Charlotte dish history. Why is charlotte so called? Interesting facts from the life of biscuit pie with Charlotte apples

30.12.2021

Charlotte they are loved all over the world, but somewhere it is a pudding, somewhere a cold dessert, and in Russia it is a simple pie with apples. In this article I will tell you about the history of the origin of this many-sided sweetness, about her travels around the world, modifications and show step by step charlotte recipes with photos.

If you are looking for charlotte recipes with photos , then to save your time, you can follow the following links, where I prepared several types of charlotte

Charlotte- this is a simplified, folk, one might say affectionate derivative of "Charlotte". There are two versions of the origin of the name:
1) Most of the legends associated with the creation of charlotte indicate that it comes from the female name "Charlotte".
2) Some culinary scientists claim (based on English recipes of the 15th century and later, which is credible) that the name of the dessert charlotte comes from the English word charlyt, which means a dish made from beaten eggs, sugar and milk. In the 15th century, in England, by the way, a meat dish with the same name was also popular.

From various sources, I have collected almost all available versions of the origin of Charlotte, some of them are quite funny:

1) Be that as it may, but all modern types of charlotte come from the English pudding. I put this most realistic, in my opinion, version at the very beginning, so as not to confuse you. It was the British who came up with this dessert, and what we have now arose relatively recently. In foggy Albion, it seems that puddings are prepared from everything in the world. The recipe for English charlotte is very simple, although there are also many options. That first and simple charlotte was a cold dessert, the so-called "raw", when moistened slices of bread were stacked in layers, interspersed with chopped fruit.

The basis of both cold / raw and baked charlotte is moistened slices of bread or biscuit, which are laid out in a small form, filling the middle with stewed fruit. The most common and favorite option is apple charlotte. But slices of bread are moistened in everything, and in dissolved butter, and in syrup from under stewed fruits, and in wine, and in Russia they were very fond of moistening bread in a mixture of eggs and milk (Oh, how many centuries have passed, but we have still love to soak bread slices for toast in this egg-and-milk mixture).

2) This version is also English, but with royal participation.

In the 18th century, King George III ruled Great Britain; his wife, Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was the patroness of apple growers. It is believed that it was she who invented the Charlotte apple dessert. Of course, I did not search much, but I did not find any confirmation of this theory. Since this pudding existed before Queen Charlotte, I think she improved the recipe, but again, there is no information about this. But this version is beautiful, I do not argue.

3) Many people know the romantic legend about the creation of charlotte by a certain cook from the UK, who was hopelessly in love with a girl named Charlotte, for whom he created a wonderful apple dessert and named it after his beloved. Name, place of residence or work, but at least the time of life is lost forever, except for a dessert with a beautiful name. A doubtful version, but lives and lives for a long time.

4) The French chef Marie Antoine Karem, who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is often called the creator of charlotte. But he modified the charlotte, creating its new look, which is now called Charlotte Russe.

Illustration from Karem's book, he is on the right.

How it was: Antoine Carem is said to have modified charlotte in 1802, laying out the form not with bread, but with Savoyardi (“Ladyfingers”) biscuits, filling the middle with Bavarian cream with gelatin. Such charlotte was a cold dessert and was called "Paris charlotte". But in 1814, Russian Tsar Alexander I entered Paris as a winner, for whom Karem prepared his dessert. Since then, this cake has been known worldwide as "Charlotte Russe".

5) I saved the most beautiful and funny for you in the end.

At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, there were many German bakeries in Russia that prepared this dessert from the remains of bread and bakery products. The Russians laughed and said that the wives of the Germans save money and even make pies from crackers, and the wives themselves, summarizing, were called Charlottes behind their backs. The name Charlotte was very popular at the time and became a household name for any German woman living in Russia (Wikipedia).

6) In America, they believe that their national charlotte was invented by a certain chef from the city of Charlotte, which is somewhat doubtful, given the similarity with the English recipe. Most likely, charlotte was brought by immigrants. In the 19th century, a saying appeared in America that is said when speaking of a typically American phenomenon or object: "As American as apple pie" ("As American as an apple pie").

Charlotte evolution.

