the.com/mille feuille
A thousand layers of pastry whose only flaw is being impossible to eat with dignity.
means A French pastry of crisp puff pastry stacked in thin layers with cream or custard between them, often glazed on top.
from Straight from French, where it means 'a thousand leaves' (or 'sheets') — mille meaning 'thousand' and feuille meaning 'leaf,' both descended from Latin (mille and folium). The name is happy exaggeration for the way puff pastry bakes into countless paper-thin layers; in English-speaking countries it's also known as a 'napoleon,' though that name has nothing reliably to do with the emperor and is itself of murky origin.
- name math
- French for a thousand leaves, slight exaggeration
- real layers
- Three puff sheets yield roughly 729 layers
- alias
- Called napoleon, though Napoleon had nothing to do with it
- engineering
- Bakers struggle to keep it from collapsing or sliding
- icing pattern
- That marbled top is dragged chocolate through fondant