词汇 | frangipane |
词源 | frangipane. The marquis Muzio Frangipani, a general under Louis XIV, is said to have invented the pastry cake filled with cream, sugar, and almonds called frangipane or frangipani. The name is also applied to the fragrant but ugly Plumeria rubra tree or shrub, and to a perfume either originally prepared from or imitating the odor of its flowers. The perfume is usually as- sociated with the name of its otherwise unknown inventor— possibly a Frangipani relative or the marquis himself. An alter- nate suggestion is that both pastry and perfume may have been introduced by an earlier member of the Italian Frangipani fam- ily, a relative who came to France with Catherine de Médicis a century before the marquis. Considering Catherine’s many contributions to French cooking, this is not unlikely. |
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