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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.
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.
Name Image Origin Description Alexandertorte: Latvia: Pastry strips filled with berries. [2] [3]Alfajor: Argentina. Uruguay. Pastry strips filled with dulce de leche.: Apple strudel
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The invention of the croquembouche is often attributed to Antonin Carême, [4] who includes it in his 1815 cookbook Le Pâtissier royal parisien, but it is mentioned as early as 1806, in André Viard's culinary encyclopedia Le Cuisinier Impérial, and Antoine Beauvilliers' 1815 L'Art du Cuisinier.
Cannoli. Some food historians place the origins of cannoli in 827–1091 in Caltanissetta, Sicily, by the concubines of princes looking to capture their attention. [10] [11] This period marks the Arab rule of the island, known then as the Emirate of Sicily, giving rise to the theory that the etymology stemmed from the Arabic word qanawāt, 'tubes', in reference to their tube-shaped shells.
Related to alcapurria, tamales, hallacas, and guanimes, pasteles were originally made by the indigenous people of Boriquen (Puerto Rico). [citation needed] Tainos made masa from cassava, yautía and squash.
Meat rissoles with potatoes. In the 19th century, Mrs Beeton said French rissoles were "Pastry, made of light puff-paste, and cut into various forms, and fried. They may be filled with fish, meat, or sweets."