Café liégeois
Encyclopedia
Café liégeois is a cold dessert made from lightly sweetened coffee
, coffee flavour ice cream
and chantilly cream.
One should refrigerate a large glass with the required amount of sweetened coffee, and add the ice cream and chantilly just prior to serving. Often crushed roasted coffee beans are put on top of the chantilly as decoration.
Contrary to appearance the café liégeois was not created in Liège
. In fact, it was originally known in France as a café viennois (Viennese Coffee). However during World War I with the Battle of Liège
in full swing and Vienna
representing the enemy, Paris' cafés started renaming the dessert café liégeois in honour of Belgium's embattled forts. Curiously, for a while at least, in Liège itself it continued to be known as café viennois.
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
, coffee flavour ice cream
Ice cream
Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...
and chantilly cream.
One should refrigerate a large glass with the required amount of sweetened coffee, and add the ice cream and chantilly just prior to serving. Often crushed roasted coffee beans are put on top of the chantilly as decoration.
Contrary to appearance the café liégeois was not created in Liège
Liège
Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the economic capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium....
. In fact, it was originally known in France as a café viennois (Viennese Coffee). However during World War I with the Battle of Liège
Battle of Liège
The Battle of Liège was the opening engagement of the German invasion of Belgium, and the first battle of World War I. The attack on the city began on 5 August 1914 and lasted until the 16th when the last Belgian fort finally surrendered...
in full swing and Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
representing the enemy, Paris' cafés started renaming the dessert café liégeois in honour of Belgium's embattled forts. Curiously, for a while at least, in Liège itself it continued to be known as café viennois.