The origin of the Pavlova’s cake
Some love it, some hate it – Pavlova is surely a well-known dessert, with interesting history. This airly meringue-based cake is usually topped with fruit and whipped cream. This cake is believed to have been created to honour Anna Pavlova – a Russian ballerina and her tour to Australia and New Zealand in the 1920’s. The origin of the desert still remains a reason of disagreement between these two countries.
Pavlova with pomegranate
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Anna Pavlova was born on 12 February 1881 in St. Petersburg. Her mother worked as a laundress and the identity of Pavlova’s biological father is still unknown, though some speculate that her mother had an affair. Ever since Anna’s early age, she’s been blessed with active imagination and passion for ballet. Anna’s mother enthusiastically supported her dreams and despite being poor, Pavlova was accepted at the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet School, in which Anna’s talent was quickly recognized.
Anna Pavlova in the Fokine/Saint-Saëns The Dying Swan, Saint Petersburg, 1905,
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Anna Pavlova was a gifted, ambitious and hard-working student. She knew that her career would need much more than just talent. It had to be followed by tireless work ethic and dedication. As Pavlova said – "No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.” Pavlova graduated at the age of 18 and her career as prima ballerina started to blossom. With every single performance her fame and acclaim raised, but it was in 1905, when Pavlova danced the lead solo in The Dying Swan, which became her signature role. By 1906 (just seven years after graduation) she was promoted to prima ballerina. Pavlova was invited to join Ballet Russe and while touring she visited Australia.
The history of Pavlova can be traced to Australia where recipes for similar cake have been found. A 1922 cookery book by Emily Futter contained a recipe for "Meringue with Fruit Filling". This is the first known recipe for a desert entirely resembling the modern pavlova, though not yet known by that name. As New Zealand history goes, the chef of a Wellington hotel created dessert inspired by Pavlova’s tutu. Australians, on the other hand believe that the cake was invented at Perth hotel and named after Pavlova. The first mention of the desert appeared in 1927 in New Zealand’s cookbook „Davis Dainty Dishes”. Unfortunately the recipe is for multi-layered jelly. Other researchers said that the origin lies outside New Zealand and Australia. Recipe for moder pavlova can be traced back to the Austro-Hungarian Spanische windtorte, which is composed of meringue and whipped cream.
Regardless of the origin, Pavlova is an amazing dessert, named after a brilliant artist and despite complex preparation, I highly recommend baking it on your own or at least trying to do so!
- Have you ever tried this dessert and what’s your favorite recipe for pavlova? If not, would you like to give it a try?
- Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
- What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
Sources:
https://www.biography.com/performer/anna-pavlova
Comments
Of cakes, my only work was apple pie. In addition, from my culinary achievements you can distinguish lasagne and spagethi, because they are good for me.
I have wondered many times what is more important, talent or hard work. You can use math to answer this question. Hard work is max 100%, and hard work and talent are more than 100%. Thus, people with talent are more lazy. Anyway, in my opinion talent is very important, but you can't forget about hard work, because it is equally important.
2. No, basically I don’t like doing anything in the kitchen. If I do, that’s because I have no other options, but anyway – it’s usually just boiling some frozen dumplings and stuff like that. For me it is a waste of time, I just don’t feel the satisfaction while cooking and I don’t like cleaning everything after that. My biggest cooking achievement are scrambled eggs which I’ve made once in my life and it wasn’t very good :(
3. Definitely hard work. With hard work one deserves respect. Talent is given to some people for free, so how can they be proud of it? Talent is indeed helpful and usually talented people do work very hard to use its maximum potential, but it’s hard work which is a key to the success.
1. Unfortunately, I have never tried this dessert and I do not know any pavlova recipe. But definitely I would try, If I had a chance! It really looks tasty!
2. Honestly, I don't really like baking. Maybe I don't mean the very fact of baking, but about the dishes that take a lot of time to cook. I prefer faster dishes, mainly to fry or to microwave. And my greatest culinary achievement is poppy seed cake.
3. I think talent and hard work are very important in cooking. Yes, you can make a dish with only talent or spend a lot of time on this dish. But I guess a dish comes out best when these two things are combined.
2. I'd rather cook than bake. However, sometimes I prepare some cakes, most often different types of tarts and cheesecakes. What discourages me from baking is that if I make a mistake in preparation I learn about it after baking.
3. Although more important is persistence and hard work thanks to which you can achieve a lot, in my opinion, to become a virtuoso they must be accompanied by talent.
Have you ever tried this dessert and what’s your favorite recipe for pavlova? If not, would you like to give it a try?
