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profiteˈrole
In 6 prophitrole, 8 profitrolle, 20 also profiterolle.
[a. F. profiterole (Littré), f. profit profit n. + -erole, dim. suffix. In Cotgrave pourfiterolle ‘a cake baked vnder hot imbers’, and profiterolle, the latter also explained (in pl.) as ‘the small vayles, as drinking money, points, pinnes, &c., gotten by a valet or groome in his maisters seruice’. The etymological sense is thus ‘small gains’.]
†a. Some kind of cooked food: see etym. and quots. 1515, 1727.
b. Now spec. a small hollow case of choux pastry usu. filled with cream and served with chocolate sauce.
1515Barclay Egloges iv. (1570) C iv b/2 To toste white sheuers and to make prophitroles And after talking oft time to fill the bowles. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Carp, They likewise make a pottage of profitrolles with Carp flesh minced. 1884F. J. Deliee Franco-Amer. Cookery Bk. 131 Range the profiteroles in pyramid form in the centre. 1889A. B. Marshall Cookery Bk. xiv. 315 Chocolate profiteroles... Make a choux pastry..and force it out from the bag on to a dry baking tin in shapes about the size of a small button mushroom. 1906Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. lxii. 1667 Profiteroles (Fr.), a kind of light cake, baked in hot ashes, and filled with cream or custard. 1949N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate ii. vi. 264 Chocolate profiterolles with real cream. 1960F. Raphael Limits of Love i. x. 129 Between dances, Andrew and Julia ate..chocolate profiteroles and hot sausages. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 25 Aug. 42/3, I had three puddings (40p plus each); first profiteroles which were a credit to the pâtissier, Patrice. |