crêpe Suzette

• crepe Suzette, crêpe suzette, crepe suzette

Borrowed from French crêpe Suzette.

crêpe Suzette (plural crêpes Suzette or crêpe Suzettes)

1. A dessert comprising a crêpe (pancake) topped with caramel and orange sauce and Grand Marnier, then flambéed.

   Synonym: Suzette (by ellipsis)

   • 1936, Robert Benchley, “Notes”, in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew, 5th edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 277:

     “I was a stranger in town and so was the Prince of Wales, then known as King Edward VII to his intimates. He asked me why I didn’t make a pancake which would taste like an orange, only with a pancake flavor. / “‘Why don’t you?’ I asked him right back. / “But finally he wheedled me into doing it, and that is how crêpe Suzettes were invented.”

• crêpes Suzette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From crêpe +‎ Suzette, allegedly the name of the companion of the Prince of Wales, for whom the dish was first prepared (apparently accidentally) in Paris in 1895.

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crêpe Suzette f (plural crêpes Suzette)

1. crêpe Suzette

• First described in Life à la Henri: Being The Memories of Henri Charpentier by Henri Charpentier and Boyden Sparkes, The Modern Library, New York, 2001 Paperback Edition (originally published 1934).