Danish cuisine with desserts. Fruit that is traditionally associated with Danish cuisine: A combination of strawberries, red currants, black currants, blueberries and mulberries is known as "forest fruits" ("skovbær") and is a common component in tarts and marmalades. A popular dessert is "rødgrød", made from one or more kinds of berries or rhubarbs, boiled down to a red porridge. It is served with cream, sometimes milk. ""Rødgrød med fløde"" is often jokingly used by Danes as a shibboleth, as it contains the soft "d" several times, which most foreigners find difficult to pronounce. Bread is a very important part of the Danish
Dessert in ancient Mesopotamia and ancient India and other ancient civilizations. Dried fruit and honey were probably the first sweeteners used in most of the world, but the spread of sugarcane around the world was essential to the development of dessert. Sugarcane was grown and refined in India before 500 BCE and was crystallized, making it easy to transport, by 500 CE. Sugar and sugarcane were traded, making sugar available to Macedonia by 300 BCE and China by 600 CE. In the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and China, sugar has been a staple of cooking and desserts for over a