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History of Quiche

BY stEVE HEIKKILA

Custard is good. Pie is good. Custard
pie? Custard pie is quiche, and quiche is
really good. That’s all you need to know.
Nevertheless, you have questions, such as,
“Is quiche French?” The answer is no.
Well, it’s complicated. Stay with me.
There’s a roasted garlic and tomato quiche
recipe in it for you.
The Wikipedia entry for quiche, which I
suspect was written by an English person,
notes that the English were eating custard
pastries as early as the 14th century. So, is
quiche English? No.

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Local Moving Specialist First off, a creme-filled donut is a custard The answer lies in quiche’s original
Celebrating 70 Years pastry, but it ain’t quiche, know what I mean? form: Quiche Lorraine. Quiche Lorraine is
In Business Also, if quiche were English, it wouldn’t filled with smoked pork lardons and cheese.
be called quiche. With disturbing English Basically a bacon and egg pie.
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“clotted eggy tart” or something disgusting Alsace-Lorraine, a region on the west-
like that. In 14th century Middle English, that ern edge of France. So that makes quiche
would be “goode cloted egge teart.” French, right? Not so fast!
A stronger case can be made for quiche Alsace and Lorraine were once regions
being German. This is based on etymology. within the Holy Roman Empire, and many
One Company, One Solution The word “quiche” is a French corrup- of the people who lived there spoke German
tion of the German word kuchen (cake). (Germany hadn’t been invented yet). French
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