Ain't That Lonely Yet.
Michael Eric Dyson (1958-Still Living) - Activist and author of Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X.
Wayne Rainey (1960-Still Living) - World champion motorcycle racer.
Eddy Cue (1964-Still Living) - Computer scientist and Senior VP of Services for Apple.
Robert Trujillo (1964-Still Living) - Bassist for the hard rock band Metallica.
Augusten Burroughs (1965-Still Living) - Author of Running with Scissors.
Al Leiter (1965-Still Living) - Former MLB baseball player and current sportscaster.
Dale Crover (1967-Still Living) - Former drummer of the band Nirvana.
Chris Horner (1971-Still Living) - Professional road racing cyclist.
Tiffeny Milbrett (1972-Still Living) - Former professional soccer player.
Meghan McCain (1984-Still Living) - Journalist, author, and daughter to the late John McCain.
Leah Van Dale (1987-Still Living) - WWE female wrestler named Carmella in the ring.
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Memorable Events for October 23
1850 - The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, MA.
1864 - Union beats confederate soldiers just west of the Mississippi (Battle of Westport).
1684 - English King Charles II revokes the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter trading with other countries.
1760 - First Jewish prayer books printed.
1819 - The first ship sails through the Erie Canal to Utica.
1910 - The first woman (Blanche Scott) flies at a public event at Fort Wayne, IN.
1915 -The first National Horseshoe Tournament is held at Kellerton, IA.
1923 - Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a rival Giants uniform.
1923 - Sebastian Hinton receives a patent for a playground climbing structure known monkey bars.
1932 - The radio comedy program The Fred Allen Show airs.
1933 - The John Dillinger gang rob t$75,000 from the Central National Bank in Greencastle, IN.
1934 - Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen set the record for their hot air balloon flying 10.9 miles over Lake Erie.
1941 - Dumbo is released by Walt Disney.
1942 - U.S. Army Air Forces bomber strikes an American Airlines DC-3 airliner in California, killing 12 passengers and the crew.
1945 - Jackie Robinson signs contract with Montreal Royals, the minor league team of Brooklyn Dodgers.
1947 - NAACP submits a petition on racism to the UN entitled An Appeal to the World.
1956 - First video recording on magnetic tape televised across the country.
1964 - Champion boxer Joe Frazier beats German Hans Huber for the Olympic heavyweight gold medal.
1973 - President Nixon turns over White House tape recordings to the judge.
1982 - Authorities engage in a gun fight with members of a religious cult in Arizona, leaving 2 people dead and dozens injured.
1984 - The Ethiopian famine is aired on NBC via the BBC.
1991 - Justice Clarence Thomas is sworn in as a United States Supreme Court Justice.
1991 - Two women commit suicide using Dr, Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine.
1997 - San Francisco experiences a power blackout at 6:11 a.m. as a result of to sabotage.
2001 - The iPod is released by Apple.
2007 - Astronaut Pamela Melroy becomes the second female space shuttle commander.
2019 - Google claims it has achieved Quantum Supremacy.
2023 - New Orleans experiences a super fog causing a pile-up of 158 vehicles during commute.
I was recently in Boston and went to Parker House to have BCP where it originated. Much disappointed. I was served a single, mini pie, and the proportion of sponge to cream was way off. I think a mini is harder to pull off than a full size pie. I think a slice from the latter would have been much better
I’ll pass....going for the NY Cheese Cake!!
Just bought one of these babies yesterday!
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Boston Cream Pies are also ballistically efficient, with enough mass when thrown to be on target!
Boston Cream Pie is my favorite and I haven’t made one since the mid 70s.
For some reason BCP has been on my mind for a couple of years but every time I look at recipes I put it off, recently I decided to get my feet wet by just making the easiest one possible with cake mix and instant pudding as an ice breaker to see if it is worth making a classier one.
I am a FOOL for custard. Just leave me alone with a bowl of it and a big spoon, lol.
That could easily be my last meal. I would die happy.
Dunkin has great Boston Crème Pie Donuts.
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