Unfortunately, I have never tried this dessert and it looks extremely delicious, I will definitely try to cook it:) Hope, it is not a very complicated recipe.
Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I am not a person who is passionate about cooking and looking for the recipes and spend hours cooking, however if something is really tasty and I feel like I really want to try it and it is not something I can buy in an every bakery shop, so yes I will bake. Sadly, however I can cook only apple pie and biscuits.
What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
It is a controversial question for me. I think that hard work is very important as most of things can be achived only through making titanic efforts, however talent is either relevant. I cannot imagine that someone who doesnt `have talent to painting can make something worth or someone who doesn`t have a talent to sing will sing very well even practicing all day long.
I have eaten pavlova a few times but I have never made it myself so I can't suggest any recipe. But surely I will make try it, especially because now we have much time to experiment :)
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I don't really like baking, but I like making cakes. How is that possible? I do only the ones that I don't have to bake. So every cake with fresh fruit, jelly and sour is good for me. My favorite is 3-Bit.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
Hard work is more important. I could believe that somebody has a talent to do something (I think that science can agree with me), but many skills can be learned by trying again and again. If people would not do anything because they did not find their talent, we would just sit and wait without doing anything.
Unfortunately i have never tried this dessert before and also i do not have any recipe for this. I am not eating often cakes but if i will have a opportunity i will try this one.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
In last days i dont have time for baking or cooking. I do some things in kitchen from time to time. I am not sure what is my biggest achievement but the last thing which i made was chicken with buffalo sauce. It taste awesome so i can recommend it. In some day i will try to make sushi by my own.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
In my opinion talent will be nothing without hard work. Not only in kitchen. If you want to be good in something you have to practice.
Unfortunately, I have never tried this dessert. And once I have decided to cook it myself just because I got a colorful recipe book as a present :) But my enthusiasm was over since I didn't have a mixer at home. But the Pavlova’s cake looks very appetizing and I have plans to cook it once.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I like baking but I do not like to do this very often. Usually, I try to cook something according to simple recipes. It can be cookies and my favorite Russian pancakes with condensed milk. I never made cakes, it seems to me too complicated.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
In my opinion, both talent and hard work are important. Here I almost agree with Pavlova that work transforms talent into genius.
If one is not willing to put in the work to harvest and cultivate their talent, then the talent itself is essentially useless.
I don't think so. I don't have time for this kind of cooking. I prefer salty snacks. For example, after 3 cubes of chocolate, I feel so sweet that it's an unpleasant feeling. My loved ones still can't understand this fact and for every birthday and Christmas I get sweets. Maybe it's because my parents never gave me candy.
Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I like to bake pizza. And my greatest culinary achievement was baking a duck with stuffing. The most difficult in technical terms that I made is probably the puff pastry and the Greek one.
What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
It seems to me that hard work is more important than talent. . Talent alone is not a guarantee of achieving our goals if we do nothing to improve our capabilities. Especially since through work we have the chance to develop in several dimensions, and talent usually has some aspects.
2. I love baking and I prefer it over cooking, so I tend to do it quite often. I wouldn’t consider it as an achievement, but last year I have managed to prepare two layered meringue cake with coconut/raffaelo filling and fruits, and it was amazing!
3. I think they are equally important, as talent can facilitate plenty of tasks, but without hard work it is impossible to even accomplish them. The best option is having both of these “features”, but If I only had to choose one it would be hard work, as it is much more probable to achieve something even without talent at first, as it is when you only have talent and are not willing to work for your dreams.
I think I tried once such cake, I like it. I think it's especially good in summer.
2.
I haven't tried baking yet, since my cooking is limited to mostly basic stuff and I usually eat out.
3.
Probably a mixture of them both, I would go for working smart. It requires some talent which in my opinion can be developed later in life by working systematically and continuously, it gives the illusion of the simplicity of the task even though it's not that simple for a normal people. In effect we can work less and and gain more results the more we're experienced.
I have not tried and I will gladly try. Globally, I try to avoid sweets. White death can devastate our body.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I don't bake because I can't and I don't know it.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
One should go hand in hand with the other. Talent and hard work are the keys to success. If someone has talent in a given field and works hard, it gives a nice effect.
1. Have you ever tried this dessert and what’s your favorite recipe for pavlova? If not, would you like to give it a try?
Yes, I have and from what I remember it was amazing. I am not a fan of very sweet desserts but this one was so delicious that I had no objections about it in any way. I don't have a favourite recipe for it because I don't think I know enough about it to define which is better.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
For the past few months I became much better in cooking but I have never baked anything. I am more of a barbecue guy when it comes to preparing dishes. I don't doubt however that one day I would give it a try.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
Talent is something that might disappear without hard work. Hard work, however, will always give some results no matter if you have talent or not. The perfect combination is to work hard on your talent but it is not some common, so I would say that hard work is much more important.
