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A choux pastry that survives only by being eaten before it understands its own collapse.
means A small ball of choux pastry, baked hollow and filled with cream or custard, often stacked and drenched in chocolate sauce.
from From the French profiterole, a diminutive of profit — the same 'profit' as the English word. The earlier sense was a small gift or a little bonus, a 'little profit' tucked away, and the word once named a roll baked in ashes that servants received as a perk. Over time it narrowed to the dainty filled pastry we know, the small reward still buried at its heart.
- french roots
- Name once meant a small reward or gratuity
- twice cooked
- Choux is cooked on stove, then baked
- steam magic
- It puffs from trapped steam, not yeast
- croquembouche
- Stacked into towering cones at French weddings
- savory past
- Originally filled with meat or cheese, not cream