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Pouding Chômeur (Cake Baked Under Hot Maple Syrup)

A Quebec dessert: a plain cake batter spread in a dish, a hot syrup of maple syrup and cream poured over it, and the whole thing baked. In the oven the cake rises up through the syrup, and the syrup sinks to the bottom as a thick sauce.

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Poutine

Quebec's iconic comfort food: crisp French fries scattered with soft cheese curds and drowned in hot gravy. The heat of the gravy softens the curds into savory, squeaky pockets throughout the fries.

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Nanaimo Bar (Three-Layer Chocolate Slice)

The Canadian three-layer slice that never sees an oven. Each layer is held by a different fat: egg and butter glue the crumb base, butter with icing sugar sets the middle in the fridge, and cocoa butter crystallises the chocolate top, which is why that top shatters under a knife.