1. Have you ever tried this dessert and what’s your favorite recipe for pavlova? If not, would you like to give it a try?
I have tried the Pavlova cake a couple of times and I really like it. I do not have any favorite recipe as I almost never cook and I cannot remember the last time I baked anything, if ever. I guess I could try it but I would need to practice my cooking skills in general before that in order not to burn down the kitchen.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I never bake and very rarely cook so I cannot say that it fits with my interests. I have a sweet tooth but I always trust the bakery on my street to do the baking. I would say that my biggest cooking achievement was the Italian gnocchi that I made last week. A friend showed me how to make them from scratch following the traditional recipe. They were surprisingly delicious but it may have been mainly thanks to the gorgonzola and spinach sauce.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
In my opinion, talent is important but it doesn't get you anywhere without the hard work. Of course it depends on the specific area, but I believe that hard work is more important. I have met people who maybe haven't had much talent but turned out to be very successful solely thanks to their devotion and restlessness.
Personally I do not like desserts that much. I am more of a meat lover.
Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
Funny enough, I do not know how to cook. I am always eating out, and now, since it is quarantine, I was actively "Funding" delivery services.
What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
Odd question, hard to get a grip on what do you mean here.
No, I haven't. Yes, it sounds and looks delicious. I love sugar also, so I think I would like that very much.
Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I almost never do that, but when I do - I do enjoy it. It's a really satisfying thing to do. I never baked anything really impressive, I think that some classic brownie was my top achievement.
What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
Both. If someone has no talent in something, he should give up on that and find something else. Talent alone is too little to get far in any field really, so hard work is a necessity. Talent combined with hard work is the most impressive.
2 / I'm not very good at baking, but thanks to puff pastry and a jar of cherry jam, you can create a miracle in your own oven!
3 / I think that these are equally useful qualities, and we must try to achieve and use both. But since this is an interconnected concept, one can achieve one from the other or do one without the other.
I do not think I've had a chance to try one. But I like cakes and sweet things so I think that I would love to try that one day. Unfortunately, I don't know any of Pavlova's recipes.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I like cooking and baking as well. I've tried a lot of recipes but I don't know what would be my biggest achievement in that field. Recently I've made some banana bread which is not an achievement, but my family was impressed by the taste so I think that went pretty well.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
Depends. Talent comes with the genes and hard work comes from determination. Hard work should be praised more. But when a talent combines with hard work there are no boundaries for the person with both abilities.
2. Short story long- not really, I prefer cooking :)
3. A hard work- history knows many talented people but only a handful who achieved something truly big- those who worked hard.
2. I'm a big fan of food, especially when I'm not cooking. I like meat dishes and desserts. I cook myself every day, but desserts and cakes are very rare for holidays. At home, I help in the kitchen, during major celebrations. I like it although it's not my hobby, which is why I don't have any great culinary achievements. As I mentioned, I prefer to taste dishes that I have never eaten before.
3. I think talent and hard work go hand in hand, one without the other does not exist. No matter in what field, whether in sports or in cooking, talent alone is usually not enough. The most important is practice, exercises, hard work. Only then can we achieve success.
2. I don't really know how to bake. I once made a vegan chocolate cake with avocado but it was very simple and raw. I usually cook some healthy food, not sweets.
3. I think both are essential. Once you discover what you are good at, you shouldn't stop until you succeed at it.
I don't like to cook, but I like to bake cakes such as brownie, cheesecake or fruit bishops, but my greatest achievement is the chocolate fonadant (lava cake), where you have to feel the right baking time.
I think that hard work is more important, because talent alone can do nothing.
2. I'm not really into baking, i don't even have necessary equipment to even consider trying it out at the moment. I believe that once i made some chocolate chip cookies, and i was proud of them because they were delicious.
3. Of course work is more important than talent. Without work, talent is not being developed, which is necessary to achieve wanted results.
Unfortunately, I have not tried it, but like everyone here I am also very interested in this dessert. I tried a dessert with a similar composition, but I do not remember its name. I want to try it. Never heard before.
Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
In general, I spend a lot of time in the kitchen the past few years. This is due to the fact that I seriously decided to correct my cooking skills and became interested in cooking. But unfortunately I don’t know how to bake. But my immediate plans include learning how to bake some kind of dessert. Especially now, it seems to me, it's time to catch up and learn what you do not know.
