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Definition of Cream puff
1. Noun. Puff filled with cream or custard.
Definition of Cream puff
1. Noun. A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard. ¹
2. Noun. (informal) A weak or ineffectual person. ¹
3. Noun. (informal) An old motor vehicle in especially good condition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cream Puff
Literary usage of Cream puff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Picayune Creole Cook Book (1922)
"cream puff Paste. For these fritters It Is necessary to make a Cream Paste. ...
Prepare the pineapple as in the above recipe; then dip in the cream puff ..."
2. A Diabetic manual for the mutual use of doctor and patient by Elliott Proctor Joslin (1918)
"Lister cream puff. Lister biscuit with soft custard poured over it. ... Serve with
sauce used above for Lister cream puff. Cracked Cocoa Whip. ..."
3. The Home Science Cook Book by Mary Johnson Lincoln, Anna Barrows (1902)
"An ounce of chopped or grated cheese, or fine chopped ham, is sometimes stirred
into the cream puff paste, which is then baked or fried in small ..."
4. Foods and Sanitation: A Text-book and Laboratory Manual for High Schools by Edith Hall Forster, Mildred Weigley (1914)
"... cream puff batter, it is wise to take one cream puff out when it seems firm
to the touch. If this one does not fall, the others may be removed. ..."
5. One Thousand Salads by Olive Green (1909)
"Chopped salmon seasoned with minced capers and mixed with Mayonnaise. 123.
Cream cheese and jam or marmalade, using brown bread. 124. Pill cream puff shells ..."
6. The War in the Cradle of the World, Mesopotamia by Eleanor Franklin Egan (1918)
"And as you bend down one of the others leaps like a Sash to your table and grabs
your cream-puff. At least it was my cream-puff that he got; then the black ..."
7. The Daily News Cook Book, Being a Reprint from The Chicago Record Cook Book edited by Mary Mott Chesbrough (1896)
"Red cabbage, pickled. Steamed stale bread. cream puff. Coffee. ... cream puff—Mix
three tablespoonfuls of flour with four of milk until smooth. ..."
8. The Picayune Creole Cook Book (1922)
"cream puff Paste. For these fritters It Is necessary to make a Cream Paste. ...
Prepare the pineapple as in the above recipe; then dip in the cream puff ..."
9. A Diabetic manual for the mutual use of doctor and patient by Elliott Proctor Joslin (1918)
"Lister cream puff. Lister biscuit with soft custard poured over it. ... Serve with
sauce used above for Lister cream puff. Cracked Cocoa Whip. ..."
10. The Home Science Cook Book by Mary Johnson Lincoln, Anna Barrows (1902)
"An ounce of chopped or grated cheese, or fine chopped ham, is sometimes stirred
into the cream puff paste, which is then baked or fried in small ..."
11. Foods and Sanitation: A Text-book and Laboratory Manual for High Schools by Edith Hall Forster, Mildred Weigley (1914)
"... cream puff batter, it is wise to take one cream puff out when it seems firm
to the touch. If this one does not fall, the others may be removed. ..."
12. One Thousand Salads by Olive Green (1909)
"Chopped salmon seasoned with minced capers and mixed with Mayonnaise. 123.
Cream cheese and jam or marmalade, using brown bread. 124. Pill cream puff shells ..."
13. The War in the Cradle of the World, Mesopotamia by Eleanor Franklin Egan (1918)
"And as you bend down one of the others leaps like a Sash to your table and grabs
your cream-puff. At least it was my cream-puff that he got; then the black ..."
14. The Daily News Cook Book, Being a Reprint from The Chicago Record Cook Book edited by Mary Mott Chesbrough (1896)
"Red cabbage, pickled. Steamed stale bread. cream puff. Coffee. ... cream puff—Mix
three tablespoonfuls of flour with four of milk until smooth. ..."
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