Although charlotte prepared with many fruits, the whole world fell in love with its apple version.
So, initially charlotte- this is a bread pudding, and its cold version, "raw". Those. slices of bread moistened with syrup from under boiled fruits were folded into the form in layers, these fruits were laid out between the bread, everything was covered with slices of bread.
After charlotte they began to bake, the bread was already soaked in melted butter or in wine, and even in a mixture of eggs and milk. But bread slices were already laid out not in layers, but along the bottom and along the walls of the form, filling the middle with stewed fruit.
Antoine Karem made charlotte an elegant and very delicate dessert, replacing bread with Savoyardi cookies and biscuit slices, and apple filling with Bavarian cream.
In Russia, in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the flow of foreign chefs, charlotte recipes, which adapted to our Russian realities, as a result of which rye bread charlotte was born. But Charlotte Russe did not take root. At the beginning of the 20th century in our country charlotte turned into a very simple sponge cake with apples, which every housewife knows. So many generations have grown up easy apple pie recipe. And although our women are so talented that there are a great many variations of the simplest pie at the moment, everyone still dearly loves the classic charlotte recipe, this is not even a recipe, but the proportions that everyone supplements to their liking: 1 glass of flour, 1 glass of sugar, 4 eggs, 0.5 teaspoon of soda, slaked with vinegar. Nowadays, baking soda is replaced with baking powder and vanilla sugar is added.

Despite the fact that Charlotte Russe did not take root in Russia, it is very popular in Europe and America. Speaking of America!
Charlotte came to this continent along with immigrants, but very quickly a legend was born that charlotte was invented by an American chef from a city called Charlotte. To the credit of the Americans, they somewhat modified the charlotte, but for the better, giving rise to a new and wonderful pie, making it truly national and their pride.

Now in the world three main types of charlotte are firmly established, from which all cooks are already dancing.
1. English charlotte- pudding, made from bread slices and apples, can be either "raw" or baked.
Of course, a great many recipes have accumulated over so many centuries, but for myself and for you, and for the sake of curiosity, I took a hundred-year-old recipe from the book "Practical Fundamentals of Culinary Art" by Pelageya Alexandrova-Ignatieva.

2. Charlotte Russe, born of the great Antoine Careme. This charlotte prepared by laying out the form with savoiardi cookies, Bavarian cream with gelatin is poured into the form. Nowadays, Bavarian cream is mixed with various berry and fruit purees or chocolate, and jelly, most often berry, is poured on top of the cake.
I prepared Karem charlotte according to a combined recipe with a Russian bias: I laid out the form with Savoyardi cookies dipped in a mixture of sugar syrup and rum (most often Grand Marnier liquor is used as alcohol), poured Bavarian cream with vanilla, and then added a layer of cranberry jelly on top.

3. Modern Russian charlotte with apples and, which is a classic biscuit with the addition of apples to the dough.

Until the middle of the last century, there was even a special detachable form for charlotte and it was called - charlotte! But, unfortunately, I could not find any photographs or illustrations of this unique form, although some books about it say that it is small, narrow and high with a removable bottom. Now, by the way, this is not tragic, since the stores are full of detachable forms of various sizes. But if you have a photo or illustration of a charlotte and you can send it, I will be extremely grateful to you.

I hope you enjoyed your time reading my article. If you have something to discuss on this topic, your thoughts and research on charlotte, additions to the material, explanations or refutation, please write to me. Share your knowledge :)

P.S. All pictures are taken from Google.

Charlotte is loved all over the world, but somewhere it's a pudding, somewhere it's a cold dessert, and in Russia it's a simple apple pie. In this article, I will tell you about the history of the origin of this many-sided sweets, about its travels around the world, modifications and show step-by-step charlotte recipes with photos.

From various sources, I have collected almost all available versions of the origin of Charlotte, some of them are quite funny:

2) This version is also English, but with royal participation.

In the 18th century, King George III ruled Great Britain; his wife, Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was the patroness of apple growers. It is believed that it was she who invented the Charlotte apple dessert. Of course, I did not search much, but I did not find any confirmation of this theory. Since this pudding existed before Queen Charlotte, I think she improved the recipe, but again, there is no information about this. But this version is beautiful, I do not argue.

