Thu, 02 Feb 2006
Petard corrections
Eric Cholet has written in to mention that he is familiar with the fried choux
pastry that I mentioned yesterday, but under the name pets de
nonne, not pets de soeurs, as I said. (Nonne, of
course, is "nun". The word soeur is literally "sister", but in
this context means "nun". ) I had cited On Food and
Cooking as mentioning pets de soeurs, but it agrees with
Eric, not with me.
It appears, though, that many people do use the name pets de soeurs to refer to these fritters, and some people also use it to refer to a kind of soda-raised cinnamon roll. Citations to various cookbooks are available through the usual searches.
Eric also points out that petard is the current word for a firecracker, and also now refers to a doobie. I was already aware of this because pictures of those things appeared when I did Google image seach for petard. Thank you, Eric.
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