Quiche

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For other uses, see Quiche (disambiguation).

In cooking, a quiche (IPA: [ki:ʃ]) (also known in British English as a flan) is a custard pie that is made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat, vegetables and cheese are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked.

Quiche Lorraine is perhaps the most common variety. In addition to the egg and cream, it includes bacon. Cheese (usually Swiss) is not an ingredient of the original Lorraine recipe. The addition of onion to Quiche Lorraine makes Quiche Alsacienne.

The word quiche is derived from the Lorrain dialect of the French language, and entered English in 1941. Image:Quiche Lorraine.jpg

[edit] Trivia

The 1980 album Wild Planet by The B-52's contained a song called "Quiche Lorraine."
In 1982 Bruce Feirstein's satire Real Men Don't Eat Quiche: A Guidebook to All That Is Truly Masculine was published. This idea was capitalized upon in the series of television commercials for Hungry Man TV dinners.
In 2005, the American-based Food Network listed quiche as the number one fad food of the American 1970s.
In the comic book Bone by Jeff Smith, two rat creatures continually follow the Bone cousins around in an attempt to eat them. One of them is obsessed with baking them into a quiche, which is frowned upon by the other rat creature, insisting that monsters don't eat quiche.