" choux pastry "

[Noun]  | "choux pastry" | \ ˈshü- \

1: a very light, egg-based dough used to make pastries (such as cream puffs and éclairs ) —called also pate a choux

Origin: 1878 ;

 Partial translation of French pâte à choux, literally, "pastry in the form of cabbages"; choux, plural of chou "cabbage," going back to Middle French, back-formation from chous, plural of chol, going back to Old French, going back to Latin caulis "stalk, stem, cabbage stem, cabbage" {mat|cole|};