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A floating island is a European dessert consisting of "islands" of meringue floating in a "sea" of Crème anglaise. In French cuisine Ile flottante, Polish cuisine Zupa Nic, Austrian cuisine Kanarimilch (High German Schnee-Eier), in the Hungarian cuisine, Madártej.[1] Similar recipes are known in the Southeastern Europe, mainly Vojvodina and East Croatia, under the name Schneenockerln or šnenokle. It is prepared from whipped egg whites, whose chunks are briefly cooked, and then scuttled into vanilla-flavored custard cream. In French cuisine, oeufs à la neige is often used interchangeably with île flottante. The difference between the two dishes is that île flottante consists of one large "island," whereas oeufs à la neige consists of multiple separate pieces of meringue floating on the crème anglaise.[1] A similar dessert in Romanian and Moldovan cuisine is called lapte de pasăre (literally "bird's milk"--not to be confused with the similarly named Polish confectionery ptasie mleczko or Russian confectionery птичье молоко, ptichye moloko).
A floating island is a European dessert consisting of "islands" of meringue floating in a "sea" of Crème anglaise. In French cuisine Ile flottante, Polish cuisine Zupa Nic, Austrian cuisine Kanarimilch (High German Schnee-Eier), in the Hungarian cuisine, Madártej.[1] Similar recipes are known in the Southeastern Europe, mainly Vojvodina and East Croatia, under the name Schneenockerln or šnenokle. It is prepared from whipped egg whites, whose chunks are briefly cooked, and then scuttled into vanilla-flavored custard cream.
In French cuisine, oeufs à la neige is often used interchangeably with île flottante. The difference between the two dishes is that île flottante consists of one large "island," whereas oeufs à la neige consists of multiple separate pieces of meringue floating on the crème anglaise.[1]
A similar dessert in Romanian and Moldovan cuisine is called lapte de pasăre (literally "bird's milk"--not to be confused with the similarly named Polish confectionery ptasie mleczko or Russian confectionery птичье молоко, ptichye moloko).
