Quiche (English pronunciation: /ˈkiːʃ/; KEESH) is a savory, open-faced pastry crust dish with a filling of savory custard with cheese, meat and vegetables.
The quiche is sometimes regarded as the savory equivalent of the sweet custard tart.
The word quiche comes from French, which ultimately borrowed the word from Lorraine Franconian Küeche ‘cake’ (cf. German Kuchen). Central Franconian typically unrounded the ü (/y/) and shifted the fricative "c...
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Quiche (English pronunciation: /ˈkiːʃ/; KEESH) is a savory, open-faced pastry crust dish with a filling of savory custard with cheese, meat and vegetables.
The quiche is sometimes regarded as the savory equivalent of the sweet custard tart.
The word quiche comes from French, which ultimately borrowed the word from Lorraine Franconian Küeche ‘cake’ (cf. German Kuchen). Central Franconian typically unrounded the ü (/y/) and shifted the fricative "ch" (/ç/) to "sh" ([ʃ]), resulting in "kishe", which in standard French spelling gives "quiche."
Today, quiche is considered as typically French. However, savoury custards in pastry were known in English cuisine at least as early as the fourteenth century. Recipes for custards baked in pastry containing meat, fish and fruit are referred to Crustardes of flessh and Crustade in the fourteenth-century The Forme of Cury and in fifteenth-century cookbooks as well.
Quiche has a pastry crust and a filling of eggs and milk or cream which, when baked,...
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