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
Gelatin dessert decorative shapes to individual serving cups. Before gelatin became widely available as a commercial product, the most typical gelatin dessert was "calf's foot jelly". As the name indicates, this was made by extracting and purifying gelatin from the foot of a calf. This gelatin was used for savory dishes in aspic, or was mixed with fruit juice and sugar for a dessert. In the eighteenth century, gelatin from calf's feet, isinglass and hartshorn was colored blue with violet juice, yellow with saffron, red with cochineal and green with spinach and allowed to set in layers in small, narrow glasses. It