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In French cuisine, a quiche (IPA: [ki:ʃ]) is a baked dish that is made primarily of eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as cooked chopped meat, vegetables, or cheese are often added to the egg mixture before the quiche is baked.
Quiche Lorraine is perhaps the most common variety. In addition to the eggs and cream, it includes bacon or lardons. Cheese is not an ingredient of the original Lorraine recipe, as Julia Child informed Americans: "The classic quiche Lorraine contains heavy cream, eggs and bacon, no cheese."1 The addition of Gruyère cheese makes a quiche au gruyère or a quiche vosgienne. The addition of onion to quiche Lorraine makes quiche alsacienne.
The word quiche is derived from the Lorraine Franconian dialect of the German language historically spoken in much of the region, where German Kuchen, "cake", was altered first to "küche". Typical Allemanic changes unrounded the ü and shifted the palatal "ch" to the spirant "sh", resulting in "kische", which in standard French orthography became spelled quiche2.
To this day, there is a pronounced German influence on the culture and cuisine of the Lorraine region. The origin of Quiche Lorraine is rural and the original Quiche Lorraine had a rural flair: it was cooked in a cast-iron pan and the pastry edges were not crimped. Today, Quiche Lorraine is served throughout France and has a modern look with a crimped pastry crust. Consumption of Quiche Lorraine is most prevalent in the southern regions of France, where the warm climate lends itself to lighter fare. The current version of Quiche Lorraine served in France does include cheese: either d'emmenthal or gruyere. Unlike the version served in the United States, the bacon is cubed, no onions are added and the custard base is thicker.3
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- ^ Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking (New York: Knopf) 1967 p 147.
- ^ Online Etymology Dictionary http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=quiche&searchmode=none
- ^ Philippe Jacquemin and Armand Baratto Utile et Pratique http://livre.fnac.com/a185243/Philippe-Jacquemin-Pizzas-et-quiches?PID=1&Mn=-1&Ra=-1&To=0&Nu=8&Fr=3
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