cooking quiche

Cooking Quiches – Variations and Classic Appetizers

A cooking quiche usually contains filling of cooked eggs, mushrooms (usually mushrooms of some variety), butter or cream, cheese or milk, and other flavourings. Typical fillings are: cheese, mushrooms, cottage cheese, or fatback or sausage; sometimes turkey or duck fat is used. Sometimes whole milk is used as an additional cream. Most common way of preparation is to cook the eggs, butter or cream, and whisk the ingredients together until they form a smooth paste. It is served cold or hot.

The classic French recipe for cooking quiche has been simplified into a more popular version called “ques cheval” in English, which means “small pie”. This simple version was developed in the 1950s in the French province of Burgundy and is famous all over the world. Quiche is a traditional French pie based on a white crust that contains fillings of eggs, mushrooms, cream or milk and other flavourings. Usually it consists of a slice of round or square loaf of French bread called brie, along with a filling of the chosen filling. The classic recipe uses only four basic ingredients: eggs, flour, butter or shortening, cheese or curd, and fruit, such as strawberries, blackberries or prunes. Other variations of this classic are the “ques cheval” which substitutes the mushrooms and cream with chives or other herbs, and the “que neve” which adds the milk and curds, and also includes blueberries, cranberries or raspberries.

“Queue” in French translates to “sand” and this dish literally means “pot”. In English, this type of cooking quiche is cooked in a coiled shape so that when served, it looks like a sand pit. Another variation of the classic recipe contains a mixture of cooked eggs (called “hard-boiled eggs”) and cream or milk, and prunes. These can either be chopped up very fine or they can be blended into a pulp. The most popular version of this classic American meal consists of hard-boiled eggs, butter or shortening, fresh mushrooms or other vegetables, and a layer of cream or milk pie topping.