Lexicographical Neighbors of Croquignoles
Literary usage of Croquignoles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago by Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1919)
"They were called croquignoles, were small, hard, yet of the consistency of soft
chalk when one bit into them, and glazed with pink, white, or yellow. ..."
2. The Cook's Dictionary and House-keeper's Directory: A New Family Manual of by Richard Dolby (1830)
"croquignoles à la Chartres.*— Blanch and pound five ounces of sweet, and three
of bitter ... These must be of a lighter colour than other croquignoles. ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
""I liked that notion of his about croquignoles a la pou/arde: I will speak to
Moufflon to try it. ..."
4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1888)
"Besides the viands, there were pastries of different kinds, cooked in lard or
porpoise oil, and cakes now known as croquignoles (doughnuts). ..."
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