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‖ poffertje|ˈpɒfərtjə|
Also (S. Afr.) poffartje, poffertjie |-cə|.
[a. Du. poffertje, Afrikaans poffertjie, f. Fr. pouffer to blow up.]
A small light doughnut or fritter dusted with sugar. Also attrib.
1872Cape Monthly Mag. V. 230 Shall we take offence if an English host..set before our craving appetite..the dainty though untranslatable pumpkin ‘poffartjes’? 1890Cent. Mag. Nov. 49 Beside her..sat Jan Wisenkerke watching a buxom darky in a scarlet turban frying poffertjes. Ibid., The kitchen walls were covered with..waffle-irons, poffertje pans. 1905Speaker 11 Mar. 563/1 Poffertjes..are little round pancaky blobs, twisted and covered with butter and sugar. 1942H. W. Van Loon Van Loon's Lives 850 There is no use trying to describe them to outsiders, for poffertjes are the one dish that waxes only in the Low Countries. They are a cross between a very small kind of pancake and a fritter and are the main delicacy of..village fairs. 1949[see melktert]. 1974D. Winsor Death Convention viii. 68, I took a poffertje. It was a rather basic lump of dough fried in butter and dusted in icing sugar. |