What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
This is an unusual question for me to be honest. Probably because it is connected with the kitchen. And these concepts in the kitchen are rarely applicable. Although I could be wrong. But it seems to me that if a person works hard and improves his skills, then such a person can easily get ahead of even the most famous and professional chef in this area. Therefore, I am for hard working.
1. I've tried the original Pavlova with pomegranate and I liked it but it's not the best cake in the world. To me it's way too sweet.
2. I am more of a cook rather than baker. But my biggest baking achievement would probably be an Oreo cheese-cake which is my speciality (meaning that's the only cake that turns out all right if I make it). It takes up to four hours to make it and then you need to wait for eight hours for it to cool down.
3. Hard work of course. Talent only helps you at the start of your journey, but it's only hard work starting from there. And always remembering to never give up.
1. Yes, I love this dessert and to be honest all it's types. Doesn't matter if it is with pomegranate, mango or raspberry.
2. I love baking and cooking overally. I think I make very good chocolate cake (brownie style). None of my relatives ever complained :D Spending time in kitchen, cooking, especially with someone you love is great way to relieve stress and spend time together. Especially if you can prepare something tasty cause probably the best part of cooking is eating the thing later on
3. It is work for sure but talent will certainly help you in achieving goals.
1.Have you ever tried this dessert and what’s your favorite recipe for pavlova? If not, would you like to give it a try? I think i tried it once but I did not like it. Mostly all kind of cakes I don't like, some of them I like to taste but this one wouldn't be my favourite one.
2.Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I don't bake anything, I think i never did but I like cooking. I don't have a biggest acheviement meel, I just like to cook some kind of food and I do it really good like burgers pizza and pasta.
3.What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
Both of them are important, hard work is like 60% and talent would be 30% for me, you can work hard and spend years on practice but some people just have this special talent and they seems to do thing like they were born to do it.
1. Have you ever tried this dessert and what’s your favorite recipe for pavlova? If not, would you like to give it a try?
Yes, I have tried it, but is not one of the favorite of mine. I didn’t do any, so I don’t have my own recipe. Answering to the second question, probably no, I am not interested in baking, or doing desserts as well.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
No, I hate baking, my biggest cooking achievement is making a dinner: schrimps in white wine. If I have to choose between cooking and baking, definitely I would prefer the first one.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
The hard work is more important. I believe that everybody can achieve their targets if they really want it. The hard working is the best advantage of all possible which we can got.
1. Have you ever tried this dessert and what’s your favorite recipe for pavlova? If not, would you like to give it a try?
Yes, I tried this dessert, it is tasty and simple to prepare.
I like the classic recipe, you can find it on google, even here: https://justynadragan.pl/2017/07/tort-pavlova.html
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I love cooking, although I don't like cleaning later.
In my opinion, the tastiest dish I have made is Pad Thai.
Pad Thai is a popular classic Thai dish. It combines sour, spicy and sweet taste. It includes fried rice noodles with one of the ingredients - beef, tofu, shrimps or chicken. It is seasoned with tamarind sauce, fish and oyster sauce, sprinkled with lime,chives, mung bean sprouts and nuts. This is my favorite dish and you can get it in every bigger city in restaurants with Asian food, also you can prepare it yourself - for at least several years the ingredients have been available in supermarkets, you don't have to go to Thailand to try it.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
Personally, I don't believe in talent. Talent in my opinion is work on something, starting at a very early age. Fortunately, we live in an era where video recordings can prove my thesis, and the highest paid young musicians started from the same level as everyone else.
The most important is hard work, but also access to knowledge and a teacher / trainer.
If you're interested in food, talent and hard work, I recommend watching the anime Shokugeki no Souma. (Food Wars)
2. I really enjoy baking but don’t have much time for that. My best recipe though is chocolate cheesecake with coffee icing (tastes great and it is definitely something different from ones that out grandmas make on holidays)
3. Well talent most of the time comes after hard work. First you need to learn basics then there is a place for some hidden talents to shine
2.I don't really bake but my girlfriend is a pastry chef so I eat a lot of baked goods. Desserts, bread, cookies - it's starting to affect my weight! My biggest cooking achievement is making a perfect medium rare steak using only my intuition. It was heaven.
3.I think hard work. No matter how much talent you have, you won't achieve anything without working hard towards your goal. I can see it based on my girlfriend - she wouldn't be where she is now if it wasn't for waking up at 4 am to go to work for a 12 hour shift at the bakery. If you work hard enough, even without any talent, the talent will appear. It's all about stubbornness and pursue of perfection.
