gâteaun.
/ˈɡatəʊ/ A cake or pudding; now usually 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. 18611). veal gâteau n. minced veal made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould.
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spice-cake1530
sugar-cake1600
plum cake1606
butter cake1616
pound cake1743
black cake1823
Dundee cake1836
gâteau1845
fat-rascal1868
Dundee1920
Lane cake1921
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xviii. 473 (heading) A French Rice Pudding, Or Gateau de Riz.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xviii. 474 It will..turn out..having the appearance of a cake... An admirable variety of this Gâteau is made with cocoa-nut flavoured milk.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxiv. 232 A basket containing little gateaux of apricots.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. iv. 45 Gâteau, a cake, correctly speaking; but used sometimes to denote a pudding and a kind of tart.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxvii. 680 French Rice Pudding, or Gateau De Riz.
1883 Cassell's Family 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.
1897 Home Notes 16 Oct. 28 Veal Gâteau.
1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) lxvii. 1754 Gateau of minced meat.
1932 Edinburgh Bk. Plain Cookery Recipes 51 Gâteau of Fish.
1955 M. Hastings Cork & Serpent v. 64 Bread and butter, tea-cakes, and gateaux.
1960 C. Dale Spring of Love i. 16 Having something else—some gateau, an ice-cream?
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