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Both the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) date the term back to the 12th century. The former gives the original meaning as a "culinary preparation consisting of minced meat or fish surrounded by dough and baked in the oven"; [1] the OED's definition is "a pie or pastry usually filled with finely minced meat, fish, vegetables, etc." [2] The French ...
It is a soft-ripened cheese sold under the forms of la Faisselle, le Paillasson or le Raffiné. [78] [79] [80] The Cailles cheese, a cheese made from fermented milk and typically used in salads, also used to be quite widespread. It now only exists in the Charlevoix and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean regions. Nowadays, there are attempts to diversify ...
Pâté chaud (French: [pate ʃo]), "hot pastry pie"), also known as patê sô, is a Vietnamese savory puff pastry. [1] The pastry is made of a light layered and flaky exterior with a meat filling. Traditionally, the filling consists of ground pork , but chicken and beef are also now commonly used.
A mulard duck, the hybrid used most frequently for foie gras production. Foie gras (French for 'fat liver'); (French: [fwa ɡʁɑ] ⓘ, English: / ˌ f w ɑː ˈ ɡ r ɑː / ⓘ) is a specialty food product made of the liver of a duck or goose.
Saucisson hanging to dry. Saucisson (French:), also saucisson sec or saucisse sèche, is a family of thick, dry-cured sausage-shaped charcuterie in French cuisine.Typically made of pork, or a mixture of pork and other meats, saucisson are a type of charcuterie similar to salami.
There are no confirmed appearances of pâté chinois before the 1930s. [2] [better source needed] This has led many to believe it was created in the 1930s, but its origins are widely debated and there are multiple hypotheses. All current theories are rejected by Jean-Pierre Lemasson, author of the book Le mystère insondable du pâté chinois.
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.
A French tacos [note 1] (US: / ˈ t ɑː k oʊ s /, UK: / ˈ t æ k oʊ s /; French: tacos français, [takos fʁɑ̃sɛ], or commonly tacos [note 2]), Lyonese tacos (French: tacos lyonnais) or matelas [1] (French for "mattress"), is a fast food dish which usually consists of a flour tortilla grilled and folded around a filling of French fries, cheese, and meat, among other deli ingredients.