2. Yes I like a lot. I can't indicate an achievement, because i rather having fun doing this as really casual. But for sure i can say that i make really nice cheese cakes.
3. It's hard to answer but I can say that this things are conected. Because with talent there is need for less work. And in opposite way without talent it could be really hard work to master or achive someting.
I never tried this dessert before so I don’t have my favourite recipe and yes, I would like to give it a try but well this dessert looks similar too ordinary meringue with added some cream and fruits.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I’m not a fan of baking, last time I tried baking I made sad layer it tasted good but and this was only thing that was good about this cake everything else was just ugly…
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
I think that both if you are talented but lazy you will be good but only average good but if you add hard work you can be brilliant and similarly if you don’t have talent and only work hard you will never be as good someone talented that work hard but you will probably be better then someone talented and lazy
Have you ever tried this dessert and what’s your favorite recipe for pavlova? If not, would you like to give it a try?
I LOVE pavlova, it’s my favorite dessert. I haven’t tried making it because usually my father makes it, so I don’t have my favorite recipe. But I love when fruits on pavlova are sour like kiwis and not sweet like strawberries etc. I helps break the sweetness of the meringue and whipped cream.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I like cooking very much, but I don’t like baking. It’s probably because I’m not really into desserts. My biggest cooking achievement.. wow that’s a hard question, I don’t really look at cooking this way.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
I think that talent is very important but hard work can make people without talent much better than people relying solely on talent. Talent makes it easier, but that’s it.
Have you ever tried this dessert and what’s your favourite recipe for pavlova? If not, would you like to give it a try?
No, I haven't tried this dessert yet. But I would like to give it a try, I think it should very interesting and tasty.
Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
It depends on my mood. If I have a mood to cook something then I like it, but if I am tired or exhausted or simply don't want to cook, then it's not for me. My biggest cooking achievement was lasagna, which I cooked by myself from the beginning.
What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
I think the most important is hard working. Because if you have talent, but too lazy to develop it, then eventually you will lose it. On the other hand, having only a strong will to achieve something could compensate for the lake of talent.
Yes, many many times, it's one of my favourites cakes despite the fact that i don't like sweets so much.
Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
Yes, in general I like to cook. I don't have a lot of time to do this but it gives me lot of satisfaction especially when I am preparing some food for the others.
What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
Both has the corelation. However even if someone has talent - without hard work it could do nothing but with hard work someone without the talent could gain a lot.
I'm not used to eating desserts. I don't like sweet foods much, however when I'm in the mood I eat chocolate. Maybe I'll try some of this dessert, but someone will have to give it to me and force me to eat it.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I haven't tried baking in my kitchen career. My biggest achievement was making lasagne.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
I mostly think of success as a collective of both talent and hard work. Sometime hard work is more important than talent. You can have talent but no one will recognize it unless you work hard to put yourself and your work out into the world.
I have never tried this dessert, as I'm not a fan of sweet food. It looks tasty, and I hope someday I would have a mood to try it.
Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I like baking, the process is very interesting. My favourite part of baking is decorating it. I haven't a lot of experience in baking, my the biggest cooking achievement is chocolate fondan.
What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
The hard word is more important. Everybody can achieve great results when practicing a lot. Talent is very important is artists area, you can practice 24/7, but if you don't have talent you cannot create something that would be unforgettable.
I have never tried, but in the future I would like to try
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
I do not like baking, but in the past I was able to bake cakes
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
I think that talent is more important, thanks to him you can have passions
1. I was actually very surprised when I saw this dessert in your post, as I ate it few times and I had no idea it was named Pavlova's cake. As for my favourite recipe I can't say, because it was made by my brother. Only thing I can say is it looked exactly like in first photo.
2.I'm not that fond of baking, so I never really made anything alone.
3Talent helps for sure and if the person with it works very hard, you can't reach same level as them no matter how hard you try without posessing talent.
Yes, I like it very much. I like Pavlova made by "Mamuśka Cheesecake Shop". It's ingredients are various fruits, kiwi and pineapple among others.
2. Do you like baking and what’s your biggest cooking achievement?
Yes, I like baking, but I don't bake often. My bakery skill is cutting sponge cake along into thin pies without breaking any.
3. What’s more important for you – talent or hard work?
Talent based on a hard work is a perfect combination. But of the two, the second is more important as it is a thing that brings real value. Talent without hard work wouldn't give you much.
2.I don't like baking cakes myself, but sometimes I bake cakes with my girlfriend and our best common cake was cheesecake.
3.I think it's a talent. Everyone can work hard and make a lot of money. However, few have the talent not to overwork but huge amounts of money.