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What (who) is millefeuille - definition

FRENCH PASTRY
Mille-feuilles; Napoleon (pastry); Millefeuille; Mille feuille; Mille foglie; Millefoglie; Cream slice; Snot block; Napoleon (dessert); Custard square; Torte Napoleon; Napoleon (cake); Napoleon (food); Napoleon cake; Millefeuilles; Custard slice; Millefoi; Millefois; Napoleones
  • [[Napoleonka]]}}
  • mille foglie}} filled with pastry cream and garnished with strawberries, shaved chocolate and powdered sugar
  • [[Tompouce]]}} on the [[King's Day]] in Netherlands
  • A Napoleon pastry in Hong Kong
  • [[Kremna rezina]]}}
  • mille-feuille}} pastry (Japan)
  • A Napoleon dessert made at a Mexican bakery in Sonoma, California.
  • mille-feuille}} pastry that has combed glazing
  • mille-feuille}} with fresh strawberries
  • Russian Napoleon cake

millefeuille         
[mi:l'f?:i]
¦ noun a rich cake consisting of thin layers of puff pastry filled with jam and cream.
Origin
Fr., lit. 'thousand-leaf'.

Wikipedia

Mille-feuille

A mille-feuille (French pronunciation: ​[mil fœj], "thousand-sheets"), also known by the names Napoleon, vanilla slice, and custard slice, is a dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream. Its modern form was influenced by improvements made by Marie-Antoine Carême.

Traditionally, a mille-feuille is made up of three layers of puff pastry (pâte feuilletée), alternating with two layers of pastry cream (crème pâtissière). The top pastry layer is finished in various ways: sometimes it is topped with whipped cream, or it may be dusted with icing sugar, cocoa, pastry crumbs, or sliced almonds. It may also be glazed with icing or fondant alone, or in alternating white (icing) and brown (chocolate) or other colored icing stripes, and combed to create a marbled effect.

Examples of use of millefeuille
1. A back view revealed mannish black trousers hiding under the millefeuille layers of the swinging frocks.
2. Pan–fried fillet of Cornish red mullet, salted cod brandade and bouillabaisse jus; caramelised raspberry and Tahiti vanilla millefeuille are flavour bursts that I hope never to forget.
3. Among the terms singled out for ridicule are ‘millefeuille of aubergine‘ – which bears no resemblance to a puff pastry cake filled with jam and cream – and a ‘capuccino of white beans‘ that has nothing to do with coffee.
4. It‘s totally inaccurate, and what annoys me even more is that nine times out of 10 the words are mis–spelt. ‘I can understand and forgive a little bit of it when it‘s used in a clever way, by people who understand the terms, but if the words are just used as embellishment to dress up a rather sad menu, forget it.‘ Marcus Wareing, chef at Petrus restaurant in London, said foreign words could be justified, but only if they were accurate and the quality of the food matched the description. ‘I don‘t think there‘s anything wrong with using millefeuille or capuccino – it‘s quite nice – but it depends on what is actually being cooked.