Meanings
plural chaudins
- countableuncountableA sausage-like meat dish in the cuisine of Louisiana, made from pork, rice, vegetables and spices sewn up and cooked in a pig's stomach.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PANSE AND CHAUDIN? Stuffed Panse is a stuffed pork stomach, also know as Chaudin in different locals.
2002, Nicole Denée Fontenot, Alicia Fontenot Vidrine, Cooking with Cajun Women: Recipes and Remembrances from South Louisiana Kitchens, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 254 more examples
Let the chaudin cool for 5 minutes, then cut it in 1-inch slices. Spread the slices across the platter and spoon the juices and vegetables from the ...
, Jude W. Theriot, The 100 Greatest Cajun Recipes, Pelican Publishing Company, page 108I was after a taste of chaudin, a legendary local delicacy made of a stuffed pig's stomach. The first thing I learned about chaudin […]
2008, Dale Volberg Reed, John Shelton Reed, John T. Edge, Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 22Chaudin, also called ponce, is a dish associated with boucheries. To make chaudin, the cook stuffs a cleaned pork stomach with a mixture of […]
2012, C. Paige Gutierrez, Cajun Foodways, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 61Chaudin is a delicacy of French influence, originating in the bayous of southern Louisiana. The word “chaudin” is of French Cajun origin, meaning "stomach" or "innards." […] The dish is also commonly known as southern Louisiana ponce, shodin, or Cajun haggis.
2018, Jonathan Deutsch, We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Unusual Foods in the United States, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 64
Origin
- Medieval Latincaldūmen
- Old Frenchchaudun
- Poitevin-Saintongeaischàudin
- Cajun Frenchchaudin“stuffed and baked pig's stomach; pig's large intestine”
- Englishchaudin
From Cajun French chaudin (“stuffed and baked pig's stomach; pig's large intestine”), from Poitevin-Saintongeais chàudin, from Old French chaudun, from Medieval Latin caldūmen. Doublet of chawdron.
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