pie

en-noun

pie (countable and uncountable, plural pies)

→ Bulgarian: пай (paj)

→ Cantonese: 批 (pai¹)

→ Finnish: pai

→ Hebrew: פַּאי

→ Japanese: パイ

desc

→ Kashubian: paja (Canada, United States)

→ Korean: 파이 (pai)

→ Malay: pai

→ Persian: پای (pây)

→ Scottish Gaelic: pàidh

→ Spanish: pay

→ Swedish: paj

→ Tok Pisin: pai

→ Welsh: pei

→ Yiddish: פּײַ (pay)

From Middle English pye, pie, pey, perhaps from Old English *pīe (“pastry”) (compare Old English pīe, pēo (“insect, bug”)), attested in early Middle English piehus (“bakery”, literally “pie-house”) c. 1199. Relation to Medieval Latin pica, pia (“pie, pastry”) is unclear, as there are no similar terms found in any Romance languages; therefore, like Irish pióg (“pie”), the Latin term may have been simply borrowed from the English.
Some sources state the word comes from Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), though this has its controversies. However, if so, then it is a doublet of pica.

der

A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.


tadago-pie

(archaic) A special meat pie from Cornwall, made from aborted miscarried pigs.


sorbet

en-noun

sorbet (countable and uncountable, plural sorbets)

Borrowed from Middle French sorbet, from Old Italian sorbetto, from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba, “drink”).
Doublet of sherbet and sharbat, related to syrup.

After dinner we had an orange sorbet that was very refreshing.

Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, eaten as dessert or between courses of a meal.


torte

Borrowed from German Torte. Cognate to tart. Doublet of torta.

A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).


cake

cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)

Tok Pisin: kek

→ Albanian: kek

→ Arabic: كَيْك (kayk)

→ Assamese: কে’ক (këk)

→ Atong (India): kek

→ Bengali: কেক (kek)

→⇒ Burmese: ကိတ်မုန့် (kitmun.)

→ Cantonese: 𠽤 (gik¹)

→ Cebuano: keyk

→ Dhivehi: ކޭކު (kēku)

→ Dutch: kaak (spelling pronunciation), cake (also keek, older also kaaks, keeks)

→ Fijian: keke

→ Fiji Hindi: kek

→ French: cake
→ Greek: κεκ (kek)

→ Greek: κέικ (kéik)

→ Gujarati: કેક (kek)

→ Gulf Arabic: كيكة (kēka)

→ Hausa: kyât

→ Hijazi Arabic: كيكة (kēka)

→ Hindi: केक (kek)

→ Iban: kek

→ Indonesian: keik

→ Japanese: ケーキ (kēki)

→ Korean: 케익 (keik), 케이크 (keikeu)

→ Lao: ເຄັກ (khek)

→ Macanese: queique

→ Malay: kek

→ Malayalam: കേക്ക് (kēkkŭ)

→ Maori: keke

→ Nauruan: keik

→ Persian: کِیک /کیک (keyk/kêk)

→ Portuguese: queque

→ Romanian: chec

→ Russian: кек (kek)

→ Spanish: queique, queque, keke; cake

→ Swahili: keki

→ Swazi: líkhékhe

→ Tagalog: keyk, keik

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→ Thai: เค้ก (kéek)
→ Urak Lawoi': เคก (khëk)

→ Tongan: keke

→ Turkish: kek

→ Urdu: کیک (kek)

→ Volapük: kek

→ Xhosa: íkéki, ikeyiki

→ Yoruba: kéèkì

→ Zazaki: kek

→ Zulu: îkhékhe

→ Danish: kiks, (older) keks
→ Faroese: keks
→ Icelandic: kex

→ German: Keks, (obsolete) Cakes
→ Belarusian: кекс (kjeks)
→ Hungarian: keksz
→ Lithuanian: keksas
→ Macedonian: кекс (keks)
→ Polish: keks
→ Kashubian: keks
→ Vilamovian: kēks
→ Yiddish: קעקס (keks)
→ Russian: кекс (keks)
→ Chuvash: кекс (keks)
→ Crimean Tatar: keks
→ Yiddish: קעקס (keks)
→ Serbo-Croatian: kȅks, ке̏кс
→ Ukrainian: кекс (keks)

→ Greek: κέικς (kéiks)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: kjeks

Nynorsk: kjeks

→ Swedish: kex, käx (dated)
→ Finnish: keksi

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kakǭ
Old Norse kakabor.
Middle English cake
English cake
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).

etymon

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

gâteau

large cake served in slices, or a small, individual cake


waffle

The noun is borrowed from Dutch wafel (“waffle; wafer”), from Middle Dutch wafel, wafele, wavel, from Old Dutch *wāvila, from Proto-Germanic *wēbilǭ, *wēbilō, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”) (whence Dutch weven (“to weave”) and English weave; compare, from the same verbal root, German Wabe (“honeycomb”), given that the grid pattern of the traditional Dutch lent and holiday pastry strikingly resembles a honeycomb), and possibly reinforced by German Waffel (“waffle; wafer”). The English word is a doublet of wafer and gauffre.
The verb (“to smash”) derives from the manner in which batter is pressed into the shape of a waffle between the two halves of a waffle iron.

der

The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.

This takeaway counter serves up some of Hong Kong's best eggettes, the egg-shaped waffles beloved by local children and adults alike.

2017, Piera Chen, Emily Matchar, Lonely Planet Pocket Hong Kong:

(countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.

(countable, British) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.


waffle

en-verb

waffle (third-person singular simple present waffles, present participle waffling, simple past and past participle waffled)

waffles (present singular third-person)
waffling (participle present)
waffled (participle past)
waffled (past)

The verb is borrowed from Scots waffle (“to waver, flap, flutter”), from waff (“to wag, wave; to flap, flutter”) + -le (diminutive or frequentative suffix), from Middle Scots waff (“signal; gust of wind; glimpse; a flapping, waving”), from Northern Middle English wafe, waffe, a variant of waven (“to move to and fro, sway; to stray, wander; (figuratively) to follow a weaving course; (figuratively) to vacillate, waver; to move something to and fro, wave”) (whence wave), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to sway; to wander”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”).
Regarding sense 5 (“to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point”), compare Old English wæflian (“to talk foolishly”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *babalōną (“to babble, chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- (“to say”) and/or Proto-Indo-European *baba- (“to talk vaguely; to mumble”). The Oxford English Dictionary does not derive the English word waffle from this Old English word. Compare also Dutch wauwelen (“to linger, waffle, jabber, gab, chat”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

cog

Unless you have a great line in gags or repartee don't waffle on aimlessly to your audience, or make in-jokes among yourselves, the band or the compere/DJ.

1976, Tony Hatch, So you want to be in the music business, Everest Books, page 68:

Before getting down to the nitty gritty of beekeeping, most contributors to BBJ like to waffle on for a bit about the weather, the state of their garden or something equally inconsequential.

1984, “Apiary Antics- No.5”, in British bee journal, volumes 112-113, page 68:

She waffled on for ages. Usually I'd say something smart or make it obvious that I wasn't interested and couldn't be bothered listening.

2005, Bill Condon, No Worries, Univ. of Queensland Press, page 78:

The whole thing ended suddenly when the hotel manager arrived. He waffled on for a bit; this settled everyone down.

2006, Carl Storm, A Mighty Fine Way to Live and Die, Backstrap Ltd, page 8:

(transitive, intransitive) Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.

zwammen

to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble


beefcake

en-noun

beefcake (countable and uncountable, plural beefcakes)

From beef + cake. In sense 1, by analogy with cheesecake (“an image of a sexy young woman”).

Beefcake with Burgundy Mushroom Cream

1998, Jessie Tirsch, McGuire's Irish Pub Cookbook, Pelican, page 145:


parliament

parliament (countable and uncountable, plural parliaments)

From Middle English parlement, from Anglo-Norman parliament, parlement, parliment and Old French parlement (“discussion, meeting, negotiation; assembly, council”), from parler (“to speak”) + -ment (“-ment”, suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually indicating an action or state resulting from them) (from Latin -mentum). Compare Medieval Latin parlamentum, parliamentum (“discussion, meeting; council or court summoned by the monarch”), Italian parlamento and Sicilian parramentu.

cog

Palace of Westminster
Parliament of the United Kingdom

The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP.

2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-04-19:

In many countries, the legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers; a legislature.

parlement

institution with elected or appointed members

நாடாளுமன்றம்

nāṭāḷumaṉṟam

Following the general election, Jane Doe took her oath of office as a member of the nation's fifth parliament.

The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles, by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. […]

1633, John Hay, editor, The Acts Made in the First Parliament of our Most High and Dread Soveraigne Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.: Holden by Himselfe, Present in Person, with His Three Estates, at Edinburgh, upon the Twentie Eight Day of Iune, Anno Domini 1633, Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Young, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, →OCLC, title page:

[T]he army under Lambert again thrust the Rump Parliament out of doors, and commenced a new military government, by means of a committee of officers, called the Council of Safety.

1834, Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather (Waverley Tales; 49), Parker's edition, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Samuel H[ale] Parker, →OCLC, page 223:

A particular assembly of the members of such a legislature, as convened for a specific purpose or period of time (commonly designated with an ordinal number – for example, first parliament or 12th parliament – or a descriptive adjective – for example, Long Parliament, Short Parliament and Rump Parliament).

He […] was disposed to spoil little Georgy, sadly gorging the boy with apples and parliament, to the detriment of his health—until Amelia declared that George should never go out with his grandpapa unless the latter promised solemnly, and on his honour, not to give the child any cakes, lollipops, or stall produce whatever.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

A certain boy leaning up against me would not allow my elbow room, and struck me very sadly in the stomach part, though his own was full of my parliament.

1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter II, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 9:

The children had long ago found out that the kites and shuttlecocks were failures; and popular rumour spoke in deprecating terms of the parliament and gingerbread in general, comparing it to petrified sponge, or slices of pumice stone.

