It’s my best help to find out the words I need. As I first think “in French”, the easiest way to write in English seems to translate word for word, looking in an ordinary dictionary.
You know the result : ”I like eating little ovens”. It’s rather hard to savour !!
An answer is in the “ROGET’S THESAURUS”. Start with an approximate word such as “CAKE”.
In front of “cake” in the index it says “bread, pastries and cakes 301 n.”
In paragraph 301 n. you can find
dessert : more than 40 words, then the same number of sweets and following the line “bread, pastries and cakes” all that can be found in a giant pastry shop.
Of course, the only cake that is not mentioned is “PETITS FOURS” ... never mind, I don't think I will eat “little ovens” !
article by Nicole Chaumat © Feb 2010
| petit four = un petit four | a cake = un gâteau | an oven = un four |
| petits fours (sic) = des petits fours (an unusual plural in English) |
pastry = (de la) patisserie a pastry = une patisserie |