Talk:roulade

Plural also "rouladen"

I think the German-style plural rouladen is also in use, but its hard to find good hits outside mentions and cookbooks. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 01:25, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

You specifically mean sense 2 (cooking) of the English noun, right? I searched for "rouladen are" in GBooks and there are some results, but often with capital R, so they might turn out to be in italics, and not really "English". There is the 1968 Volume Feeding Institutions (volume 63, page 116): "All three types of rouladen are finished with a coat of clear aspic." Volume feeding? Sounds like foie gras. (P.S. Our English etymology says it's from French, so that's wrong in these cases.) Equinox ◑ 01:31, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

@Equinox Yeah, sense 2. Here are two upright, lowercase uses [1], [2], together with yours that looks like three. As to the etymology, I wouldn't be surprised if the term was borrowed from both German and French in different contexts. As indirectly supporting evidence, a Google search for "meat roulade" gives me German ([3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]), Italian ([12][13][14]), and non-specific ([15][16][17][18][19]) hits. Only one of these tops results ([20]) mentions France or French. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 01:59, 23 March 2023 (UTC)