1846, Albert Smith, The Snob's Progress:

(historical) Parliament cake, a type of gingerbread.


croissant

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant (“crescent”), present participle of croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescent.

ubor

A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.

croissant

a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent


baba

As one of the first utterances many babies are able to say, baba (like mama, papa, and dada) has come to be used in many languages as a term for various family members:
* father: Albanian, Arabic, Western Armenian, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Greek, Marathi, Mingrelian, Nepali, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Yoruba, Shona, Zulu
* grandmother: many Slavic languages (such as Bulgarian, Russian, Czech and Polish), Romanian, Yiddish, Japanese
* grandfather: Azerbaijani, Zulu (father, grandfather)
* baby: Afrikaans, Sinhala, Hungarian
These terms often continue to be used by English speakers whose families came from one of these cultures. In some cases, they may become more widely used in localities that have been heavily influenced by an immigrant community. Some senses were extensions of one of these family terms in the original languages ("old woman" from "grandmother", "holy man" from "father"). The "cake" sense comes through French, from Polish baba (“old woman”). The Middle Eastern word baba (as in Ali Baba) is rather a term of endearment, and is ultimately derived from Persian بابا (bābā, “father”) (from Old Persian pāpa; as opposed to the Arabic words أَبُو (ʔabū) and أَب (ʔab); see also Papak), and is linguistically related to the common European word papa and the word pope, having the same Indo-European origin. The Chinese word "baba", meaning father comes from 爸爸.

A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.


snowball

From Middle English snoweball, snoweballe, snaweballe, snayballe, equivalent to snow + ball. Cognate with Scots snawbaw, German Schneeball, Luxembourgish Schnéiball, Dutch sneeuwbal, Afrikaans sneeubal, Limburgish snieëbal, West Frisian sniebal, Saterland Frisian Sneebaal, Sneebal, Swedish snöboll, Elfdalian sniųoboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.

A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.

(sex) A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.

It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs - they are simply delicious.

A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.


snowball

en-verb

snowball (third-person singular simple present snowballs, present participle snowballing, simple past and past participle snowballed)

snowballs (present singular third-person)
snowballing (participle present)
snowballed (participle past)
snowballed (past)

The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.

There's a further knock-on effect from cancelling trains. It's not unusual for train crew diagrams to include a period 'on the cushions', travelling as a passenger to get staff from one train to the next. Cancel this train and it's likely the crew won't reach their next train, so this too is cancelled. Disruption snowballs and diagrams become harder to deliver.

2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years”, in RAIL, number 974, page 4:

(intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state.


fruitcake

en-noun

fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)

From fruit + cake, first use appears c. 1687. Sense of a crazy person, c. 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, c. 1911-12).

A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.


madeleine

In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
fr:Madeleine Paulmier

Unadapted borrowing from French madeleine, from earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier, whose existence is now considered dubious.
In sense 2, used with reference to the cake's function in the extract below, taken from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

ubor

And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray […] my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane.

1981, Marcel Proust, CK Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin (translators), Swann's Way, Folio Society, published 2005, page 44:

Madeleine batter can be made in advance and refrigerated.

2003, Emily Luchetti, A Passion for Desserts, Chronicle Books, page 20:

A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.

madeleine

small gateau in the shape of a scallop shell


sundae

A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings.


turnover

en-noun

turnover (countable and uncountable, plural turnovers)

Coordinate term: pasty

They only served me one apple turnover for breakfast.

A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (usually fruit).

fritter

a pastry of a filling enclosed in a folded crust


zabaglione

zabaglione (countable and uncountable, plural zabagliones)

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/ˌzæbəˈljəʊnɪ/

Borrowed from Italian zabaglione, zabaione, possibly from Latin sabaia (“Illyrian barley beer”) (from an Illyrian word probably from Proto-Indo-European *sab- (“taste”)) + -one (augmentative suffix).

A custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine.


birthday cake

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-birthday cake.wav

A cake, often iced and decorated, made to celebrate a person's birthday.


mince pie

A pie, traditionally served around Christmas time, having a filling of mincemeat (now usually in the sweet sense) and sometimes also containing alcohol or other ingredients.

коледен пай

mincemeat-filled pie served around Christmas


apple pie

apple pie (countable and uncountable, plural apple pies)

[ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpaɪ]

/ˌæp.əlˈpɑɪ/

[ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpɑɪ]

A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.


grunt

From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”).
Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.

der

(Canada, US) A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.


gateau

en-noun

gateau (countable and uncountable, plural gateaux or gateaus)

Borrowed from French gâteau. Doublet of wastel.

a gateau of veal

(cooking, obsolete) A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould.


dessert

dessert (countable and uncountable, plural desserts)

→ Japanese: デザート (dezāto)

Borrowed from Middle French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.
Note: It was erroneously suggested (e.g. in "Glucose syrups: Technology and Applications" (Peter Hull, 2010)) that the word is derived from the name of Benjamin Delessert, the inventor of beet sugar. However, the term predates him by at least a century.

Trifle is a favourite dessert of the English, but rivalled by pavlova in Australia and New Zealand.

A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal.

ëmbëlsirë

sweet confection served as the last course of a meal


pop tart

A genericization of the brand name Pop-Tarts.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pop tart.wav

2000 January 29, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, National Public Radio
Carl Kasell will come to their house and cook his signature dish, breakfast à la Edwards, which is two pop tarts and a Benson and Hedges.


pasty

From Middle English paste, from Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pasté. Doublet of patty.

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.

пастет

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie


gata

A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.


flan

Borrowed around 1846 from French flan (“cheesecake, custard tart, flan”), or in some uses (in reference to Spanish/Latin American flans) later from Spanish flan (itself from the French), both from Old French flaon (whence also Middle English flaon, flaun (“pie; cake”)), from Late Latin fladō (“flat cake”), from Frankish *flaþō (“flat cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“broad, flat”); compare German Fladen. Akin to Old High German flado (“flat cake, offering cake”). Doublet of flathe.
Although the -n is generally believed to derive from the Late Latin accusative form (fladonem) of fladō (“flat cake”), it might alternatively derive from an inflected form of the Frankish word (such as the Frankish accusative *flaþan, or the like). For a similar case, see garden.

cog

The menu includes a number of excellent fish dishes such as the […] broccoli flan.

2004, Shawn Blore, Alexandra de Vries, Frommer's Brazil, →ISBN, page 175:

(chiefly UK, Australia) Baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. (Compare quiche.)

(chiefly US, Belize) A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries.

(numismatics) A coin die. (Compare planchet.)


flan

English, from a slip of the tongue by actor Nathan Fillion.

(some) Firefly flans call themselves Browncoats (Remember, the hot movie from Universal is out this September! :)

2005 January 29, P. Burrows, “Re: Name for Lost fans?”, in rec.arts.sf.tv (Usenet):

For what it's worth, I'm 27 and am a huge Firefly/Serenity flan.

2006 June 18, Geoff Aldrich, “Re: SciFi promotion [Was Firefly fans skew older?]”, in alt.tv.firefly (Usenet):

I'm glad this wasn't the first flan group I came across or I would never have realised the great nature of the majority of browncoasts.^([sic])

2007 January 21, Tal, “Re: Nude Jewel Staite? Close enough.”, in alt.tv.firefly (Usenet):

(informal, fandom slang) A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly.


doughnut

→ Afrikaans: donut, doughnut

→ Albanian: donut

→ Arabic: دُونَات (dūnāt)

Hijazi Arabic: دونت (dōnat)

→ Bengali: ডোনাট (ḍōnaṭ)

→ Bulgarian: донът (donǎt)

→ Burmese: ဒိုးနပ် (dui:nap)

→ Catalan: dònut

→ Cebuano: donut

→ Chinese:

desc

Cantonese: 多甩 (do¹ lat¹), 冬甩 (dung¹ lat¹)

Mandarin: 多拿滋 (duōnázī)

→ Danish: donut

→ Dutch: donut

→ French: donut

→ German: Donut, Doughnut

→ Hindi: डोनट (ḍonaṭ)

→ Indonesian: donat

→ Irish: taoschnó (calque)

→ Japanese: ドーナツ (dōnatsu), ドーナッツ (dōnattsu)

→ Korean: 도넛 (doneot)

→ Malay: donat

→ Maori: tōnati

→ Marshallese: tonaaj (via plural); to̧nōt

→ Persian: دونات (donât)

→ Portuguese: dónute, dônute (Brazil), donut (unadapted spelling)

→ Spanish: dona; dónat, dónut, donut

→ Swedish: donut

→ Tagalog: donat

→ Tausug: dunat

→ Thai: โดนัต (doo-nát), โดนัท (doo-nát) — popular spelling

→ Turkish: donut

→ Urdu: ڈونٹ (ḍonaṭ)

→ Yiddish: דאָנאַט (donat)

From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.

take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut

The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promised doughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then the doughnuts.

1865, Frank B. Goodrich, The Tribute Book, Derby & Miller, page 45:

One American student sought my help to take the work further in his school science project, in which he studied how doughnuts differ from cookies.

2003, Len Fisher, How to Dunk a Doughnut, U.S. edition, Arcade Publishing, page 2:

2018, Karen Scott, Margaret Webb, Clare Kostelnick, Long-Term Caring: Residential, Home and Community Aged Care, 4th Edition, Australia and New Zealand Edition, Elsevier Australia, page 227,
The prostate gland lies just below the bladder and is shaped like a doughnut.

A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.


brownie

en-noun

brownie (countable and uncountable, plural brownies)

→ Belarusian: бра́ўні (bráŭni)

→ Chinese: 布朗尼 (bùlǎngní)

→ French: brownie

→ German: Brownie

→ Hungarian: brownie

→ Irish: donnóg (calque)

→ Italian: brownie

→ Japanese: ブラウニー (buraunī)

→ Lithuanian: braunis

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: brownie

→ Polish: brownie

→ Portuguese: brownie

→ Russian: бра́уни (bráuni)

→ Kazakh: брауни (brauni)

→ Spanish: brownie

→ Thai: บราวนี (bpraao-níi)

→ Turkish: brownie, browni, brovni

→ Welsh: browni

From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots.

[…]if she ever found out she was dying, she'd just eat brownies all day and night until the very end.

2000, Lori Gottlieb, Stick Figure: a diary of my former self, page 173:

Rona served Althea coffee with yellow milk curdling in the center, and a hunk of brownie, and Althea said, “Thanks so much.”

