Quiche

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

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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.

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

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See also pie, pastry.

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

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Cooking: Cooking is the act of preparing food for consumption. It encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to improve the flavour and/or digestibility of food. It generally requires the selection, measurement and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure in an effort ...

Pie: A pie is a baked dish, with a baked shell usually made of pastry that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredient. Pies can be either 'one-crust', where the filling is placed in a dish and ...

Cream: Cream can refer to:...

Quiche related Images and Photos (experimental)

Brightly Painted Corner House in Chinique Quiche Guatemala