3) Many people know the romantic legend about the creation of charlotte by a certain chef from the UK, who was hopelessly in love with a girl named Charlotte, for whom he created a wonderful apple dessert and named it after his beloved. Name, place of residence or work, but at least the time of life is lost forever, except for a dessert with a beautiful name. A doubtful version, but lives and lives for a long time.

4) The French chef Marie Antoine Karem, who lived at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, is often called the creator of charlotte, he was one of the founders of modern culinary arts, "haute cuisine", he was called "the cook of kings and the king of cooks". But he modified the charlotte, creating its new look, which is now called Charlotte Russe.

Illustration from Karem's book, he is on the right.

5) I left the most beautiful and funny for you in the end.

At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, there were many German bakeries in Russia that prepared this dessert from the remains of bread and bakery products. The Russians laughed and said that the wives of the Germans save money and even make pies from crackers, and the wives themselves, summarizing, were called Charlottes behind their backs. The name Charlotte was very popular at the time and became a household name for any German woman living in Russia (Wikipedia).

Charlotte evolution.
Despite the fact that charlotte is prepared with many fruits, the whole world fell in love with its apple version.
So, initially charlotte is a bread pudding, and its cold version, "raw". Those. slices of bread moistened with syrup from under boiled fruits were folded into the form in layers, these fruits were laid out between the bread, everything was covered with slices of bread.

Then they began to bake charlotte, the bread was already soaked in melted butter or wine, and even in a mixture of eggs and milk. But bread slices were already laid out not in layers, but along the bottom and along the walls of the form, filling the middle with stewed fruit.
Antoine Karem made charlotte an elegant and very delicate dessert, replacing bread with Savoyardi biscuits and biscuit slices, and apple filling with Bavarian cream.

In Russia, in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the flow of foreign chefs, recipes for charlotte also poured in, which adapted to our Russian realities, as a result of which charlotte from rye bread was born. But Charlotte Russe did not take root. At the beginning of the 20th century in our country, charlotte turned into a very simple biscuit pie with apples, which every housewife knows. So many generations grew up on a simple recipe for apple charlotte. And although our women are so talented that there are a great many variations of the simplest pie at the moment, everyone still dearly loves the classic charlotte recipe, this is not even a recipe, but the proportions that everyone supplements to their liking: 1 glass of flour, 1 glass of sugar, 4 eggs, 0.5 teaspoon of soda, slaked with vinegar. Nowadays, baking soda is replaced with baking powder and vanilla sugar is added.

Despite the fact that Charlotte Russe did not take root in Russia, it is very popular in Europe and America. Speaking of America!
Charlotte came to this continent along with immigrants, but very quickly a legend was born that one American chef from a city called Charlotte came up with charlotte. To the credit of the Americans, they somewhat modified the charlotte, but for the better, giving rise to a new and wonderful pie, making it truly national and their pride.

Now in the world three main types of charlotte are firmly established, from which all cooks are already dancing.
1. English charlotte pudding, made from bread slices and apples, can be either "raw" or baked.
Of course, a great many recipes have accumulated over so many centuries, but for myself and for you, and for the sake of curiosity, I took a hundred-year-old recipe from the book "Practical Fundamentals of Culinary Art" by Pelageya Alexandrova-Ignatieva.

2. Charlotte Russe, born of the great Antoine Careme. This charlotte is prepared by laying out the form with savoiardi cookies, Bavarian cream with gelatin is poured into the form. Nowadays, Bavarian cream is mixed with various berry and fruit purees or chocolate, and jelly, most often berry, is poured on top of the cake.
I prepared Karem charlotte according to a combined recipe with a Russian bias: I laid out the form with Savoyardi cookies dipped in a mixture of sugar syrup and rum (most often Grand Marnier liquor is used as alcohol), poured Bavarian cream with vanilla, and then added a layer of cranberry jelly on top.

3. A modern Russian charlotte with apples, which is a classic biscuit with apples added to the dough.

Charlotte- Cake with sweet cream and fruit. In Russia, the dish is common as a homemade pie stuffed with fruit (usually apples).

