crêpe suzette

Noun capitalized: crêpe Suzette

crêpe Suzette (plural crêpes Suzette or crêpe Suzettes)

1. A dessert comprising a crêpe (pancake) topped with caramel and orange sauce and Grand Marnier, then flambéed.
   • “I was a stranger in town and so was the Prince of Wales, then known as King Edward VII to his intimates. He asked me why I didn’t make a pancake which would taste like an orange, only with a pancake flavor. / “‘Why don’t you?’ I asked him right back. / “But finally he wheedled me into doing it...1936, Robert Benchley, “Notes”, in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew, 5th edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 277

   Synonyms:

   Suzette