Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small cooking mold.
  • noun A dish, as of vegetables, fish, custard, or pastry, that is cooked and served in a small mold.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A French cheese-cake.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A crustade.
  • noun A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc.

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  • noun A dessert consisting of puff pastry filled with almond cream, baked in an oven.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English dariol, from Old French dariole, a small, filled pastry, alteration of dialectal doriole, from dorer, to gild; see dory.]

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From French

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Examples

  • A dariole is a small straight-sided tin mould, holding rather less than a gill.

    Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

  • Pour the mixture into ramekins or dariole moulds, cover and chill for eight hours or overnight.

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's jelly recipes 2010

  • Recovering, he set aside his Haviland plate with the half-eaten cream dariole and dabbed at his mouth with the linen napkin.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • It wanted to turn when Luz watched Trisha biting into one of the cream-filled brandy snaps, so she was careful not to look at Rob when he helped himself to a cream dariole, a custard tart topped with red currant jelly and whipped cream.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • Recovering, he set aside his Haviland plate with the half-eaten cream dariole and dabbed at his mouth with the linen napkin.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • Recovering, he set aside his Haviland plate with the half-eaten cream dariole and dabbed at his mouth with the linen napkin.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • It wanted to turn when Luz watched Trisha biting into one of the cream-filled brandy snaps, so she was careful not to look at Rob when he helped himself to a cream dariole, a custard tart topped with red currant jelly and whipped cream.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • It wanted to turn when Luz watched Trisha biting into one of the cream-filled brandy snaps, so she was careful not to look at Rob when he helped himself to a cream dariole, a custard tart topped with red currant jelly and whipped cream.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • Put a little butter and grated Parmesan and two tablespoonsful of cream in a fireproof dish, cut out the semolina paste with a small dariole mould and put it in the dish.

    The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes W. G. Waters

  • When cold cut into shapes with a dariole mould and fry for a few minutes in butter, then turn the darioles out, scoop out a little of each and fill it with eggs beaten up, cover each with a slice of truffle and garnish with a little chopped tongue.

    The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes W. G. Waters

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  • dariole only golden meals should be cooked in this mold (mode)

    January 14, 2007