Story

The birthplace of charlotte is France. It was there that she appeared under the name Charlotte. Initially, the pie was cooked on white bread, with the addition of fruit, liquor and sweet cream. The recipe was not considered simple.

There are several versions of the origin of the name Charlotte. The first is romantic. The dish is named after a certain beauty Charlotte, with whom a famous chef fell in love. The second version refers us to the origin of the word charlyt, which has Old English roots and translates as sweet with cream. Finally, the most likely version is the name in honor of Queen Charlotte, who was the wife of George III and was very fond of apples.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Charlotte Russe dish saw the light - the invention of a French cook who served with Alexander I. Her name was Marie Antoinette Karem. The same name is given by the famous French culinary specialist Auguste Escoffier. He suggests replacing bread with the famous ladies' fingers biscuits, and smearing the cakes with Bavarian cream or vanilla ice cream with fruit.

toppings

The fruit part in charlottes, as a rule, consists of apples, since this is a very affordable product for our latitudes. Thus, any village housewife can make charlotte - just go to the garden and pick apples. Modern housewives, who do not have gardens, but have money to go to markets and shops, experiment with a variety of fillings - from plums, pears, bananas, pineapples, etc.

Recipes from the culinary portal Povarenok.ru

Charlotte in Russian

Ingredients:

Cookies "tongues" - 18 pcs.
Sugar (150 g for cream and 50 g to grease cookies) - 200 g
Egg yolk - 5 pieces (or 10 quail)
Milk - 300 ml
Vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
Cream - 300 ml
Butter - 1 tsp.

Cooking

Soak gelatin in cold water (until it swells). At this time, grind the yolks and 150 g of sugar until white.

Add vanilla to milk and bring to a boil. Pour the milk in a thin stream into the yolk mass, stirring constantly. Put on a small fire and cook (again, stirring) until the cream thickens. Add gelatin and heat until dissolved. (Important: the cream should not thicken!). Cool down. Whip the cream into a thick foam. Pour the cream into the cream, mix.

Mix 50 g of sugar and 10 ml of boiling water, sprinkle the cookies with syrup, lay the cookies on the walls of the mold, pre-oiled. Fill the middle of the mold with the mass (make sure that the cookies do not fall), cover with a plate and refrigerate. Cool for at least 4 hours.

Immerse the mold in hot water for a few seconds so that the charlotte can be easily removed. You can decorate the cake with powdered sugar or cinnamon. Bon appetit!

apple charlotte

Ingredients:

Flour - 1 cup
Egg - 4 pcs.
Sugar - 1 cup
Apple - 4 pcs.
Vanillin or cinnamon

Cooking:

Lubricate a deep wide form well with butter, sprinkle with flour a little, fill half with apples, thinly cut into slices. Pour batter evenly over apples. Let stand for 8-10 minutes so that the dough flows between the apples. Put in the oven, set the temperature to 150 degrees. Bake until done for 50-60 minutes.

Allow to cool in the form, then you can turn it over or put it on a dish without turning it over, sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.

In our regular column "History of the dish" we have already told what products the first Caesar salad was made from, why the bird's milk cake has such an unusual name, how Sophia Loren influenced the popularization of Carbonara pasta and much more. Today HELLO.RU decided to introduce you to the history of Russians' favorite pie - charlotte.

Charlotte won such a high popularity among the housewives of our country for two reasons: firstly, it is quick and easy to cook, and secondly, all the necessary products are affordable and inexpensive. It is believed that charlotte is a summer-autumn dessert, since it is during these seasons that a real apple “blockage” happens in the gardens of many Russians.

Meanwhile, the first charlotte was cooked on the territory of a completely different country - England, and the genius who came up with this simple culinary formula was the French chef Marie Antoine Karem. Karem was the favorite cook of many kings and emperors in the 19th century. Alexander I was one of the fans of Marie Antoine's gourmet dishes - Karem worked in his St. Petersburg palace for several years, passing at the disposal of the emperor directly from the hands of the English king George IV. By the way, the name of the pie, according to one version, was given in honor of the British royal person - George's mother, Queen Charlotte.