2000, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, “The Visible Man”, in The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 197:

On a Saturday afternoon, my wife bought her favorite treat for dessert that evening, a gourmet, nut-filled brownie.

2005, Aaron Lazare, On Apology, unnumbered page:

After cooking the brownies until we could smell the pot, we each ate a large brownie.

2005, Steve Otto, Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie, page 228:

“If she has to list everyone from school friends to teachers, this is going to take a while, huh?” Stephanie commented, slipping a generous slice of brownie onto a plate. […] She carried a plate with a slice of brownie around and set it in front of Basil, […]

2015, Lynsay Sands, The Immortal who Loved Me, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, pages 224–225:

As their coffee and cakes arrived – Tim had opted for a slice of brownie that looked about as impressive as the table – she noticed that the initials TL were inscribed on his cufflinks, and also, confirming what Molly had told her, that he had no ring on the fourth finger of his left hand.

2017, Cressida McLaughlin, The Once in a Blue Moon Guesthouse, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 37:

John A. Simpson
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The Oxford English Dictionary
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Clarendon Press
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(usually countable, cooking, originally US) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.

It was an amusing sight to see the three of us, each with a huge hunch of “browny” (bread sweetened with brown sugar and currants) in one hand, and a lump of ice in the other, for there was no water within reach.

1883, James Edge Partington, “A Race Meeting in the Bush—A Graphic Though Ungallant Picture—Life on an Australian Stock Farm—[…]” (chapter VII), in Random Rot. A Journal of Three Years’ Wanderings about the World., Altrincham: […] [T]he Guardian Office, page 312:

They rode quietly along to the stockman’s hut, gave their message, rested their horses for half-an-hour, and had some tea without milk, and a piece of cake made of flour, fat, and sugar, commonly known as [“]browny.”

1890, E[lphinstone] Davenport Cleland, “‘The Shaking’ Mallee Tree”, in The White Kangaroo. A Tale of Colonial Life. Founded on Fact., London: Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co., […], page 57:

Four o’clock, “Smoke O!” again, and more tea and “brownie” (a bread sweetened with sugar and currants).

1890 September 20, M. Hirst Browne, “Shearing-Time in the Riverine”, in The Argus, number 13,804, Melbourne, Vic., page 13, column 6:

Roast mutton and brownie are given us to eat, and with a billy of tea beside us we are comfortable enough, prisoners and all.

1892, Gilbert Parker, “Glimpses of Australian Life: In Time of Drought”, in Round the Compass in Australia, Melbourne, Vic., […]: E[dward] W[illiam] Cole, […], part I, page 36:

Pile of “brownie” on the bare black boards at the end of the table.

1900, Henry Lawson, “‘A Rough Shed’”, in On the Track, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson, […], page 129:

Undoubtedly our Christmas dinner was a huge success—from a black fellow’s point of view it was the most sensible thing we Whites had ever organised; for half the Vealer, another huge pudding, several yards of sweet currant “brownie,” a new pipe apiece, and a few pounds of tobacco had found their way to the “humpy”; […]

[1908], Jeannie Gunn, chapter XXIII, in We of the Never-Never, London: Hutchinson & Co. […], page 251:

As he spoke I tossed some tea into a billy-can of boiling water and as we sipped at our pannikin of tea and ate at a slice of brownie, old Mirawong told me the story of Manbuk and the seven sisters of the heavens.

1959, W[illiam] E[dward] (Bill) Harney, “Of crocodiles and stars”, in Tales from the Aborigines, London: Robert Hale Limited, […], part one (Tales of Fantasy), page 40:

However, a couple of days later, I was passing near Old Jim’s camp and he called us over for a mug of tea and a hunk of brownie.

1959, H[arold] P[ercival] ‘Duke’ Tritton, Time Means Tucker, Arncliffe, N.S.W.: Akron Press, published 1984, →ISBN, pages 58–59:

Edward E[llis] Morris
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Macmillan and Co. Limited
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Benjamin E[li] Smith
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The Century Dictionary
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C[harles] T[albut] Onions
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(uncountable, cooking, Australia and New Zealand) A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.

He rose and jingled in his pockets for change and drew out two brownies. He went and set one on each of Monroe’s eyes[.]

1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 36:

A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.

(informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).

Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”).


coca

coca (usually uncountable, plural cocas)

→ Chinese: 古柯 (gǔkē)

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

кока

the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)


duff

duff (countable and uncountable, plural duffs)

Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.

Later on, all the tinned meat came to an end, likewise the potatoes, and we lived on salt meat, biscuit, and duff; this fare was served out to all the messes on board, and we, I was going to say, saloon-folk, fared no better than the fo'castle hands.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 196:

The storekeeper had sent them an unbroken case of canned plum pudding, and probably by this time he was wondering what had become of that blanky case of duff.

1901, Henry Lawson, short story The Ghosts of Many Christmases, published in Children of the Bush http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7065

Who bravely stuff
Themselves with Duff,
May laugh at Doctor's bills.

1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 87:

Dessert is as substantial as the main course, and none more so than the absolute favorite, guava duff.

A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.

They must live on sea food—a deal more of salt beef, pork, beans, and hard tack is than of any thing else, but of the food at sea well as in port it may here be said that it is ample in quantity and good enough anybody, though by no means all strawberry shortcake and cream or plum duff.

1891, John R. Spears, “The Life of a Naval Apprentice”, in The Chautauquan, volume 13:

With Christmas well on its way let's take a look at a modern version of an old favourite dessert more often than not reserved for the day we celebrate the birth of Christ: plum duff. It is just as well Christmas falls during the summer school holidays as a nipper this allowed me to be at my grandmother's home when the true traditional plum duff was made.

A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums.


duff

Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).

der

Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.


crisp

From Middle English crisp (“curly”), from Old English crisp (“curly”), from Latin crispus (“curly”). Doublet of crape and crepe.

"Go and get some crisps and pop," he said.

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 33:

Turn you inside out and lick you like a crisp packet

2014, “Every Other Freckle”, in This Is All Yours, performed by alt-J:

As I sit in front of the TV angrily eating crisps, it comes to me. I will challenge her to a race.

2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 44:

(UK, Ireland) A very thin slice of potato that has been deep fried, typically packaged and sold as a snack.

A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping


crisp

en-verb

crisp (third-person singular simple present crisps, present participle crisping, simple past and past participle crisped)

crisps (present singular third-person)
crisping (participle present)
crisped (participle past)
crisped (past)

[…] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.

1860, Nikolai Gogol, “The Night of Christmas Eve: A Legend of Little Russia”, in George Tolstoy, transl., Cossack Tales, London: Blackwood, page 1:

[…] the wheels [of the carriage] made their little crisping over the fine metal of the driveway.

1904, Harry Leon Wilson, chapter 10, in The Seeker, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 239:

1915, Clotilde Graves (as Richard Dehan), “A Dish of Macaroni” in Off Sandy Hook, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, p. 39,
[…] her light footsteps and crisping draperies retreated along the passage,

The same peculiar crisping or crackling sound […] was heard this morning in every direction […] the ‘noise accompanying the aurora,’

1915, Elisha Kent Kane, chapter 16, in Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack, New York: Outing Publishing Company, published 1916, page 291:

Jericho had placed in my hand a glass in which the bubbles broke with a crisping sound.

1948 November, Max Brand, “Honor Bright”, in The Cosmopolitan:

(intransitive, dated) To make a sharp or harsh sound.


quiche

en-noun

quiche (countable and uncountable, plural quiches)

→ Japanese: キッシュ (kisshu)

→ Korean: 키슈 (kisyu)

Borrowed from French quiche, from Lorraine Rhine Franconian Küeche (“cake”), from Middle High German kuoche (German Kuchen, English kuchen), from Old High German kuocho, kuohho, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (English cookie), from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”), whence also English cake (via Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”)). Compare Persian کوکو (kuku, “quiche”). More at cake.
The sexually alluring sense orignates from the 2013 Australian TV sitcom Ja'mie: Private School Girl, where it is defined as "a step above hot".

der

A pie made primarily of egg and cream, perhaps mixed with chopped meat or vegetables, in a pastry crust.


crunch

From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin.

A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.


pork pie

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Twinkie

The brand name is said to be a diminutive, twinkle + -ie (or otherwise modified), based on a billboard for "Twinkle Toe Shoes" in St. Louis, although there are also claims for solely one or the other. The meaning in reference to well-assimilated Asians is derived from the slur that they are "yellow on the outside, white on the inside".

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Synonym of banana: A person of East Asian descent considered to have overly assimilated and to be subservient to white authority, an East Asian race traitor.


éclair

A small chocolate-covered creme-filled pastry puff in a general oblong shape, typically larger than the miniature French version.

إِكْلِير

oblong, chocolate-covered, cream-filled pastry


cobbler

Fished for cobblers in the evening. The warbler sings its night-song.

1831 November 10, George Fletcher Moore, “The Journey”, in Martin Doyle, editor, Extracts from the Letters and Journals of George Fletcher Moore, Esq. […], London: Orr and Smith, […]; Dublin: W. Curry, Jun. & Co. […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 122:

The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines.

The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is not closely related to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins.

Also river cobbler: basa (Pangasius bocourti), an edible species of shark catfish native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins in Southeast Asia.

(US) Condica sutor, an owlet moth native to North America.


drizzle

en-verb

drizzle (third-person singular simple present drizzles, present participle drizzling, simple past and past participle drizzled)

drizzles (present singular third-person)
drizzling (participle present)
drizzled (participle past)
drizzled (past)

Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English drēosan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla.

cog

The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.

(cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.


drizzle

en-noun

drizzle (countable and uncountable, plural drizzles)

No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle.

(physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.

plovisqueig

(physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops

Stop drinking all of my drizzle!

April 19, 2013,Felicity Cloake, "How to Cook the Perfect Lemon Drizzle Cake" in The Guardian
Drizzle is not normally good news. Not when it's falling from the sky, not when it's replacing a decent helping of sauce, and especially not when it's found on a menu in close proximity to the words "balsamic vinegar". Deliciously sticky, sweet and sour lemon drizzle cake is the one, and very honourable, exception.

