- Croustade
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A Croustade is a French culinary term meaning a crust or pie-crust of any type. They are usually made of flaky pastry or puff pastry, but there are also bread croustades (croustade de pain de mie), potato croustades (petites croustades en pommes de terre duchesse), rice, semolina and vermicelli croustades, among others.
References
- Le Guide Culinaire by Auguste Escoffier, Flammarion, Paris (1903)
- Larousse Gastronomique, Crown Publishers (1961)
(Translated from the French, Librairie Larousse, Paris (1938))
Categories:- Occitan cuisine
- French pastry
- Cuisine stubs
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