A rich unsweetened custard pie, often containing ingredients such as vegetables, cheese, or seafood.
[French, from German dialectal Küche, diminutive of German Kuchen, cake. See kuchen.]
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A rich unsweetened custard pie, often containing ingredients such as vegetables, cheese, or seafood.
A rich unsweetened custard pie, often containing ingredients such as vegetables, cheese, or seafood.
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Savoury egg custard tart in a pastry case containing a wide variety of vegetable, meat, or fish fillings. Speciality of Alsace and Lorraine in France.
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[KEESH] This dish originated in northeastern France in the region of Alsace-Lorraine. It consists of a pastry shell filled with a savory custard made of eggs, cream, seasonings and various other ingredients such as onions, mushrooms, ham, shellfish or herbs. The most notable of these savory pies is the quiche Lorraine, which has crisp bacon bits (and sometimes gruyère cheese) added to the custard filling. Quiche is classically baked in a quiche pan, which has fluted, straight sides and ranges in diameter from 8 to 12 inches (individual-size pans are 4 inches), and is about 11⁄2 inches deep. Metal quiche pans have removable bottoms, glass and porcelain "dishes" have solid bottoms. Quiche can be served as a lunch or dinner entrée, or as a first course or hors d'oeuvre.
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For the Quiche Maya, a patrilineal and patrilocal people located in twenty-six different communities across Guatemala, ancestors are important beings whose visitation in a dream is most often described as a positive experience, although they may demand appeasement in the form of religious rituals and eventual initiation into a religious organization. Human beings are classified as winak, and are distinguished from nonhumans by the feature of articulate speech. In addition, each individual possesses one of twenty faces or destinies (or "life-souls"), depending on the person's day of birth on the Mayan calendar. The life-soul arrives at the moment of birth, is located in the heart, and if it should leave the body for any reason for any length of time, the person will die.
A close connection is believed to exist between dreaming and dying, since, when one dreams, one's face or destiny leaves the body as if one were dead. For the Quiche, it is the free-soul, not the life-soul that wanders, which makes dreaming a less threatening experience. Quiche express little anxiety about dreaming, and in their language the verb for dreaming is transitive, indicating that the dreamer is conscious while dreaming.
According to the principal Quiche theory of dreams, the dreamer's free-soul, after leaving the body and wandering about in the world, meets other people's and animals' free-souls. Additionally, the Quiche claim that the gods or ancestors approach the sleeping dreamer's body and awaken his soul, which is supposed to struggle with the visitors until they give the dreamer a message. The dream experience is usually described as a nightly struggle between the dreamer's free-soul and the free-souls of the deities and ancestors, who have important messages concerning the future of people. The Quiche insist that everyone dreams every night, and daily sharing or reporting of all dreams, whether evaluated by the dreamer as good or bad, is considered an important practice. All dreams are treated as immediately and necessarily open to reporting and interpretation.
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For other uses, see Quiche (disambiguation).
In French cuisine, a quiche (IPA: [ki:ʃ]) is a baked dish that is based on a custard made from eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust. Usually, the pastry shell is blind baked before the other ingredients are added for a secondary baking period. Other ingredients such as cooked chopped meat, vegetables, or cheese are often added to the egg mixture before the quiche is baked. Quiche is generally an open pie (i.e. does not contain a pastry covering), but may include an arrangement of tomato slices or pastry off-cuts for a decorative finish. Quiche can be eaten warm but is more commonly eaten cold, making it a suitable component of the food served in a typical summer picnic.
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Although quiche is now a classic dish of French cuisine, quiche actually originated in Germany, in the medieval kingdom of Lothringen, under German rule, and which the French later renamed Lorraine. The word ‘quiche’ is from the German ‘Kuchen’, meaning cake.[1] The Lorraine Franconian dialect of the German language historically spoken in much of the region, where German Kuchen, "cake", was altered first to "küche". Typical Alemannic changes unrounded the ü and shifted the palatal "ch" to the spirant "sh", resulting in "kische", which in standard French orthography became spelled "quiche."[2]
The original ‘quiche Lorraine’ was an open pie with a filling consisting of an egg and cream custard with smoked bacon. It was only later that cheese was added to the quiche Lorraine. Add onions and you have quiche Alsacienne. The bottom crust was originally made from bread dough, but that has long since evolved into a short-crust or puff pastry crust.
Quiche became popular in England sometime after the Second World War, and in the U.S. during the 1950s. Today, one can find many varieties of quiche, from the original quiche Lorraine, to ones with broccoli, mushrooms, ham and/or seafood (primarily shellfish). Quiche can be served as an entrée, for lunch, breakfast or an evening snack.
Quiche Lorraine is perhaps the most common variety. In addition to the eggs and cream, it includes bacon or lardons. Cheese is not an ingredient of the original Lorraine recipe, as Julia Child informed Americans: "The classic quiche Lorraine contains heavy cream, eggs, and bacon, no cheese."[3] The addition of Gruyère cheese makes a quiche au gruyère or a quiche vosgienne. The addition of onion to quiche Lorraine makes quiche alsacienne.
To this day, there is a minor German influence on the cuisine of the Lorraine region. The origin of Quiche Lorraine is rural and the original Quiche Lorraine had a rustic flair: it was cooked in a cast-iron pan and the pastry edges were not crimped. Today, Quiche Lorraine is served throughout France and has a modern look with a crimped pastry crust. Consumption of Quiche Lorraine is most prevalent in the southern regions of France, where the warm climate lends itself to lighter fare. The current version of Quiche Lorraine served in France does include cheese:[citation needed] either Emmental or Gruyère. Unlike the version served in the United States, the bacon is cubed, no onions are added and the custard base is thicker.[4]
Culture
Bruce Feirstein's 1982 bestseller Real Men Don't Eat Quiche typecasts quiche as a stereotypically feminine food.
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- ^ foodreference.com
- ^ Online Etymology Dictionary http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=quiche&searchmode=none
- ^ Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking (New York: Knopf, 1967), p. 147. ISBN 9780394401522
- ^ Philippe Jacquemin and Armand Baratto Utile et Pratique http://livre.fnac.com/a185243/Philippe-Jacquemin-Pizzas-et-quiches?PID=1&Mn=-1&Ra=-1&To=0&Nu=8&Fr=3
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| Translations: Quiche |
idioms:
- quiche lorraine quiche lorraine
idioms:
- quiche lorraine quiche lorraine
Deutsch (German)
n. - Quiche (Pastete)
idioms:
- quiche lorraine Quiche Lorraine
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κις, είδος αλμυρής τάρτας
idioms:
- quiche lorraine κις λοραίν
idioms:
- quiche lorraine quiche lorraine
Português (Portuguese)
n. - empadão recheado (m)
idioms:
- quiche lorraine quiche lorraine
Русский (Russian)
пирог с начинкой
idioms:
- quiche lorraine пикантный пирог с соусом из молока и яиц
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- quiche lorraine quiche Lorraine
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
乳蛋饼
idioms:
- quiche lorraine 一种蛋饼, 乳酪火腿馅饼
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 乳蛋餅
idioms:
- quiche lorraine 一種蛋餅, 乳酪火腿餡餅
idioms:
- quiche lorraine キッシュロレーヌ
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) كعكه مكسيه بالبيض واللبن
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - קיש (פשטידה חלבית), שבט אינדיאני מבני המאיה
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