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English translation: Potatoes and Comté cheese

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13:02 Oct 20, 2009

French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Cooking / Culinary

French term or phrase: pommes de terre au comté

Hi,

Item on a menu. Does anyone know how this would translate into English?

Many thanks in advance.

Georgia Ford KudoZ activity Questions: 70 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 24 United Kingdom
Local time: 00:57

English translation:Potatoes and Comté cheese

Explanation:
typo in the source text

Selected response from:

Mary Davis
Local time: 01:57

Grading comment

Thanks so much for your help - it was the typo that threw me with this one : )
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

2 +10

potatoes (topped) with Comté cheese

Tony M

4 +2

Potatoes and Comté cheese

Mary Davis

3 +1

potatoes and Comté cheese gratin

Jean-Louis S.

Discussion entries: 8

Answers

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Pommes de terre au Conté

Potatoes and Comté cheese

Explanation:
typo in the source text

Mary Davis
Local time: 01:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Thanks so much for your help - it was the typo that threw me with this one : )

12 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

potatoes and Comté cheese gratin

Explanation:
http://tinyurl.com/yf4eq9j

Jean-Louis S.
United States
Local time: 19:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 24

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +10

pommes de terre au Conté potatoes (topped) with Comté cheese

Explanation:
It seems likely to me that this is a typo or dictation error for 'Comté', the name of a type of cheese.

Quite what the dish actual comprises, however, is not clear, and short of actually asking the chef, I think you'll have to keep it fairly vague. You might risk going as far as 'topped with', since I would imagine this might well be some kind of gratin dish, Comté being a hard cheese that would lend itself to being grated or shaved over sliced potatoes, for example.

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Note added at 19 mins (2009-10-20 13:21:56 GMT)
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My reference to a typo concerns the original version of this question as posted, since corrected.

Tony M
France
Local time: 01:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 311

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Transitwrite

2 mins

-> Thanks, Sharon!

agree

Lucy-Jane Michel: absolutely

4 mins

-> Thanks, Lucy-Jane!

agree

Jean-Louis S.: if you remove the "topped'. It is usually alternating layers of potatoes and cheese, with, I grant you that, a final layer of cheese. http://tinyurl.com/yf4eq9j

10 mins

-> Thanks, jlsjr! Yes, I did think it was sticking my neck out a bit...

agree

Estelle Demontrond-Box: Being from Franche-Comté myself and a massive fan of that cheese, I agree!

27 mins

-> Thanks! It's one of my faves too!

agree

wordgirl: mmm! :)

55 mins

-> Thanks! Yes, indeed... reminds me of an excelent dish I sometimes make called 'pan haggarty' — a sort of Cheddar version, but I must try it with Comté one day...

agree

Rachel Fell

1 hr

-> Thanks, Raahel!

agree

Travelin Ann: I had to check out recipes for "pan haggarty." Yum!

1 hr

-> Thanks, Hooksett!

agree

JOHN A: ...Elementary, my dear Watson... :-)

1 hr

-> Oh, I say... thanks, Holmes, my dear fellow...!

agree

Verginia Ophof: what about :scalloped potatoes topped with comte cheese ? http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,scalloped_potaoes,FF.h...

3 hrs

-> Thanks, Verginia! Sounds good, but might be dangerous to be so specific...

agree

Sheila Wilson: Unless there's omer context, best to be vague (to me, it says baked cheesey spuds, but I'm sure it isn't that)

3 hrs

-> Thanks, Sheila! Yes, my feeling exactly!

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PRO (1): Jean-Louis S.
Non-PRO (1): SJLD

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Changes made by editors

Oct 20, 2009 - Changes made by juliebarba:
Level	PRO => Non-PRO
Oct 20, 2009 - Changes made by Stéphanie Soudais:
Term asked	Pommes de terre au Conté => pommes de terre au comté

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