The first "Russian charlotte" (that's what it was called in the world) was prepared as follows: a layer of savoiardi biscuit cookies was laid out on the bottom of a baking dish and covered with whipped cream. Apples appeared in this pie a little later, by the way, even then, along with crispy fruits, it was customary to add nuts, cocoa powder and even raisins to the dessert. Then, during the time of I.V. Stalin, the dish was renamed "Russian grandmother" - there should not have been any hint of European roots in the Soviet man's favorite delicacy.

Now in the CIS, almost any pie with apples is called charlotte. The dough for classic charlotte is kneaded from flour, eggs and sugar, and chopped apples are added to it before baking.

In the middle of the last century, an unusual variety (although, in our opinion, this is a completely different dish) of "Russian charlotte" was popular in New York: biscuit dough stuffed with whipped cream and cocktail cherries was served in paper cups.

Today HELLO.RU will tell you how to cook charlotte according to the recipe of the chef of the "Prozhektor" restobar.

Ingredients:

Green apples - 700 g

Eggs - 5 pcs.

Vanillin - 3 g

Flour - 160 g

Sugar - 170 g

Milk - 25 g

Baking powder - 10 g

Orange - 1 pc.

Lemon - 1 pc.

Cinnamon - 2 g

Cooking method:

1. Peel the apples from the peel and seeds, remove the core. Cut into circles and pour squeezed juice of orange and lemon, add cinnamon, mix.

2. Grate the zest on a fine grater. Beat the egg with sugar in a dense foam, add salt and zest. Add flour mixed with baking powder. Knead the dough, add milk at the end.

3. Put the dough and apples in layers in a greased form. Sprinkle with sugar.

4. Bake for 30 minutes at 170 degrees, then 20 minutes at 160 and 140 degrees.

Bon appetit!

Charlotte is loved all over the world, but somewhere it's a pudding, somewhere it's a cold dessert, and in Russia it's a simple apple pie. In this article I will tell you about the history of the origin of this many-sided sweetness, about her travels around the world.

Charlotte is a simplified, folk, one might say affectionate derivative of "Charlotte".

There are two versions of the origin of the name:

1) Most of the legends associated with the creation of charlotte indicate that it comes from the female name "Charlotte".

2) Some culinary scientists claim (based on English recipes of the 15th century and later, which is credible) that the name of the dessert charlotte comes from the English word charlyt, which means a dish made from beaten eggs, sugar and milk. In the 15th century, in England, by the way, a meat dish with the same name was also popular.

From various sources, I have collected almost all available versions of the origin of Charlotte, some of them are quite funny:

1) Be that as it may, but all modern types of charlotte come from the English pudding. I put this most realistic, in my opinion, version at the very beginning, so as not to confuse you. It was the British who came up with this dessert, and what we have now arose relatively recently. In foggy Albion, it seems that puddings are prepared from everything in the world. The recipe for English charlotte is very simple, although there are also many options. That first and simple charlotte was a cold dessert, the so-called "raw", when moistened slices of bread were stacked in layers, interspersed with chopped fruit.

The basis of both cold / raw and baked charlotte is moistened slices of bread or biscuit, which are laid out in a small form, filling the middle with stewed fruit. The most common and favorite option is apple charlotte. But slices of bread are moistened in everything, and in dissolved butter, and in syrup from under stewed fruits, and in wine, and in Russia they were very fond of moistening bread in a mixture of eggs and milk (Oh, how many centuries have passed, but we have still love to soak bread slices for toast in this egg-and-milk mixture).

2) This version is also English, but with royal participation.

In the 18th century, King George III ruled Great Britain; his wife, Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was the patroness of apple growers. It is believed that it was she who invented the Charlotte apple dessert. Of course, I did not search much, but I did not find any confirmation of this theory. Since this pudding existed before Queen Charlotte, I think she improved the recipe, but again, there is no information about this. But this version is beautiful, I do not argue.

3) Many people know the romantic legend about the creation of charlotte by a certain chef from the UK, who was hopelessly in love with a girl named Charlotte, for whom he created a wonderful apple dessert and named it after his beloved. Name, place of residence or work, but at least the time of life is lost forever, except for a dessert with a beautiful name. A doubtful version, but lives and lives for a long time.

