Baked Alaska Florida" in 1894, apparently referring to the contrast between its cold and hot elements. The dish is also known as an "omelette à la norvégienne" or "Norwegian omelette", which similarly refers to the cold climate of Norway. The dish is made of ice cream placed in a pie dish lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and topped with meringue. The entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven for a brief time, long enough to firm and caramelize the meringue. In 1969, the recently invented microwave oven enabled Hungarian gastrophysicist Nicholas Kurti to produce a
Sì (dessert) Sì (dessert) Sì (pronounced , , transcribed as sì in Foochow Romanized) is a traditional spherical dessert made from glutinous rice, eaten in celebration of the Winter Solstice festival in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. It is usually produced without filling, in contrast to the tangyuan. The sì is made by grinding glutinous rice into a powder, pressing the powder until almost dry, and then rolling the dry powder into a spherical shape, and finally add fried (even burnt) soybean powder mixed with brown sugar onto the glutinous rice sphere. The pronunciation of 𥻵 is the same as 時 (time, fortune)