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‖ gâteau|gato, ˈgætəʊ|
Also gateau.
[F. gâteau cake:—OF. gastel: see wastel.]
A cake or pudding; now usu. a large rich cake often filled with cream, or cream and fruit, and highly decorated; also, meat or fish baked and served in the form of a cake (see also quot. 1861). veal gâteau: minced veal made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould.
1845E. Acton Mod. Cook xviii. 473 (heading) A French Rice Pudding, or Gateau de Riz. Ibid. 474 It will..turn out..having the appearance of a cake... An admirable variety of this Gâteau is made with cocoa-nut flavoured milk. 1849Thackeray Pendennis I. xxiv. 232 A basket containing little gateaux of apricots. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 45 Gâteau, a cake, correctly speaking; but used sometimes to denote a pudding and a kind of tart. Ibid. 680 French rice pudding, or gateau de riz. 1883Cassell's Fam. Mag. Sept. 602/2 Any dish that has a baked cake for its foundation, if served in its original shape, may be called a gâteau. 1897Home Notes 16 Oct. 28 Veal Gâteau. 1906Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. lxvii. 1754 Gateau of minced meat. 1932Edinburgh Bk. Plain Cookery Recipes 51 Gâteau of Fish. 1955M. Hastings Cork & Serpent v. 64 Bread and butter, tea-cakes, and gateaux. 1960C. Dale Spring of Love i. 16 Having something else—some gateau, an ice-cream? |