GeorgiaXplant
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Some sites say National Dessert Day is today, some say October 14, but they all say that October is National Dessert Month. Month! A whole month dedicated to desserts. Yay.
Since nobody can tell us with certainty whether the day is the 9th or the 14th, how about a special dessert on both days.
A dessert every day all month long, too. Yum.
When I was little, my mother used to make Floating Islands. It was a custard with meringue mounds floating in it. Each "island" had a dollop of jam in the middle, and the whole thing was baked in the oven.
Floating Islands was a dessert that made popular during the Depression, according to my mother, because it was cheap to make (especially if you lived on a farm or at least kept a cow or two and some chickens).
Some years after the war was over, we had maraschino cherries on the islands instead of jam. Back then, it was my favorite dessert. Now all desserts are my favorites!
Since nobody can tell us with certainty whether the day is the 9th or the 14th, how about a special dessert on both days.
A dessert every day all month long, too. Yum.
When I was little, my mother used to make Floating Islands. It was a custard with meringue mounds floating in it. Each "island" had a dollop of jam in the middle, and the whole thing was baked in the oven.
Floating Islands was a dessert that made popular during the Depression, according to my mother, because it was cheap to make (especially if you lived on a farm or at least kept a cow or two and some chickens).
Some years after the war was over, we had maraschino cherries on the islands instead of jam. Back then, it was my favorite dessert. Now all desserts are my favorites!