4) The French chef Marie Antoine Karem, who lived at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, is often called the creator of charlotte, he was one of the founders of modern culinary arts, "haute cuisine", he was called "the cook of kings and the king of cooks". But he modified the charlotte, creating its new look, which is now called Charlotte Russe.

Illustration from Karem's book, he is on the right.

How it was: Antoine Carem is said to have modified charlotte in 1802, laying out the form not with bread, but with Savoyardi (“Ladyfingers”) biscuits, filling the middle with Bavarian cream with gelatin. Such charlotte was a cold dessert and was called "Paris charlotte". But in 1814, Russian Tsar Alexander I entered Paris as a winner, for whom Karem prepared his dessert. Since then, this cake has been known worldwide as "Charlotte Russe".

5) I left the most beautiful and funny for you in the end.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there were many German bakeries in Russia that prepared this dessert from leftover bread and bakery products. The Russians laughed and said that the wives of the Germans save money and even make pies from crackers, and the wives themselves, summarizing, were called Charlottes behind their backs. The name Charlotte was very popular at that time and became a household name for any German woman living in Russia.

6) In America, they believe that their national charlotte was invented by a certain chef from the city of Charlotte, which is somewhat doubtful, given the similarity with the English recipe. Most likely, charlotte was brought by immigrants. In the 19th century, a saying appeared in America that is said when speaking of a typically American phenomenon or object: "As American as apple pie" ("As American as an apple pie").

Charlotte evolution.

Despite the fact that charlotte is prepared with many fruits, the whole world fell in love with its apple version.
So, initially charlotte is a bread pudding, and its cold version, "raw". Those. slices of bread moistened with syrup from under boiled fruits were folded into the form in layers, these fruits were laid out between the bread, everything was covered with slices of bread.

Then they began to bake charlotte, the bread was already soaked in melted butter or wine, and even in a mixture of eggs and milk. But bread slices were already laid out not in layers, but along the bottom and along the walls of the form, filling the middle with stewed fruit.
Antoine Karem made charlotte an elegant and very delicate dessert, replacing bread with Savoyardi biscuits and biscuit slices, and apple filling with Bavarian cream.

In Russia, in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the flow of foreign chefs, recipes for charlotte also poured in, which adapted to our Russian realities, as a result of which charlotte from rye bread was born. But Charlotte Russe did not take root. At the beginning of the 20th century in our country, charlotte turned into a very simple biscuit pie with apples, which every housewife knows. So many generations grew up on a simple recipe for apple charlotte. And although our women are so talented that there are a great many variations of the simplest pie at the moment, everyone still dearly loves the classic charlotte recipe, this is not even a recipe, but the proportions that everyone supplements to their liking: 1 glass of flour, 1 glass of sugar, 4 eggs, 0.5 teaspoon of soda, slaked with vinegar. Nowadays, baking soda is replaced with baking powder and vanilla sugar is added.

Despite the fact that Charlotte Russe did not take root in Russia, it is very popular in Europe and America. Speaking of America!
Charlotte came to this continent along with immigrants, but very quickly a legend was born that one American chef from a city called Charlotte came up with charlotte. To the credit of the Americans, they somewhat modified the charlotte, but for the better, giving rise to a new and wonderful pie, making it truly national and their pride.

Now in the world three main types of charlotte are firmly established, from which all cooks are already dancing.

1. English charlotte pudding, made from bread slices and apples, can be either "raw" or baked.

2. Charlotte Russe, born of the great Antoine Karem. This charlotte is prepared by laying out the form with savoiardi cookies, Bavarian cream with gelatin is poured into the form. Nowadays, Bavarian cream is mixed with various berry and fruit purees or chocolate, and jelly, most often berry, is poured on top of the cake.

3. Modern Russian charlotte with apples, which is a classic biscuit with the addition of apples to the dough.

Until the middle of the last century, there was even a special detachable form for charlotte and it was called - charlotte! But, unfortunately, I could not find any photographs or illustrations of this unique form, although some books about it say that it is small, narrow and high with a removable bottom. Now, by the way, this is not tragic, since the stores are full of detachable forms of various sizes.