The rest of the day is spent trying to concentrate on ingredient labels, ordering supplies, baking some fairy cakes for a hen party and two lemon drizzles, one for a new baby and one for an old dear's birthday.

2009, Jules Stanbridge, Sugar and Spice:

(baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.


arctic roll

(British) A British dessert like a jelly roll, but with ice cream instead of jelly/jam.


ambrosia

ambrosia (countable and uncountable, plural ambrosias)

From Latin ambrosia (“food of the gods”), from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, “immortal”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βροτός (brotós, “mortal”).

af

A dessert originating in the Southern United States made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream.


babka

From a Slavic language likely via Yiddish באַבקע (babke). Compare baba, in the sense of "rum soaked cake".

A Central and Eastern European coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins; or with some single flavoring, e.g. chocolate, lemon, etc.


blintz

He carries his tray of blintzes filled with cottage cheese to the coffee urns and drains off a mug’s worth.

2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 147:

A thin blin (pancake), filled (often with sweet cheese) and folded, then fried and often served with sour cream, fruit, or a sweet sauce.


fairy cake

(UK, Ireland) A small cake baked in a small paper cup; a cupcake.


roly-poly

en-noun

roly-poly (countable and uncountable, plural roly-polys or roly-polies)

roly-polys (plural)
roly-polies (plural)

/ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/

The noun is apparently derived from roll (“to turn over and over”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. Compare rolly (“having the ability to roll, rolling”, adjective), which is attested since the 19th century.
Sense 1.7 (“mischievous or worthless person”) is possibly influenced by poll (“head; (archaic) scalp; (by extension) person”).
The adjective and adverb are attested later than the noun, and so are probably derived from it.

rolly-pooly

game in which balls are rolled or bowled into holes

[page 135] "Fanny has made the roly-poly pudding," says he; "the chops are my part. Here's a fine one; try this, Goldmore." […] [page 137] The three mutton-chops consumed by him were best of the mutton kind; the potatoes were perfect of their order; as for the roly-poly, it was too good.

1846 February 28 – 1847 February 27, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Snobs and Marriage”, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch Office, […], published 1848, →OCLC, pages 135 and 137:

And he hates rabbit, and never touches roly-poly, and I must say the beef isn't over tender; […] Dinner began and proceeded till the last piece of the roly-poly pudding was consumed, though not by Cyril; […]

1869, Emma Jane Worboise, “Mrs. Matthews’ Family”, in The Fortunes of Cyril Denham, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder & Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 190:

This is, indeed, an awful meal, and we have as yet only reached the joint, and there is a detestable, indigestible, unswallowable jam roly-poly to follow.

1873 March 26, “Rose Anna: Regina: Henry is Troubled in His Conscience”, in C[harles] H[enry] Ross, editor, Judy, or The London Serio-comic Journal, volume XII, London: Published by the proprietor […], →OCLC, page 233, column 1:

(British, also attributively) A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.

kääritty hillotäytteinen ihrasta tehty kohokas


rockbun

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A type of pastry with a crusted sugar coating.


cheesecake

en-noun

cheesecake (countable and uncountable, plural cheesecakes)

desc

تْشِيز كَيْك

→ Arabic: تْشِيز كَيْك (tšīz kayk)

→ Armenian: չիզքեյք (čʻizkʻeykʻ)

→ Azerbaijani: çizkeyk

→ Bulgarian: чийзке́йк (čijzkéjk)

→ Chinese: 起士蛋糕 (qǐshì dàngāo), 起司蛋糕 (qǐsī dàngāo), 乳酪蛋糕 (rǔlào dàngāo), 芝士蛋糕 (zhīshì dàngāo) (calque)

→ French: cheesecake, cheese-cake, cheese cake

→ Greek: τσίζκεϊκ (tsízkeïk), τσιζκέικ (tsizkéik), τσεισκέικ (tseiskéik)

→ Hijazi Arabic: تشيزكيك (tšīzkēk)

→ Hindi: चीज़केक (cīzkek)

→ Indonesian: cheesecake

→ Italian: cheesecake

→ Japanese: チーズケーキ (chīzukēki)

→ Kannada: ಚೀಜ಼್ಕೇಕ್ (cīzkēk)

→ Korean: 치즈케이크 (chijeukeikeu)

→ Mongolian: чийзкэйк (čiizkejk)

→ Persian: چیز کیک (čiz keyk)

→ Portuguese: cheesecake

→ Romanian: cheesecake

→ Russian: чи́зкейк (čízkejk), чизке́йк (čizkéjk)

→ Spanish: cheesecake

→ Swedish: cheesecake

→ Ukrainian: чізкейк (čizkejk)

From Middle English chesekake; equivalent to cheese + cake. Compare chess cake.

Cheesecake is an especially delicious dessert.

(countable and uncountable) A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.

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(countable and uncountable, obsolete) A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).

Company policy forbids displaying cheesecake in the locker rooms.

She was turning back toward the cameraman when she caught the pose of the filing clerk who was sitting on the corner of the desk with her skirt over her knees, her toes pointed down so that her crossed legs showed to advantage.
"Now what the hell are you doing sitting there sticking that nylon out at the camera?" Bertha asked.
(...) A man who had been standing over behind the filing case came out and said, "We're going to need cheesecake, Mrs. Cool. If we don't have cheesecake, the papers won't publish it."

(uncountable) Imagery of scantily clad, sexually attractive young women; pin-ups.


Jaffa cake

(chiefly British) A small, biscuit-like cake with a base of firm sponge, a layer of orange jelly, and a chocolate covering.


banoffee pie

en-noun

banoffee pie (countable and uncountable, plural banoffee pies)

Many walkers who had never travelled this route before were hugely impressed by the scenic beauty of the line, which they enjoyed along with another excellent meal of lasagne with garlic bread, followed by banoffee pie.

2023 July 12, Paul Bigland, “Walkers and helpers play a 3 Peaks blinder”, in RAIL, number 987, page 60:

A dessert made from bananas, toffee and cream on a base of crushed biscuit or similar.


s'more

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

A contraction of some more, so called because they are meant to be so tasty that you always want some more.

1990, Margaret Kenda, Cooking Wizardry for Kids
S’Mores are a traditional favorite cook-out food with Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

2003, Sheri Joseph, Bear Me Safely Over
She bit into the s’more, and the melted marshmallow goo fell over her lip, onto her chin.

2003, Cynthia Kaplan, I’m Like This
I’d had too many s’mores.

(US, Canada) A snack food made by combining graham crackers, marshmallows (frequently toasted) and chocolate, a typical camping fireside treat.


Peach Melba

Peach Melba (countable and uncountable, plural Peach Melbas)

Chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel in London in 1892 or 1893 created the dish for, and named it after, Australian opera singer Nellie Melba who took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town.

A classic French dessert, made from peaches and raspberry sauce accompanied with vanilla ice cream.

Auguste Escoffier
Nellie Melba
Savoy Hotel


cupcake

→ Cebuano: kapkeyk

→ Dutch: cupcake

→ Finnish: kuppikakku (calque)

→ German: Cupcake

→ Hebrew: קאפקייק (kápkeik)

→ Japanese: カップケーキ (kappukēki)

→ Korean: 컵케이크 (keopkeikeu)

→ Lao: ກັຜເຄ້ກ (kap khēk)

→ Portuguese: cupcake

→ Russian: капке́йк (kapkéjk)

→ Spanish: cupcake

→ Thai: คัพเค้ก (káp-kéek)

A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.


napoleon

napoleon (countable and uncountable, plural napoleons)

/nəˈpəʊlɪən/

Borrowed from French Napoléon (“given name, usually in reference to Napoleon Bonaparte”). In reference to coins, via French napoléon (“(slang) a coin that originally had the appearance of Napoleon's face in the obverse”). In reference to guns and possibly cards, in reference to Napoleon III.

bor

Fascinated, Miss Manvers thrust aside a garnished plate, took a gulp of the decoction called coffee, and attacked her napoleon.

1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 1:

(food, originally US slang) Clipping of Napoleon cake: another name for a millefeuille pastry.


danish

en-noun

danish (countable and uncountable, plural danishes)

Etymology tree
English Danish pastry
English danish
Ellipsis of Danish pastry.

etymon

Get me a coffee and a cheese danish.

Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Uh-oh, Principal Gottlieb. Looks like somebody forgot their danish, huh?
Judith Gottlieb: Aw, crap.
Allen Gregory: Three, two, one, and there's the money shot.

2011 Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2)

Danish pastry, light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese.


tatty cake

(Scotland) Alternative spelling of tattie cake


charlotte

Borrowed from French charlotte, or possibly from Middle English charlet, charlette (“dish made from eggs, meat, milk, etc.”), probably from Old French char laitée (“meat with milk”).

der

A charlotte consists of a mold lined with buttered bread, filled with a fruit mixture and baked. […] A savory charlotte, also made with a bread lining, is an excellent way to dress up ratatouille, especially if picked up from a catering shop.

1995 November 26, Florence Fabricant, “Sweet Charlottes for Dessert”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A dessert consisting of sponge cake filled with fruit, and cream or custard.


tapioca pudding

en-noun

tapioca pudding (countable and uncountable, plural tapioca puddings)


milk pudding

milk pudding (countable and uncountable, plural milk puddings)

(chiefly British) Any of several simple cooked desserts made from sweetened milk and some starchy ingredient.


bulla

Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”). Doublet of bull.

(historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.


slump

Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“to sell off”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).

cog

a blackberry slump

A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.


trifle

en-noun

trifle (countable and uncountable, plural trifles)

From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.

It is interesting to watch the surface joviality on screen while racism is layered between courses like soggy trifles.

2020 May 27, Kieran Yates, “Fifteen years of TV dinners: why Come Dine With Me has endured”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.


filo

filo (countable and uncountable, plural filos)


apple strudel

apple strudel (countable and uncountable, plural apple strudels)

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Partial calque of German Apfelstrudel, equivalent to apple + strudel.

On each plate lay a slice of apple strudel so small one could not be sure it was there.

