Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
Pailleté Feuilleté
English translation:
speckled chocolate base
Added to glossary by
suezen
Mar 11, 2005 13:38
19 yrs ago
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French term
Pailleté Feuilleté
French to English
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Cooking / Culinary
origin of an expression
From a dessert in a very posh restaurant (Paris 8e)
Délice au chocolat Guanaja et Pailleté Feuilleté
Here is the chef's description:
Fondant au chocolat Guanaja dressé dans un cadre sur un pailleté-feuilleté au chocolat (gavotte écrasée additionnée de couverture au chocolat)
So basically, they crush up the gavotte biscuits (much like a "crepe dentelle" - type of light, crispy biscuit) and pour chocolate over it so that it hardens to form a base or crust for the cake.
I'm looking for an appetizing, elegant and succint way of putting this.
For now I've got "Guanaja chocolate delight on a crushed wafer crust" but the "crushed wafer crust" part doesn't sound terribly classy for this establishment... makes me think of the Oreo cookie pie crusts my mom used to make (as delicious as they were).
Would love to hear your ideas.
Délice au chocolat Guanaja et Pailleté Feuilleté
Here is the chef's description:
Fondant au chocolat Guanaja dressé dans un cadre sur un pailleté-feuilleté au chocolat (gavotte écrasée additionnée de couverture au chocolat)
So basically, they crush up the gavotte biscuits (much like a "crepe dentelle" - type of light, crispy biscuit) and pour chocolate over it so that it hardens to form a base or crust for the cake.
I'm looking for an appetizing, elegant and succint way of putting this.
For now I've got "Guanaja chocolate delight on a crushed wafer crust" but the "crushed wafer crust" part doesn't sound terribly classy for this establishment... makes me think of the Oreo cookie pie crusts my mom used to make (as delicious as they were).
Would love to hear your ideas.
Proposed translations
(English)
Change log
Sep 17, 2007 06:24: suezen changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/82300">suezen's</a> old entry - "Paillet� Feuillet�"" to ""spzcled chocolate base""
Proposed translations
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10 mins
French term (edited):
Paillet� Feuillet�
Selected
chocolate wafer base
Crunchy chocolate base
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Note added at 24 mins (2005-03-11 14:02:52 GMT)
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speckled chocolate crunch base
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Note added at 24 mins (2005-03-11 14:02:52 GMT)
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speckled chocolate crunch base
Peer comment(s):
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Ian Burley (X)
: If you combine your suggestions, you get a "crunchy chocolate wafer base" which sounds good to me.
2 hrs
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thanks iburley ... combine away!
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Tony M
: Cheers Sue! All too easy, isn't it?
919 days
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OK, it's done. Thanks Tony! Now how how did I manage that!!!
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Comment: "Many thanks to all of you for your wonderful suggestions! In the end, I went with speckled chocolate base, after much discussion with the chef, who wanted emphasis on the "flecks" in the chocolate."
18 mins
French term (edited):
Paillet� Feuillet�
flaky wafer thin crust
to soak in all that delicious chocolate...
16 mins
French term (edited):
Paillet� Feuillet�
sequined flaky pastry
That's what it means. Or flaky pastry with spangles ????
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Note added at 26 mins (2005-03-11 14:05:20 GMT)
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Sort of stuck here, given the creativity level of English cooking!
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Note added at 36 mins (2005-03-11 14:15:30 GMT)
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Can\'t you put something like chocolate Mozart -chocolate Churchill won\'t do. Then everyone can go and discover it!
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Note added at 26 mins (2005-03-11 14:05:20 GMT)
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Sort of stuck here, given the creativity level of English cooking!
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Note added at 36 mins (2005-03-11 14:15:30 GMT)
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Can\'t you put something like chocolate Mozart -chocolate Churchill won\'t do. Then everyone can go and discover it!
1 hr
chocolate smothered gavote waver crust
Kind of says it all
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3 hrs
French term (edited):
Paillet� Feuillet�
crunchy chocolate galette
On the basis that "galettes" are usually flat biscuity bases, I wondered if this might add a touch of class to what otherwise sounds a very mundane description in English. I make a sort of chocolate and crushed biscuit concoction which we call tiffin, but they're much crunchier bars than this elegant dessert!
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Nathalie Bendavid
: I agree with the idea that galette is more elegant a term...
5 hrs
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9 hrs
French term (edited):
Paillet� Feuillet�
Chocolate Galette Base
This is a composite of everyone's answers. This seems a little more elegant than "wafer" which makes me think of those inexpensive wafer cookies.
15 hrs
French term (edited):
Paillet� Feuillet�
"...on a chocolate-filled lace biscuit crust
Paillete Feuillete... we're trying to sound rich and opulent.
Discussion
www.thefreedictionary.com/speckle
Cheers!
www.boulangerie.org/doc/dpcotillon.doc