Nesselrode

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English

Etymology

From the name of Karl Nesselrode (1780–1862), a Russian statesman for whom the dish was said to have been invented by a French chef.

Proper noun

Nesselrode

  1. Designating a type of cream, pie, or pudding, constituting an iced dessert made of chestnuts and cream, and typically flavoured with rum.
    • 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 125:
      [T]he team of girls [] would now turn the kitchen into their own domain as they manufactured the asparagus rolls and the mushroom vol-au-vents and the tiny cheese beignets and the iced finger of orange cake, and the Nesselrode pudding.