crêpe suzette

plural crêpes suzette · plural crêpe suzettes

1. Alternative letter-case form of crêpe Suzette.

   The flaming of crêpe suzettes is definitely not encouraged on board a boat!

   2007, Alison Noice, “Keeping Safe”, in Day Skipper for Sail and Power, London: Adlard Coles Nautical, →ISBN, page 33

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   Let’s stop and pick up something special for dinner. You know what I’d like? A can of crêpes suzette.

   1958, Philip K[indred] Dick, chapter 6, in In Milton Lumky Territory, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published May 2008, →ISBN, page 75

   Nor must one forget the dinner at which he harpooned one of the crêpes suzette with his fork and, holding it aloft, cried, “Here is how Gide will burn in Hell one day!”

   1963 summer, Spire Pitou, “Review-Article: Claudel, Cosmic and Comic”, in John Pick, editor, Renascence: A Critical Journal of Letters, volume XV, number 4, Milwaukee, Wis.: Catholic Renascence Society, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 213–214

   For dessert there were crêpes suzette with his favourite, grand marnier sauce.

   2013, Edmund Glasby, “Volume XIII”, in The Ash Murders & Other Stories (Linford Mystery Library), Leicester, Leicestershire: Linford, →ISBN, page 206

   The room was equipped with several computer stations, AV equipment, and posters showing various concoctions-⁠-⁠-a crêpe suzette flaming, […]

   2017 December 5, Glenda Ruby, “A Visit to the CIA”, in A Murderous Summer at Bard (Hudson Valley Mysteries), Middletown, Del.: Greendale Books, →ISBN, page 101

plural crêpes Suzette · plural crêpe Suzettes · alternative crepe Suzette · alternative crêpe suzette · alternative crepe suzette

1. A dessert comprising a crêpe (pancake) topped with caramel and orange sauce and Grand Marnier, then flambéed.

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   “I was a stranger in town and so was the Prince of Wales, then known as King Edward VII to his intimates. He asked me why I didn’t make a pancake which would taste like an orange, only with a pancake flavor. / “‘Why don’t you?’ I asked him right back. / “But finally he wheedled me into doing it, and that is how crêpe Suzettes were invented.”

   1936, Robert Benchley, “Notes”, in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew, 5th edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 277

   Synonyms: Suzette