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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

biscuit type barquette

English translation:

boat-shaped biscuit

Added to glossary by Thomas Miles
Oct 23, 2018 16:21
5 yrs ago
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French term

biscuits chocolatés nappés type barquette

French to English Other Cooking / Culinary biscuits
This continues the list of quite specific biscuit categories. Searches for "biscuit + barquette" consistently show a similar kind of biscuit, but it is rather difficult to describe it accurately in English.

My unsatisfactory efforts are "pastry-style coated chocolate biscuits" or "chocolate biscuits with central coating".

Our choices are limited by the later "biscuits chocolatés nappés type tartelette" and a category of biscuit which is centrally "fourré".

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Proposed translations (English)
2 +3 chocolate coated barquette (boat-shaped) biscuits
Change log

Oct 23, 2018 16:35: Wendy Streitparth changed "Language pair" from "French to English" to "English to French"

Oct 23, 2018 18:37: writeaway changed "Language pair" from "English to French" to "French to English"

Discussion

Tony M Oct 23, 2018:
@ Asker I've never seen any of these with a chocolate coating — the whole point, really, is that you can see the filling you're getting. But could this be the type where the bottom is dipped in chocolate, so it looks a bit as if they are floating on a chocolate sea? In that case, I think I'd called them 'chocolate-dipped...'
Cf. certain types of madeleines, where the bottom, not the top is 'nappé', but I think also we'd used 'dipped' in EN. Here is an example: https://www.stmichel.fr/produit/madeleine-nappee-chocolat
Valérie Ourset Oct 23, 2018:
Agree with Gillian It would be worth asking for a photo since "barquette" in France are very specific biscuits. I totally agree with Wendy's translation since description mentions coated in French but still the biscuit would not be fully coated. There would just be a streak of chocolate in the middle of the cake or as you say with a central coating of chocolate.
Gillian Smithers Oct 23, 2018:
Wondering if this is the type of biscuit meant?

https://redmart.com/product/lu-barquette-boat-shape-french-b...

Proposed translations

+3
39 mins
Selected

chocolate coated barquette (boat-shaped) biscuits

In America at least they are called barquette biscuits and on some British web sites too (when referring to LU).
Note from asker:
"boat-shaped" might well be my best bet
Peer comment(s):
agree Sheila Wilson
20 mins
Many thanks, Sheila
agree B D Finch
57 mins
Thank you, BDF!
agree Valérie Ourset : See my comment below.
1 hr
Many thanks, Valérie
neutral Tony M : Except there is some doubt if these biscuits are ever 'coated' — they more usually have a 'filling' (e.g. jam); or are these the ones that have their bottoms dipped in chocolate?/ Yes, but that is biscuits in general, not these specific ones.
3 hrs
Well, according to the following link they may also be partially coated: They may be fully coated or half coated with chocolate. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012815...
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