1950, Story Parade, volume 15, page 21, column 2:

An Austrian pastry of apples, sugar, raisins, spice, etc in thin strudel dough or filo pastry.


baklava

baklava (countable and uncountable, plural baklavas or baklavalar)

Borrowed from Turkish baklava, from Ottoman Turkish باقلوا (baklava) (see for more); possibly from Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠭᠯᠠᠭᠠ (baɣlag-a, “bundle, package”).

der

It meant lifting tea towels off trays in her Muslim neighbours’ kitchens to help herself to sticky triangles of baklava, half lemon slices pressed into the syrupy pastry filled with walnuts and raisins.

2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 56:

A sweet pastry found in many cuisines of the Middle East and the Balkans, made of chopped nuts layered with phyllo pastry. [since c. 1650; modern spelling since 1800s]


halo-halo

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From Tagalog halo-halo, a reduplication of halo (“mix”).

A Philippine dessert consisting of a mixture of shaved ice and milk with various boiled sweet beans and fruits, served cold in a tall glass or bowl.


bombe

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A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.


gingerbread man

en-noun

gingerbread man (plural gingerbread men)

A biscuit/cookie in the shape of a person and flavoured with ginger.

քաղցրաբլիթե մարդուկ

cookie in the shape of a person, flavoured with ginger


gingersnap

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A type of biscuit (American: cookie) made from dough seasoned with ginger.


parfait

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From French parfait (“perfect”). Doublet of perfect, perfecto, and perfectus.

doublet

Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 379:

A French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur.

An American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass.


custard

en-noun

custard (countable and uncountable, plural custards)

奶黃 /奶黄

thick egg custard filling in Chinese steamed buns

Vanillesoße

usually does but need not contain vanilla

all over the place like a mad woman's custard

A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert; egg custard.


custard pie

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A pie made from an uncooked custard mixture added to an uncooked or partially cooked crust and then baked as a whole.

A prop used in slapstick, consisting of an open pie filled with custard or cream (or, more often nowadays, simply a paper plate covered with shaving foam or a similar substance) that is pushed into another person's face.


apple dumpling

The flowering plant Billardiera mutabilis.


apple turnover

A pastry dessert filled with pieces of sweetened apples, with the pastry folded over to enclose the filling.

appelflap

a pastry dessert filled with pieces of sweetened apples


bavarois

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/ˌbævə(ɹ)ˈwɑː/

A pudding similar to pastry cream but thickened with gelatin or isinglass instead of flour or cornstarch, and flavoured with liqueur.


puff pastry

puff pastry (countable and uncountable, plural puff pastries)

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A light, flaky pastry that is made of alternating buttery and floury dough layers by repeatedly folding the rolled pastry into many layers.


Christmas cake

Christmas cake (countable and uncountable, plural Christmas cakes)

They enjoyed music from a live saxophonist during the journey before visiting Braintree Town Hall for refreshments and Christmas cake.

2021 December 29, “Network News: Music train for dementia sufferers”, in RAIL, number 947, page 19:

A rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing, traditionally eaten at Christmas.


panettone

panettone (countable and uncountable, plural panettones or panettoni)

Borrowed from Italian panettone, from Lombard panaton, an augmentative of pan (“bread”).

I have long admired panettone, the ultimate raisin bread, the ideal toast and French toast, a great base for poached fruit, and a substitute for bread in bread pudding which redefines the dish. Panettone looks like the back of an Italian Renaissance cathedral […]

1989, The Atlantic, volume 263, page 52:

In this tasty holiday recipe, traditional panettone is stuffed with a creamy filling. This is a traditional Christmas bread recipe from Milano which can now not only be found across Italy, but worldwide.

2005, Anthony Parkinson, Italian Desserts, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 39:

A soft Italian sourdough brioche from Milan, with candied fruit, usually prepared for Christmas as a dessert.


pandoro

/panˈdɔːɹəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian pandoro (literally “golden bread”).

bor

A sweet bread loaf of Veronese origin, in the shape of a star, traditionally eaten at Christmas.

意大利黃金麵包 /意大利黄金面包

Christmas sweet bread loaf in the shape of a star


ladyfinger

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Ladyfingers soaked in liqueur are the base of tiramisu, but I suppose you could just cut up a sponge cake instead.

A small sponge cake, shaped approximately like a finger.


tiramisu

en-noun

tiramisu (countable and uncountable, plural tiramisus)

/ˌtɪɹəmɪˈsuː/

Borrowed from Italian tiramisù (literally “pick-me-up”).

bor+

Numerous variations of tiramisu exist. Some chefs use other cakes such as panettone. Although the original recipe – certified by the Italian Academy of Cuisine in 2010 – was alcohol-free, variants include alcohol such as rum or marsala.

2021 October 31, Lorenzo Tondo, “Italy’s father of tiramisu dies aged 93”, in The Guardian:

An Italian semifreddo dessert, originally from Veneto, made from ladyfinger biscuits, cocoa, mascarpone cheese, Marsala wine, eggs (or sometimes cream), sugar and espresso coffee.


semifreddo

en-noun

semifreddo (plural semifreddos or semifreddi)

semifreddos (plural)
semifreddi (plural)

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Apart from the semifreddi and granite they have coffee spongato; […]

2005, Authentic Sicily, Touring Club of Italy, →ISBN, page 164:

To serve, invert the semifreddi onto a platter and remove the plastic wrap. Drizzle some of the chocolate syrup over the tops. Using a knife dipped in hot water (and dried thoroughly), slice the semifreddi into 1-inch slices.

2012, Matt Lewis, Renato Poliafito, Baked Elements: Our Ten Favorite Ingredients, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, →ISBN:

Unmold the semifreddi onto plates.

2016, Steven Rothfeld, Israel Eats, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:


Tunis cake

(chiefly British) A sponge cake topped with a thick chocolate layer.


nonpareil

nonpareil (countable and uncountable, plural nonpareils)

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/ˌnɑnpəˈɹɛl/

From Late Middle English non-parail (“unparalleled, nonpareil”) [and other forms], from Middle French nonpareille, nonpareil (“unparalleled”) (obsolete), from non- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + pareil (“alike, like, same”). Pareil is derived from Old French pareil, from Late Latin pāriculus (“equal; like; of a number: even”), from Latin pār (“equal; like; of a number: even; suitable”) + -culus (a variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutives)). Doublet of umpire.
Noun sense 4 (size of type standardized at 6-point) is usually taken to derive from the attractive type cut by the brothers Giovanni and Gregorio De Gregori (fl. 1482–1503 and 1496–1527 respectively) for their 1498 edition of the divine offices in Venice; it was for a long time the smallest-sized type in use.

nb...

nonparaille, nonpareyl, nounparalle, nowimparaile

nonpareillo

quasi-Italian, obsolete, chiefly 17th–18th c.

I believe that letters which are less than a millimetre and a half (1/17 inch) high, will finally prove injurious to the eye. How little attention has hitherto been paid to this important subject is exemplified in the fact that even oculistic journals and books frequently contain nonpareil, or letters only a millimetre (1/25 inch) high.

1881 May 19, Hermann Cohn, “Eyes and School-Books”, in Popular Science Monthly:

A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates, antique letterpress long primer, author’s footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica).

1922 February, James Joyce, “[17]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

(uncountable, typography, chiefly historical) A size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug of this size.

nonparej

size of type standardized at 6-point; slug of this size


a la mode

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Unadapted borrowing from French à la mode (“in fashion”). The US sense was coined by polyglot restaurant owner John Gieriet in Minnesota in the 1800s though later attributed to Berry Hall and Charles Watson Townsend.

ubor

Our pie a la mode has a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.

With a bowl of beef stew, apple pie a la mode, and two cups of coffee under his belt, Gus Wilson walked leisurely back to the Model Garage.

November 1959, "Martin Bunn", Popular Science, Gus Pulls a Switch


halva

en-noun

halva (countable and uncountable, plural halvas)

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From Hebrew חלווה (khálva), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva), from Persian حلوا (halvâ), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).

Just before Christmas, Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, sent the White House a box of holiday gifts with a pointed political message. Inside were items (body lotion, halvah, olive oil) produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

2016 January 26, Eyal Press, “When ‘Made In Israel’ Is a Human Rights Abuse”, in The New York Times:

A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.


soufflé

Unadapted borrowing from French soufflé, from souffler (“to puff”).

(ceramics) Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of colour, as if blown from a bellows.


mousse

mousse (countable and uncountable, plural mousses)

→ Irish: mús

From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.

der

ham mousse

A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.


confiture

en-noun

confiture (countable and uncountable, plural confitures)

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/ˈkɑnfɪt͡ʃɚ/

a preserve or jelly/jam of candied fruit


crumble

crumble (countable and uncountable, plural crumbles)

From earlier crymble, crimble, from Middle English *crymblen, kremelen, from Old English *crymlan (“to crumble”), from *crymel (“a small crumb; crumble”), diminutive of Old English cruma (“crumb”), equivalent to crumb + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch kruimelen (“to crumble”), German Low German krömmeln (“to crumble”), German Krümel, diminutive of German Krume, German krümeln, krümmeln (“to crumble”). Alteration of vowel due to analogy with crumb.

cog

blackberry and apple crumble

A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.


koeksister

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Borrowed from Afrikaans koeksister, from Dutch koek + sissen.

2003 Orania is unveiling a statue to the koeksister, that syrupy delicacy so loved by Afrikaners. When I tell people, everyone thinks it must be a joke. — Sunday Times

(South Africa) A traditional Afrikaner confection consisting of a deep-fried twisted or plaited doughnut dipped in syrup immediately after cooking.


phyllo

en-noun

phyllo (countable and uncountable, plural phyllos)

From Greek φύλλο (fýllo, “leaf”). Doublet of phyllon, distantly also with foil, folio, and folium.

A type of dough, originating in Mediterranean cuisine, that is used in thin layers to make pastries (such as baklava and apple strudel) and pies and becomes very flaky when cooked.


Yule log

A log-shaped Christmas sponge cake, covered in chocolate, traditionally from French-speaking countries.


ice kachang

From ice + Malay kacang (“red bean”), the latter spelled in pre-1972 spelling.

