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The profiteroles we know today, using choux pastry, were created in the 19th century. Jules Gouffé in his Livre de cuisine [12] (1870) explains that a profiterole is a small choux pastry. Gustave Garlin in Le Cuisinier moderne [13] (1887) mentions profiteroles filled with cream and glazed with chocolate or coffee, worked to be smooth and shiny.
Profiteroles, chocolate, caramel Media: Croquembouche A croquembouche ( French: [kʁɔ.kɑ̃.buʃ] ) or croque-en-bouche is a French dessert consisting of choux pastry puffs piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel .
The full term is commonly said to be a corruption of French pâte à chaud (lit. ' hot pastry/dough ').The term "choux" has two meanings in the early literature. One is a kind of cheese puff, first documented in the 13th century; the other corresponds to the modern choux pastry and is documented in English, German, and French cookbooks in the 16th century.
The dough, which is the same as that used for profiterole, is typically piped into an oblong shape with a pastry bag and baked until it is crisp and hollow inside. Once cool, the pastry is filled with custard (crème pâtissière), whipped cream or chiboust cream, then iced with fondant icing. [3]
The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from A to G. See also the lists from H to O and from P to Z.
The precise definition of the term pastry varies based on location and culture. [1] Common doughs used to make pastries include filo dough, puff pastry, choux pastry, short dough, pâte brisée, pâte sucrée, and other enriched doughs.
The profiterole in its current form (choux pastry filled with cream) is not attested anywhere near that long ago; instead, it appears to have been a kind of small bread roll without much crumb cooked in the ashes of a fire (Littré).
Beignets from Haute-Savoie. Variations of fried dough can be found across cuisines internationally; however, the origin of the term beignet is specifically French. They were brought to New Orleans in the 18th century by French colonists, [10] from "the old mother country", [12] also brought by Acadians, [13] and became a large part of home-style Creole cooking.