Boston cream pie
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- noun
- /ˈbɔstən krim paɪ/
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pastel de crema de Boston
- At the bakery, I saw a fresh Boston cream pie that looked absolutely irresistible.
Examples
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- Boston cream pie, banana cream pie.
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" The locksmith seemed to like the Boston cream pie."
Fiction book (2000) -
So, it's been my mom's chocolate chip cookies, Danish apple dessert, and Boston cream pie for us since that time.
Blog text (2) -
Examples are southern-style hush puppies, Boston cream pie, and New York-style cheesecake.
Academic text (1992) -
For her birthday, she requested a Boston cream pie topped with rich chocolate glaze.
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After dinner, we enjoyed a delicious slice of Boston cream pie filled with creamy custard.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The parts 'Boston' (a place), 'cream' and 'pie' transparently indicate a cream-based dessert associated with Boston, so a B1 learner who knows the words will infer it refers to a creamy baked dessert. However, the expression is a conventional dish name (and in fact refers to a specific cake rather than a literal pie), so the precise referent and cultural specifics are not fully predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
Boston cream pie — One popular story says the dessert started at a hotel in Boston where cooks served sponge cake filled with thick cream and covered in chocolate. It was baked in a pie tin so people called it a 'pie', and that name stuck to mean the cake with cream inside and chocolate on top.