ONE ICE KACHANG FIVE SPOONS PLEASE
Ice Kachang is something children in Singapore love, especially to cool off in the hot humid weather of Singapore. It is made up of ice shavings and boiled sweetened red beans and green jelly and sweet syrup drips on the mountain of ice shavings.

2021 September 20, Suchitthra Shreiyaa Lakshmi Vasu, The Divine Awakening and Miracles, Partridge Publishing Singapore, →ISBN:

Another favourite is 'Ice Kachang' (a dessert made from ice shavings combined with various syrups and fruits). The ice kachang man would wait outside schools with his push cart and the contraption which could shave the ice blocks.

2007, June Meyer, Memories of Malaya, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 183:

Li-Ching's favourite treats was the ice ball, a predecessor of ice kachang. Made of shaved ice moulded into the shape of a ball and drizzled with syrups of different flavours, children in the 1950s and 1960s loved the ice ball.

2012 August 3, Jaime Koh, Singapore Children Society, Singapore Childhood, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 92:

(Singapore, Malaysia) A dessert made from crushed ice with syrup and jelly poured on top.


munchkin

en:Munchkin (disambiguation)
munchkin
munchkin (cat)

Coined by American author L. Frank Baum in 1900 in his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Perhaps reflective of German Mensch or munch + -kin. Compare Low German Menschken and Low German Minschken

coinage

(informal) A pet name one uses for something adorable like a pet, child, or a romantic partner


snowcone

A frozen dessert consisting of crushed ice and colored fruit flavoring, usually served in a cone or a cup.


shortbread

en-noun

shortbread (countable and uncountable, plural shortbreads)

From short (“brittle, of pastry”) + bread.

A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.


meat pie

meat pie (countable and uncountable, plural meat pies)

My sister-in-law from Corsica makes the best quiche and the best meat pie in the world.

If flour ran short we can be certain it was saved for gravies, dumplings, cakes and gingerbread, and pie crust, and most particularly for meat pie.

1960, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Seedtime on the Cumberland, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, page 418:

She averted her eyes, looking toward Crispin, who ate meat pie and a large slice of roasted ox with healthy relish and without seeming to notice her discomfort.

1995, Flora Speer, For Love and Honor, Dorchester Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:

In the case of meat pies that have a jelly or stock added after cooking, the stock and meat should be sampled separately as well as together in a combined sample.

1998, W. F. Harrigan, Laboratory Methods in Food Microbiology, page 220:

Meat pies, which used to be a traditional Acadian Christmastime treat, are one of Louisiana′s least-touted specialties.

2009, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late: And the Very Best Places to Eat Them, page 179:

It was to Liubotyn station that I and my best mate Sasha once ventured on our lives' first (meaning without the adults) train ride. […] We got off at Liubotyn, then sleepy and unmistakeably rural, bought a couple of wrinkled meat pies at a station kiosk, and got back on the train.

2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46:

(non-idiomatic usage, cooking) A pie containing meat.

(a) Meat pie is cooked meat with or without cereal, condiments seasoning and water, enclosed in a case of pastry.
(b) Meat pie shall contain not less than twenty-five parts per centum of meat when determined by the prescribed method.

1979, John L. Goldring, L. W. Maher, Consumer Protection Law in Australia, page 119:

Meat pies are an Australian favourite and are sold in cake and sandwich shops from one end of the land to the other. The classic version is simple – an individual, 2-crust pie full of chopped beef in a rich gravy.

2005, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised edition, page 444:

If you think the major ingredient in most meat pies is meat you’re in for a disappointment. But some brands are meatier than others.

2006 May, Australian Consumers′ Association, Choice, page 9:

(Australia, New Zealand) A hand-sized pot pie containing largely minced meat and gravy and typically consumed as a takeaway food snack.


kisel

kisel (countable and uncountable, plural kisels)

From Russian кисе́ль (kisélʹ), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kyselь.

A dessert (sometimes consumed as a drink) made from fruit or berry juice and thickened with starch, common in Slavic and Baltic countries as well as Finland.

Benjamin Eli Smith
Kissel
The Century Dictionary
William Dwight Whitney


cream puff

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A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.

profiterola

hollow pastry filled with cream or custard

to be in the cream puff

'You still in the cream puff, or what?' I shook my head. No, I wasn't in the huff.

1992, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 338:

(slang, Scotland) A state of mild annoyance or irritation.


crème brûlée

crème brûlée (countable and uncountable, plural crème brûlées or crèmes brûlées or crèmes brûlée)

crème brûlées (plural)
crèmes brûlées (plural)
crèmes brûlée (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from French crème brûlée (literally “burnt cream”).

ubor

A dessert of custard, covered by a brittle layer of browned sugar.


semolina pudding

en-noun

semolina pudding (countable and uncountable, plural semolina puddings)

A soft dessert made by boiling a mixture of semolina, sugar and flavourings in milk.


marquise

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(cooking) A rich dessert made with dark chocolate, butter, sugar, cocoa powder, eggs, and cream.


strudel

strudel (countable and uncountable, plural strudels)

Borrowed from German Strudel (“whirlpool, strudel”).

Steffan grinned at him and pointed to the oven. “She’s got something good in there,” he said, and added sadly, “only we don’t get any till lunch.” / “Strudel,” Ruth said. “Whoever heard of eating strudel for breakfast?” / “You know, Son,” Paul said soberly, “there are certain items that come under female jurisdiction. Just why strudel is appropriate for lunch and not for breakfast is beyond mere masculine comprehension. But one must learn to accept the inevitable. Life is hard.”

1956, Jean Z. Owen, chapter III, in The Troubled Heart, Philadelphia, Pa.: Muhlenberg Press, →LCCN, page 48:

(countable and uncountable) A pastry made from multiple thin layers of dough rolled up and filled with fruit, etc.


cannoli

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/k̬ɐˈnɔːlɪ̆/

Borrowed from Italian cannoli (plural of cannolo) or Sicilian cannoli (plural of cannolu); see there for more.

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

1972, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Peter Clemenza (Richard S. Castellano):

(chiefly in the plural) A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert.

كَانُّولِي

tube of fried pastry filled with ricotta


cassata

cassata (countable and uncountable, plural cassatas)

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Borrowed from Italian cassata (“cassata siciliana”), from Sicilian cassata, probably from Vulgar Latin *cāseāta, from cāseus (“cheese”). Compare Maltese qassata (“savoury pastry with ricotta filling”), confirming that the use of ricotta cheese is what unites all of the relevant dishes (and hence probably the original meaning).

cog

A type of tutti-frutti or Neapolitan ice cream with nuts and candied fruits.


cassata siciliana

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/kəˈsɑːtə sɪt͡ʃɪliˈɑːnə/

Borrowed from Italian cassata siciliana (literally “Sicilian cassata”).

bor

A rich cake, typical of Sicily, containing liqueur layered with ricotta, candied fruit and chocolate.

كَاسَّاتَا

Sicilian cake with liqueur, ricotta, candied fruit and chocolate

كَاسَّاتَا سِيشِيلْيَانَا

kāssātā sīšīlyānā


granita

en-noun

granita (countable and uncountable, plural granitas)

From Italian granita, from granire (“to granulate”). Compare granite.

You're gonna think I'm insane, but that's actually delicious. It's kind of like a savory granita.

2024, Eitan Bernath, 0:15 from the start, in Shaved frozen cucumber tomato salad might sound absolutely insane, but it turned out to be a delicious savory granita. Don’t knock it till you try it! #shavedice #recipe #tomatoes #frozentreats #summercooking:

An Italian dessert of fruit purée etc. on crushed ice.


panna cotta

panna cotta (countable and uncountable, plural panna cottas)

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Borrowed from Italian panna cotta (literally “cooked cream”).

bor

A northern Italian dessert consisting of flavoured double cream set with gelatine, often served with fruit sauce or caramel syrup.


pastiera

Borrowed from Italian, from pasta (“pasta, dough”).

A Neapolitan tart made from wheat, eggs, and ricotta, traditionally eaten at Easter.


mascarpone

en-noun

mascarpone (usually uncountable, plural mascarpones)

Borrowed from Italian mascarpone, from Lombard.

A soft, creamy Italian cheese that is not pressed or aged; often used in desserts.


stotty

(Geordie) Alternative spelling of stottie


mooncake

From moon + cake, a calque of Mandarin 月餅 /月饼 (yuèbíng, “mooncake”), from 月 (yuè, “moon”) + 餅 /饼 (bíng, “pastry; biscuit, cookie”), probably because the pastry’s traditional round shape resembles the full moon visible during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

calque

The fifteenth Day of the eighth Moon, is ſolemniz'd by the Chineſes with great feaſting and rejoycing. […] To this purpoſe, the preceding Days they ſend to one another Preſents of little Loaves and Sugar-Cakes, which they call Yue Pim, or Moon-Cakes. They are round, but the biggeſt, which are about two hands breadth in diameter, and repreſent the Full Moon, have every one a Hare in the middle made of a Paſt of Walnuts, Almonds, Pine-Apple-Kernels and other Indgredients. Theſe they eat by the Light of the moon; the Richer ſort having their Muſick alſo playing about 'em, which is very good.

1688, Gabriel Magaillans [i.e., Gabriel de Magalhães], “Of Several Other Palaces, and Some Temples Erected within the Same Enclosures”, in [anonymous], transl., A New History of China, Containing a Description of the Most Considerable Particulars of that Vast Empire. […], London: […] Thomas Newborough, […], →OCLC, page 318:

Mei-kwei 玫丨 [i.e., 玫瑰] name of a pearl; also of a round cake, called the moon-cake, eaten at the harvest moon; […]

1819, R[obert] Morrison, “瑰 [guī]”, in A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, […], part II, volume I, Macao: […] East India Company’s Press, by P[eter] P[erring] Thoms, →OCLC, entry number 6772, page 507, column 3:

The 15th day of the 8th moon is the 中秋 mid autumn feast. […] The cake shops are cleared of other stock, and nothing is to be bought in them for many days but the moon cakes. The moon cake—I am afraid I cannot convey an idea in words, of the delicacy of this exquisite morceau. I merely give its composition, and leave the rest to the imagination of the reader. A small pie in shape of a pork pie, with a crust not quite so tough as well tanned leather, filled with lumps of pork fat mixed with sugar, almonds, chopped walnuts, sesamum, and other varieties of seed.

