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means A dessert of sponge cake and ice cream encased in browned meringue, baked or torched just long enough to toast the outside while the ice cream inside stays frozen.

from The name dates to 19th-century America, coined to celebrate the then-newly purchased territory of Alaska — a nod to its icy reputation, since the dish's whole trick is keeping cold ice cream insulated from hot oven air by a shell of meringue. The science (meringue's trapped air acts as insulation) is real; the showmanship — sometimes flambéed tableside — came later as restaurants leaned into the fire-and-ice spectacle.