Quiche

:This page is about the food; for the Native American people, see Quiché.

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"Quiche is a savoury cheesecake" - R Bell 2005

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In cooking, a quiche is a pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat or vegetables are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked.

Related Topics:
Cooking - Pie - Egg - Cream - Meat - Vegetables

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In quiche Lorraine, cream and cooked bacon are added but not cheese.

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See also pie, pastry.

Related Topics:
Pie - Pastry

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The word quiche is derived from the Lorraine dialect of the French language, and entered English in 1941.

Related Topics:
Lorraine - French language - English - 1941

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