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a pastry so confident it's literally named after lightning you eat in one strike
means A long, finger-shaped choux pastry filled with cream or custard and topped with icing, usually chocolate.
from Straight from French éclair, meaning 'lightning' or 'flash.' The usual charming explanation is that the pastry is eaten in a flash — gone before the lightning fades — though the exact reason for the name is genuinely uncertain. The French éclair traces back to Latin exclarare, 'to light up,' from clarus, 'clear, bright' (the same root that brightens 'clarity' and 'declare').
- name origin
- French for lightning, eaten fast before cream escapes
- the rule
- must be glossy, never dull, says French tradition
- hollow design
- choux puffs empty, begging to be filled
- cousin status
- same dough as cream puffs, profiteroles, gougeres
- world record
- longest eclair stretched past 50 meters