Other forms: quiches
A quiche is a savoury tart of eggs and cream baked in pastry. Quiche lorraine, a slice of quiche, bake a quiche.
Blind baking the case first is what stops a soggy bottom, and the custard should just set rather than puff — a quiche that rises has been overcooked. Quiche lorraine has bacon and no cheese in the original recipe. The word came from a German dialect for cake.
1nounquicheA savoury tart of eggs and cream baked in pastry.
“We had a slice of spinach quiche and a green salad for lunch.”
quiche is a dish.
French quiche comes from a Lorraine dialect word Kuche, from German Kuchen, a cake.
Proto-Indo-European
*gog- — ball-shaped object
Proto-Germanic
*kōkô
Old High German
kuocho
Middle High German
kuoche
gmw-rfr
Küeche — cake
French
quiche
English, today
quiche
French quiche, from Lorraine gmw-rfr 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 (“quiche”). More at cake. The sexually alluring sense originates from the 2013 Australian TV sitcom Ja'mie: Private School Girl, where it is defined as "a step above hot".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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