{"id":3031,"slug":"simple-tarragon-quiche","title":"Simple Tarragon Quiche","description":"A quiche is a baked, unsweetened custard pie, often made with savory fillings. Originally served in Germany, quiche was adopted by neighboring France and is now considered a traditional French dish. The French (and now English) word quiche comes from a dialectal form (Küchle) of the German word for cake (Kuchen). Quiche became popular in Britain after World War II and in the United States during the 1960s and 70s.","ingredients_raw":["5 eggs","1 ⅓ cup (320 ml) cream (approximately 30% fat)","1 teaspoon chopped fresh tarragon","1 dash ground nutmeg","¼ teaspoon salt","⅛ teaspoon ground pepper","1 prepared frozen pie crust","¾ cup (180 ml) freshly-grated Swiss cheese"],"ingredients_norm":["egg","cream","fresh tarragon","ground nutmeg","salt","ground pepper","prepared frozen pie crust","swiss cheese"],"steps":["Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).","Place the eggs, cream, tarragon, nutmeg, salt, and pepper in a blender; blend as briefly as possible until they form a homogeneous mixture.","In the pie crust, create alternating layers of the shredded cheese and the mixture from the blender until the crust is full.","Bake the quiche for 35–40 minutes; a toothpick or fork inserted into its middle should come out \"clean\".","Remove the quiche from the oven, and let it cool for at least 20 minutes before serving."],"categories":["French recipes","Recipes using egg","Recipes for pies and tarts","Vegetarian recipes","Recipes using Swiss cheese","Recipes using cream","Recipes for quiche"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":75,"servings":"6","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Simple_Tarragon_Quiche","source_ref":"4536098","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Simple_Tarragon_Quiche&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"23671a8cf6cd6a6b1c6dececdb3098ad3830adf2a759450f55ebcf6516e8a6c6","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:21Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/simple-tarragon-quiche"}