Nesselrode

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. [from 19th c.]
   • 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.