1870 December, F. H. Ewer, “Some Account of Festivals in Canton”, in Justus Doolittle, editor, The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 3, number 7, Foochow, Fukien, China: Rozario, Marcal & Co., published 1871, →OCLC, paragraph VII, page 187, column 2:

[M]aybe his mother has promised him a mango or a moon-cake if he would be good; […]

1890 February, Yan Phou Lee, “The Boys and Girls of China”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XVII, part I, number 4, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 362, column 2:

The emblematical pastry of the period, the moon cake, has for its ingredients a little bit of everything grown during all the seasons of the year. […] Indeed, it is the nearest thing to pie the Chinese cookery affords. Bits of pork, cabbage, pumpkin, figs, fruit and fowl baked together in a cast-iron crust, seasoned with pork fat, may not be appetizing to the Caucasian taste, but they tickle the palate of a Chinaman into epicurean laughter and make him believe he is enlarging his mind proportionately with his waist.

1893 April, Don Seitz, “A Celestial Farm on Long Island”, in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume XXXV, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, […], →OCLC, page 495, column 2:

The servants had already packed and loaded a rickshaw with the day's basic provisions: […] sweaty earthen jars of preserved meats and vegetables; stacks of red boxes lined with four mooncakes each; and of course, sleeping mats for our afternoon map.

1989, Amy Tan, “Ying-Ying St. Clair: The Moon Lady”, in The Joy Luck Club, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 73:

The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruit cakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds, lotus seeds, almonds, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels, and lard. A golden yolk from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled into a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a "complete year"—that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary moon.

1989, K. S. Tom, “Celebrations and Festivals”, in Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom, Honolulu, Hi.: Hawaii Chinese History Center, published 2000, →ISBN, page 40, column 2:

During the year we gathered together in the coolie room a few times to celebrate certain festive occasions, like the Ghost Month or the Mooncake Festival. If you had money to spare, you would buy some food, for example mooncakes to celebrate with your sisters.

1994, Claire Chiang, “Female Migrants in Singapore: Towards a Strategy of Pragmatism and Coping”, in Maria Jaschok, Suzanne Miers, editors, Women and Chinese Patriarchy: Submission, Servitude and Escape, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press; London: Zed Books, →ISBN, part III (Social Remedies and Avenues of Escape), page 245:

[S]he just said, 'The mooncake, if don't eat, must throw away. But like that waste money, very gek sim.' I didn't want to hurt her heart, so I ate the cake. My mother watched me eat the mooncake. 'Do you like it?'

1997, Hwee Hwee Tan, Foreign Bodies […], 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, published January 2000, →ISBN, page 149:

Fruit mince moon cakes […] Over the years, the Chinese moon cake has evolved into a variety of treats with different fillings. To cater to the health-conscious, many bakeries also offer miniature moon cakes and sugar-free moon cakes. I have used a fruit mince filling to make these moon cakes a little more familiar to the European palate, but you do need a moon cake mould to make these.

2007, Dean Brettschneider, “Pastries”, in Global Baker: Inspirational Breads, Cakes, Pastries and Desserts with International Influences, new edition, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, published 2020, →ISBN, page 120:

Remember the overthrow of the Manchus, when messages hidden in moon cakes roused the people to bring arms to the meeting place.

2008, Chin Woon Ping, “Mooncakes and the Moon”, in Hakka Soul: Memories, Migrations, and Meals, Singapore: NUS Press, →ISBN, page 29:

Tea and moon-cakes were served after dinner. The cakes came in square, octagonal and round shapes, each one about two inches thick and covered in a soft, brown skin. Emily cut them into quarter slices and handed them round.

2012, Tan Twan Eng, chapter 10, in The Garden of Evening Mists, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Myrmidon Books, →ISBN, page 143:

A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).

كَعْكَة اَلْقَمَر

Chinese pastry usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival


pie in the sky

The phrase is originally from the song “The Preacher and the Slave” (1911) by Swedish-American labor activist and songwriter Joe Hill (1879–1915), which he wrote as a parody of the Salvation Army hymn “In the Sweet By-and-By” (published 1868). The song criticizes the Salvation Army for focusing on people’s salvation rather than on their material needs:
: You will eat, bye and bye,
: In that glorious land above the sky;
: Work and pray, live on hay,
: You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.

Don't you think I have anything better to do than go scrambling around hundreds of square miles of the toughest wilderness in the state looking for pie in the sky?

1950, Anya Seton [pseudonym; Anya Seton Chase], Foxfire, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin; republished Boston, Mass.: Mariner Books, 2015, →ISBN, page 124:

Old Hare Krishna got nothing on you / Just keep you crazy with nothing to do / Keep you occupied with pie in the sky

1970, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “I Found Out”, in John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band:

[M]ost Americans are chronically materialistic and optimistic, more interested in short-range than long-range prospects, and have been for many generations. Pie on the table today or, at the latest, tomorrow—apple pie, mince pie, pecan pie, apricot pie, coconut cream pie, lemon meringue pie, peach cobbler pie, blueberry, blackberry, huckleberry, and pizza pie—that is what they want, not "pie in the sky," whether the source of that promise be Christianity or Marxism.

1994, Alfred W. Crosby[, Jr.], “Demography, Maize, Land, and the American Character”, in Germs, Seeds & Animals: Studies in Ecological History (Sources and Studies in World History), Armonk, N.Y., London: M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 167:

[…] I grew in the House Full of Practical People, so any grand, dream-chasing pursuit has always struck me as sort of pie in the sky.

2015, Sophie Hudson, “The Brat Pack Movies Didn’t Really Cover this Part”, in Home is Where My People Are: The Roads that Lead Us to Where We Belong, Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 117:

Ah, I can hear the objectors say, all this is pie in the sky and too expensive. In fact, according to Lord Burns, "this is all perfectly feasible at a reasonable cost".

2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 57:

(idiomatic) A fanciful notion; an unrealistic or ludicrous concept; the illusory promise of a desired outcome that is unlikely to happen.

In the Sweet By-and-By
Joe Hill (activist)
The Preacher and the Slave


pound cake

en-noun

pound cake (countable and uncountable, plural pound cakes)

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But when I got to Anita Bryant′s pound cake, I stopped looking. Her recipe is my favorite so far. The cream isn′t quite authentic—real pound cakes are supposed to contain only butter, sugar, eggs and flour—but it does make the cake′s texture meltier.

1993, Ann Hodgman, Beat This! Cookbook, published 1999, page 166:

Pound cakes, butter cakes with a tender fine crumb, are English in origin. In the 1700s and 1800s, the basic cake formula was based on the pound cake—butter, sugar, flour, and eggs in equal proportions by weight, with no chemical leavening added.

2002, Greg Patent, Baking in America, page 159:

Satisfied her aunt had things under control, Addy put on the coffee and sliced and arranged the pound cake on a cookie sheet.

2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, unnumbered page:

(US) A dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.

磅蛋糕

dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar


religieuse

A type of eclair made of two choux pastry cases, the smaller fixed atop of the other.


gingerbread

gingerbread (countable and uncountable, plural gingerbreads)

/ˈd͡ʒɪn.(d͡)ʒəˌbɹɛd/

/ˈd͡ʒɪn.d͡ʒɚˌbɹɛd/

From Middle English gyngebred, gyngebrede, from Old French gingembras, gingimbrat (“preserved ginger”), from Medieval Latin *gingimbrātus (“gingered”, presumably referring to ginger that perhaps had a pharmaceutical use for some medicinal preparation), with intrusive m added to gingiber, from Latin zingiber (“ginger”), of earlier Sanskrit origin, through Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis). The third syllable was early confounded with bread, and the insertion of an r in the second syllable completed the semblance of a compound word: ginger + bread.

der

(figurative, obsolete) Something ersatz; something showy but insubstantial.


compote

Borrowed from French compote. Doublet of composite, compost, and kompot.

doublet

A dessert made of fruit cooked in sugary syrup.


sponge cake

en-noun

sponge cake (countable and uncountable, plural sponge cakes)

I made a sponge cake the other day. It was a disaster: I forgot the baking powder! It didn't rise!

A light, soft, baked dessert (commonly layered with cream and jam) that is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, and has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to that of a sea sponge.

pandispanjë

type of soft cake made from flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, with a spongy structure


strawberry shortcake

strawberry shortcake (countable and uncountable, plural strawberry shortcakes)

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A dessert made using a sweet biscuit-like cake and topped with strawberries and/or a strawberry-flavored sauce.


barfi

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Borrowed from Hindustani برفی / बर्फ़ी (barfī).

Mr. Alam and his staff often insist that visitors enjoy a free treat like chocolate barfi, condensed milk mixed with chocolate, or jalebis, deep fried rice flour coated in a sugary syrup, while they shop. “I want my customers to feel welcome and offering mithai is a way to show hospitality,” Mr. Alam said.

2018 January 17, Shivani Vora, “A Go-To Grocery for Indian Cooks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

An Indian dessert made from sweetened, condensed milk flavoured with fruit and spices.


Alice B. Toklas brownie

Alice B. Toklas brownie (plural Alice B. Toklas brownies)

Named after American artist Alice Babette Toklas (1877–1967; the life partner of Gertrude Stein), whose The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) included a recipe for fudge containing cannabis.

A sweet cake or biscuit made with cannabis.

Gertrude Stein
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book


tatty scone

(Scotland) Alternative spelling of tattie scone


syllabub

syllabub (countable and uncountable, plural syllabubs)

Origin unknown; the spelling may have been influenced by the unrelated word syllable.

I shall yet think it a diminution to our happiness, to miss of half our companions and compotators of syllabub, not to have Mr. Newsham and his dogs, and his preceptors, and his dearly-beloved cousin, and his mathematics, and his Greek, and his horses.

1731 August 23, Alexander Pope, William Roscoe, “Letter VIII. To John Knight, Esq.”, in The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. […], volume IX, London: […] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington [et al.], published 1824, →OCLC, page 438:

In the evening I ſhall hope for the honour of your Lordſhip's company to take a diſh of tea there, or a ſullabub warm from the cow.

