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A croque-monsieur is a hot ham and cheese
Cheese

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
 (typically emmental
Emmental (cheese)

Emmental, Emmentaler, Emmenthal, or Emmenthaler is a Cheeses_of_Switzerland. It is sometimes known as Swiss cheese in North America, Australia and New Zealand, although Swiss cheese does not always imply Emmentaler....
 or gruyère
Gruyère (cheese)

Gruy?re is a hard yellow cheese made from cattle milk, named after the town of Gruy?res in Switzerland, and made in the cantons of Switzerland of Canton of Fribourg, Vaud, Canton of Neuch?tel, Canton of Jura, and Canton of Berne....
) grilled
Grilling

Grilling or broiling is a form of cooking that involves direct heat. Devices that grill are called grill . The definition varies widely by region and culture....
 sandwich
Sandwich

A sandwich is a food item made of one or more slices of bread with one or more layers of a filling. The bread can be used as is, or it can be coated with butter, vegetable oil, mustard or other condiments to enhance flavour and texture....
. It originated in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 as a fast-food snack served in café
Café

A caf? or coffee shop is an informal restaurant offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwiches. This differs from a coffee house, which is a limited-menu establishment which focuses on coffee sales....
s and bar
Bar (establishment)

A bar is a business that serves drinks, especially alcoholic beverages such as beer, liquor, and mixed drinks, for consumption on the premises....
s. More elaborate versions come coated in a Mornay
Mornay sauce

A Mornay sauce is a B?chamel sauce with shredded or grated cheese added. Usually, it is half Gruy?re cheese and half Parmesan cheese, though some variations use different combinations of Gruy?re, Emmental cheese, or white cheddar cheese....
 or Béchamel sauce
Béchamel sauce

B?chamel sauce , also known as white sauce, is a basic sauce that is used as the base for other sauces, such as Mornay sauce, which is B?chamel and cheese....
. The emergence of the Croque-monsieur (and variations) is mirrored by growth in popular fast-foods in other countries.

The name is based on the verb croquer ("to crunch") and the word monsieur ("mister")—the reason behind the combination of the two words is unclear—and is colloquially shortened to croque.






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Croque Monsieur
A croque-monsieur is a hot ham and cheese
Cheese

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
 (typically emmental
Emmental (cheese)

Emmental, Emmentaler, Emmenthal, or Emmenthaler is a Cheeses_of_Switzerland. It is sometimes known as Swiss cheese in North America, Australia and New Zealand, although Swiss cheese does not always imply Emmentaler....
 or gruyère
Gruyère (cheese)

Gruy?re is a hard yellow cheese made from cattle milk, named after the town of Gruy?res in Switzerland, and made in the cantons of Switzerland of Canton of Fribourg, Vaud, Canton of Neuch?tel, Canton of Jura, and Canton of Berne....
) grilled
Grilling

Grilling or broiling is a form of cooking that involves direct heat. Devices that grill are called grill . The definition varies widely by region and culture....
 sandwich
Sandwich

A sandwich is a food item made of one or more slices of bread with one or more layers of a filling. The bread can be used as is, or it can be coated with butter, vegetable oil, mustard or other condiments to enhance flavour and texture....
. It originated in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 as a fast-food snack served in café
Café

A caf? or coffee shop is an informal restaurant offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwiches. This differs from a coffee house, which is a limited-menu establishment which focuses on coffee sales....
s and bar
Bar (establishment)

A bar is a business that serves drinks, especially alcoholic beverages such as beer, liquor, and mixed drinks, for consumption on the premises....
s. More elaborate versions come coated in a Mornay
Mornay sauce

A Mornay sauce is a B?chamel sauce with shredded or grated cheese added. Usually, it is half Gruy?re cheese and half Parmesan cheese, though some variations use different combinations of Gruy?re, Emmental cheese, or white cheddar cheese....
 or Béchamel sauce
Béchamel sauce

B?chamel sauce , also known as white sauce, is a basic sauce that is used as the base for other sauces, such as Mornay sauce, which is B?chamel and cheese....
. The emergence of the Croque-monsieur (and variations) is mirrored by growth in popular fast-foods in other countries.

