Cream horns: food for good living
August 6, 2006 11:57 AM Subscribe
PastryFilter: Anyone know where the cream horn originated?
I'm talking about the buttery-flaky pastry usually sold in bakeries (because they only taste good fresh out of the oven) shaped into a horn, open on the large end, and stuffed with a buttercream or whipped-cream filling. And maybe studded with large sugar crystals on the outside. I prefer mine with the heavier buttercream filling.
My best guess would be that the French invented it, because it's so similar to a cream puff, and the pastry is somewhat related to choux, but I was wondering if there was a foodie out there who knows the story.
I'm talking about the buttery-flaky pastry usually sold in bakeries (because they only taste good fresh out of the oven) shaped into a horn, open on the large end, and stuffed with a buttercream or whipped-cream filling. And maybe studded with large sugar crystals on the outside. I prefer mine with the heavier buttercream filling.
My best guess would be that the French invented it, because it's so similar to a cream puff, and the pastry is somewhat related to choux, but I was wondering if there was a foodie out there who knows the story.
a cream horn, as a cream horn is probably of British origin - because it has an English name (unlike eclair, cannoli, apple strudle). Here is one historical mention:
It may be derived from the eclair or comes from the cannoli and its history.
Nor do I know if the first were made from pancakes, cookies (tuile), or something else. I get the impression that using puff pastry is fairly recent.
posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 1:23 PM on August 6, 2006
1935-1939 ... On my way home from school I would call on Nain, my grandmother, and she would send me with a penny-ha'penny to buy a cream horn to eat with her before Taid, my grandfather, returned from his carpentry and building business.I have no idea when 'cream horn' entered English but maybe the OED does.
It may be derived from the eclair or comes from the cannoli and its history.
Nor do I know if the first were made from pancakes, cookies (tuile), or something else. I get the impression that using puff pastry is fairly recent.
posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 1:23 PM on August 6, 2006
Damn, I've never heard of a cream horn but now I'm, like, totally jonesing for one. That sounds reeeeeally good. Is it a regional thing?
posted by kookoobirdz at 9:03 PM on August 6, 2006
posted by kookoobirdz at 9:03 PM on August 6, 2006
OED's earliest ref is from 1908:
1908 J. KIRKLAND Mod. Baker III. lxii. 349 *Cream Horns. Roll out some puff-paste..and cut up in long strips... Wind each of these pieces of paste round a tin mould shaped like a cornucopia... Fill with..whipped cream. Ibid., (caption) Cream horn or cornucopia tin.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 10:55 PM on August 6, 2006
1908 J. KIRKLAND Mod. Baker III. lxii. 349 *Cream Horns. Roll out some puff-paste..and cut up in long strips... Wind each of these pieces of paste round a tin mould shaped like a cornucopia... Fill with..whipped cream. Ibid., (caption) Cream horn or cornucopia tin.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 10:55 PM on August 6, 2006
I'm from Michigan, and Cream Horns (or Creme Horns) have ALWAYS been easy to find here. They were huge in the Thumb area, where I grew up - and now that I'm living in Hamtramck, I see them at every bakery. Both areas have a huge Polish population (and all the Polish bakeries I've been to have cream horns), but it's not a definite connection.
posted by sluggo at 3:52 AM on August 7, 2006
posted by sluggo at 3:52 AM on August 7, 2006
Cream horn or cornucopia tin
Again, I ask --'Cornetti alla crema' ('cream horns'), the Italian pastry?
Cornus derived from the Latin for "horn" (as in 'cornucopia' -- 'Cornu Copiae' -- "horn of plenty").
posted by ericb at 5:15 PM on August 7, 2006
Again, I ask --'Cornetti alla crema' ('cream horns'), the Italian pastry?
Cornus derived from the Latin for "horn" (as in 'cornucopia' -- 'Cornu Copiae' -- "horn of plenty").
posted by ericb at 5:15 PM on August 7, 2006
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posted by ericb at 1:05 PM on August 6, 2006