1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 28:

Whip Syllabubs. Take a Pint of thin Cream, rub a Lump of Loaf Sugar on the Out-ſide of a Lemon, and ſweeten it to your Taſte, then put in the Juice of a Lemon, and a Glaſs of Madeira Wine, or French Brandy, mill it to a Froth with a Chocolate Mill, and take it off as it riſes, and lay it upon a Hair Sieve, then fill one half of your Poſſet Glaſſes, a little more than half full with White Wine, and the other half of your Glaſſes a little more than half full of Red Wine, then lay on your Froth as high as you can, but obſerve that it is well drained on your Sieve, or it will mix with your Wine, and ſpoil your Syllabubs.

1769, Elizabeth Raffald, “Observations on Making Decorations for a Table”, in The Experienced English House-keeper, […], Manchester: […] J. Harrop, for the author, and sold by Messrs. Fletcher and Anderson, […]; and by Eliz. Raffald, […], →OCLC, pages 183–184:

To Make a Syllabub under the Cow. Put a bottle of either red or white wine, ale, or cyder, into a china bowl, sweeten it with sugar, and grate in some nutmeg; then hold it under the cow, and milk into it till it has a fine froth at the top; strew over it a handful of currants, clean washed and picked, and plumped before the fire. You may make this syllabub at home, by having new milk made as warm as from the cow, and pouring it out of a tea pot, or any other vessel with a spout, holding your hand very high.

1800, H. Glass [Hannah Glasse], Maria Wilson, “Syllabubs, Blanc-mange, Flummery, &c.”, in The Complete Confectioner; or, Housekeeper's Guide: To a Simple and Speedy Method of Understanding the Whole Art of Confectionary; …, London: […] J. W. Myers, […], for West and Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 184–185:

London Syllabub. Put a pint and a half of port or white wine into a bowl, nutmeg grated, and a good deal of sugar, then milk into it near two quarts of milk, frothed up. If the wine be not rather sharp, it will require more for this quantity of milk. In Devonshire clouted cream is put on the top, and pounded cinnamon and sugar.

1824, “a lady” [Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell], “London Syllabub”, in A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed upon Principles of Economy: and Adapted to the Use of Private Families, new edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 286:

[A]s small boys, we pelt one another and the village school-girls and our nursemaids and young lady cousins with they hay, till, hot and weary, we retire to tea or syllabub beneath the shade of some great oak or elm standing up like a monarch out of the fair pasture; […]

1860 July, Thomas Hughes, “Tom Brown at Oxford. Chapter XXIII. The Englebourn Constable.”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan's Magazine, volume II, number 9, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. and 23, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, page 211, column 2:

[H]is kind mother, when she fancied the croquet was flagging, thought of a sillabub—and lo! in walked a meek looking cow, adorned with flowers, and furnished the party with a most fragrant and most refreshing draught.

1870, “Una” [pseudonym; Mary Anne McMullen Ford], “The Departure”, in Echoes of the Past from a Retired Hamlet. A Tale Founded on Fact, London: Hatchards, →OCLC, page 14:

A drink dating back to the 16th century consisting primarily of milk curdled with an alcoholic beverage or some acid such as lemon juice, which is usually then sweetened and spiced.

Mother by hys sonne he hathe sende me a letter / Promysynge hereafter to be to vs better / And you and I with my greate clubbe / Muste walke to him and eate a solybubbe / and we shall make merye / and synge tyrle on the berye […]

c. 1537, Thersites; published in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Two Interludes: Jack Jugler and Thersytes, Kent: […] [A]t the private Press of Lee Priory; by John Warwick, 1820, OCLC 32861772, page 65

To make Everlasting Syllabubs. Take three pints of the thickest and sweetest cream you can get, a pint of rhenish, half a pint of sack, three lemons, near a pound of double refined sugar, beat and sift your sugar, and put it to the cream; grate off the yellow rind of three lemons, put that in, and squeeze the juice of the three lemons into your wine; put that to the cream, beat all together with a whisk just half an hour, then take it up all together with a spoon, and fill your glasses.

1800, H. Glass [Hannah Glasse], Maria Wilson, “Syllabubs, Blanc-mange, Flummery, &c.”, in The Complete Confectioner; or, Housekeeper's Guide: To a Simple and Speedy Method of Understanding the Whole Art of Confectionary; …, London: […] J. W. Myers, […], for West and Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 183–184:

Everlasting, or Solid, Syllabubs. Mix a quart of thick raw cream, one pound of refined sugar, a pint and a half of fine raisin wine, in a deep pan; put to it the grated peel and the juice of three lemons. Beat, or whisk it one way, half an hour; then put it on a sieve with a bit of muslin laid smooth in the shallow end till next day. Put it in glasses. It will keep good, in a cool place, ten days.

1824, “a lady” [Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell], “Everlasting, or Solid, Syllabubs”, in A New System of Domestic Cookery; […], new edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 287:

"Oh, I do dote on custard," remarks Mrs. Goram, with a mincing smirk, "it is such an improvement to a tart." / "I dote on syllabub," interposed Miss Jemima, sentimentally.

1873 December 6, “A London Pilgrimage among the Boarding-Houses. VI. An Artistic Shelter.”, in Charles Dickens, Jr., editor, All the Year Round, A Weekly Journal (New Series), volume XI, number 262, London: […] Chapman & Hall, […], published 1874, →OCLC, page 135, column 2:

Mushroom soup. Curried chicken and rice. Syllabubs. A savoury of chicken livers and bacon.

1957 November, Agatha Christie, 4.50 from Paddington, London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, →OCLC:

A dessert pudding derived from the drink.

I like Paul's plain style best. Better to feed the appetite of the hungry, than to tickle the fancies of the whimsical. This breed of preachers are apt soon to preach themselves out of breath, and come to nothing. May you and I never be the retailers of such whipt-syllabub divinity—better keep a cook's-shop to satisfy the craving appetite, than a confectioner's-shop to regale the depraved appetite of the dainty. Good brown-bread preaching is the best after all.

1831 February 4, Rowland Hill, Edwin Sidney, “Letters of Mr. Rowland Hill”, in The Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill, A.M., London: Baldwin & Cradock, […], published 1834, page 367:

The truth is, the members indulged in too flippant a tone of discussion. The papers read every Saturday evening were characterized less by depth than buffoonery. They were all whipped syllabub. There was no investigation of first causes, first principles. There was no investigation of anything at all.

1838 November, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Psyche Zenobia”, in The American Museum of Science, Literature, and the Arts, volume I, pages 301–317:

(dated, figuratively) Something lacking substance; something frothy, insubstantial, or lightweight.


plum pudding

plum pudding (countable and uncountable, plural plum puddings)

In 1914, the Hendon and Finchley Times published a piece titled 'People who have no Christmas'. An engine-driver's comment was this: "For many years now I have never enjoyed a real Christmas. My engine has claimed me on this day, and my only regret is that I am not attached to a slow goods train, so that I could snatch time to eat some plum-pudding."

2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:

A pudding, cooked by boiling or steaming, containing a large amount of dried fruit.

李子布丁

pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit


oatcake

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Any of many flat biscuits, or cakes, made from oatmeal.


khurma

An Indian dessert made of fried dough coated in sugar.


banana split

banana split (countable and uncountable, plural banana splits)

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A dessert or sundae containing a banana cut in half lengthwise (split), ice cream and various toppings which may include sauces, nuts or fruit.

香蕉船

A dessert containing a banana cut in half


shepherd's pie

shepherd's pie (countable and uncountable, plural shepherd's pies)

Here am I / Tiny Fly / May I share your Shepherd's Pie?

1968, “The Hungry Intruder”, in Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, performed by Small Faces:

A meat pie having a mashed potato crust, especially one made with lamb or mutton.


cream pie

cream pie (countable and uncountable, plural cream pies)

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The young men and women slinging plate lunches and mammoth slices of cream pie on the tables recall the energetic waitresses from the good old days.

1993, Michael Wallis, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America’s Heartland, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 44:

(originally Canada, US) A pie, usually filled with fruit, topped with whipped cream.


cottage pie

cottage pie (countable and uncountable, plural cottage pies)

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Cottage Pie.— Mince any kind of cold meat together (beef, mutton, veal, pork, or lamb), put it about an inch or and inch and a half deep in a pie dish, and cover it with gravy; don't spare salt and pepper; cover it over with mashed potatoes smooth at the top, and cut it across in diamonds with a knife; bake till it is crisp and brown at the top.

1873, Godey's Magazine, volumes 86-87, page 82:

The recipes are of dishes suitable to the varying means of working men, such as cottage pie, haricot beans, scrap-bread pudding, Exeter stew, poor man's goose, and many others, combining economy and palatableness.

1883, Fanny L. Calder, “Practical Cookery in Elementary Schools”, in Good Words, page 60:

When cold they are used for russoles, minced cutlets, croquettes, cottage pies, and souffles.

1903 January, Mary Caldwell, “The Diet Kitchen”, in The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, volume 32, page 184:

So it was the Kawaki Tribe's intention to bake a cottage pie on an open campfire to scare off the queen of the witches, and without Moussaka to give orders, the witches would have no idea what to do, working with their own initiative.

2013, Lauren West, The Wrath of Margaret, page 81:

A meat pie having a mashed potato crust covering a mixture of beef (typically minced) and vegetables.


floating island

floating island (plural floating islands)

A French cold dessert consisting of an "island" of meringue, made of egg whites and sugar, floating in a "sea" of custard.


profiterole

/pɹəˈfɪtəɹoʊl/

Dover sole, and Oeufs Mornay
 Profiteroles and Peach Flambe
 The waiters dance on fingertips
 The nights we dine at Hotel Ritz

1973, “Grand Hotel”, in Grand Hotel, performed by Procol Harum:

A small, hollow case of choux pastry with a filling.


wedding cake

wedding cake (countable and uncountable, plural wedding cakes)

A decorated cake, often in several tiers and with a model bride and groom, that is cut by the couple as part of a wedding ceremony and distributed to the guests.

wedding pie

historical antecedent to the wedding cake


figgy-dowdy

A sort of sweet pudding, containing a large proportion of suet or pork fat, with raisins, currants and liquor.