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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Pâtisserie: French Pastry

Mille-Feuille (CC-BY-SA, Georges Seguin (Okki))






French Pastry
French Term
IPA (phonetic transcription)
English equivalent or explanation
Wikipedia Link




Pâtisserie
patisʁi
pastry OR pastry shop
Éclair
eklɛʁ
Éclair, a hotdog-shaped pastry with chocolate cream inside
Mille-feuille
mil fœj
Mille-feuille (in the US, this is sometimes called a Napoleon)
Tartelette
taʁtəlɛt
A tarte is a pie; a tartelette is a small pie = “tart” in English (-ette = “small, cute”)


Éclair (CC-BY-SA, Charles Haynes)
A tartelette (= small tart): 640px-Strawberry_tart_(CC by_Kirti_Poddar).jpg