Hi guys! What did you do on Australia Day?
At IIA we had a lamington party in our classes. Lamingtons are a traditional Australian cake.
Here they are!
Every IIA student enjoyed a lamington with an Australian flag :)
Zoe's Pre-intermediate class
Colin's Intermediate class
Tiffany's Upper-intermediate class
Pam's Elementary class
Alison's IELTS preparation class
Do you know how the lamington came to be?
Well, the story goes like this:
The Lamington is named after Lord Lamington, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901. According to legend, Lamingtons were first served in Toowoomba when Lord Lamington took his entourage to Harlaxton House to escape the steamy heat of Brisbane. The Lamingtons' chef at Queensland's Government House, Armand Gallad, was called upon at short notice to provide something to feed unexpected guests. According to the Melbourne Age newspaper, Gallad cut up some left over French vanilla sponge cake baked the day before, dipped the slices in chocolate and set them in coconut (an ingredient not widely used in European cooking at that time). Lady Lamington's guests then asked for the recipe.
Another version claims the dessert resembled the homburg hats favoured by Lord Lamington. A further alternative origin is that Lord Lamington's cook, presumably Gallad, accidentally dropped a block of sponge cake into a dish of chocolate. Later on it was discovered to be very nice with desiccated coconut sprinkled over the top.
Ironically, Lord Lamington was believed to have
hated the dessert that had been named in his honour.
Source: wikipedia.org
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