choux pastry

First recorded in 1875–80; from French choux, plural of chou “cream puff,” literally, “cabbage” (so called from the resemblance to little cabbages when the pastries come out of the oven). The variant pâte à choux entered English earlier, around 1845–50 ; cream puff pastry was first recorded in 1950–55; chou, pâte