Whipped cream#Cr.C3.A8me Chantilly

Crème Chantilly cream is a dessert of whipped cream, flavored syrup and vanilla.

From whipped cream to crème Chantilly

A legend says that François Vatel, have for the big feast in 1671 at Chantilly in honor of Louis XIV, invented and served this creation. However, this is not true, the feast was described in the Gazette, the oldest French newspaper, in detail. Crème Chantilly or whipped cream was not mentioned. The use of whipped cream is occupied since 1650. There is no sugar was used at that time. 1750 Menon described in a cookbook Crème Chantilly for the first time. However, he called her Fromage à la Chantilly, Chantilly cheese '. After his recipe was double cream whipped with a little orange flower water and added sugar with grated lemon peel. Only in 1775 did Louis V. Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé called Hameau de Chantilly built in the park of the castle Chantilly. It involves an idealized village, which included a barn and a dairy. There hosted Louis V. Joseph de Bourbon banquet in a luxurious ambience. 1784 Henriette von Oberkirch there for the second time to visit and wrote in her Mémoires de la baronne d' Oberkirch that the cream was better than any they 've eaten before. However, it is unknown exactly when someone came up with the idea to sugar in the whipped cream and in what year it was finally brought to the Hameau de Chantilly in conjunction.