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
Jeeves Makes an Omelette Jeeves Makes an Omelette "Jeeves Makes an Omelette" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the "Star Weekly" in Canada in August 1958. The story was also included in the 1959 collection "A Few Quick Ones". This Jeeves story is a rewritten version of the Reggie Pepper story, "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good". The Reggie Pepper version was published in the UK in "The Strand Magazine" in May 1913, and in the US in "Pictorial Review" in April 1914 under the title