Quiche

[Donald M. Lance]

Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> October 1965, pg. 84--If you've never eaten or made a quiche (pronounced
> keesh), I think you'll welcome an introduction to this versatile dish from
> rural France.  The most famous version is the Quiche Lorraine, an open-faced
> pie with an eggy, buttery crust and a filling of cheese and bacon in an
> unsweetened custard.

Quiche isn't French, but German.  It is from the Loraine-German dialectal pronunciation of
Kueche (=kitchen/cuisine).  It was a way of getting rid of leftovers, so I was told in
neighboring Saarland.  The umlauted /u/ was unrounded in the dialect, and in English we
have a "silent e."
DMLance