The name is based on the verb croquer ("to crunch") and the word monsieur ("mister")—the reason behind the combination of the two words is unclear—and is colloquially shortened to croque. While the origins of the Croque-monsieur are unknown, there are many speculations on how it was first originated. One such story is that a long time ago there were French workers who would take their sandwiches to work with them. Some would take ham and cheese, and since they did not have coolers or refrigerators, they would leave their lunches by the radiators, and the cheese would melt. The Croque-monsieur's first recorded appearance on a Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
ian café menu
Menu

In a restaurant, a menu is a printed brochure or public display that shows the list of options for a diner to select. A menu may be a la carte or table d'h?te....
 was in 1910. Its earliest published use has been traced back to volume 2 of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
In Search of Lost Time

In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past is a semi-autobiographical novel in heptalogy by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the Madeleine "....
 (1918).

A ham and cheese sandwich snack, very similar to the Croque-monsieur, is called a Tosti in the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
.

Variations

Croque Madame 1
A croque-monsieur served with a fried egg
Fried egg

The term fried eggs refers to Egg that are frying without breaking the yolk. Fried eggs are typically a breakfast food in English-speaking countries, but may be eaten at other times of the day or not at all in other cultures....
 or poached egg
Poached egg

A poached egg is an Egg that has been cooked by poaching , that is, in water. No oil or fat is used in its preparation. Poached eggs are used in Eggs Benedict and Eggs Florentine....
 on top is known as a croque-madame (or in parts of Normandy
Normandy

Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is situated along the coast of France south of the English Channel between Brittany and Picardy and comprises territory in northern France and the Channel Islands....
 a croque-cheval). Many dictionaries attribute the name to the egg resembling an old fashioned woman's hat. According to the Petit Robert
Petit Robert

Le Petit Robert is a popular single-volume French language dictionary first published by Paul Robert in 1967, an abridgement of his eight-volume Dictionnaire alphab?tique et analogique de la langue fran?aise....
 dictionary, the name dates to around 1960. The name croque-mademoiselle is associated with many different sandwiches, from diet recipes to desserts. A version of this sandwich in Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 replaces the ham with sobrassada
Sobrassada

Sobrassada is a raw, curing sausage from the Balearic Islands made with ground pork, paprika and salt and other spices. Sobrassada, along with botifarr? are traditional Majorcan sausage meat products prepared in the laborious but festive rites that still mark the autumn and winter pig slaughter in Majorca....
, a soft sausage from the Balearic Islands
Balearic Islands

The Balearic Islands are an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.The four largest islands are Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, and Formentera....
 that can be easily spread

Versions of the sandwich with substitutions or additional ingredients are given names modelled on the original croque-monsieur, for example:
  • croque provençal (with tomato)
  • croque auvergnat (with bleu d'Auvergne
    Bleu d'Auvergne

    Bleu d'Auvergne is a France blue cheese, named for its place of origin in the Auvergne region of south-central France. It is made from cow's milk, and is one of the cheeses granted the Appellation d'Origine Contr?l?e from the French government....
     cheese)
  • croque norvégien (with smoked salmon instead of ham)
  • croque tartiflette
    Tartiflette

    Tartiflette is a French cuisine from the Savoie region. It originated in the valley of Aravis Range, home of Reblochon cheese. It is not a traditional dish , and was, in fact, invented and launched only in the 1980s by the Reblochon trade union in an attempt to increase sales of the cheese....
     (with sliced potatoes and Reblochon
    Reblochon

    Reblochon is a France cheese from the Alps region of Savoie and has been granted the Appellation d'Origine Contr?l?e title. Reblochon was first produced in the Th?nes and Arly valleys, in the Aravis Range massif....
     cheese)
  • croque Hawaii
    Hawaii

    File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
     (with a slice of pineapple)
  • croque Bolognese (with Bolognese sauce
    Bolognese sauce

    Bolognese sauce is a meat-based sauce for pasta originating in Bologna, Italy. Bolognese sauce is sometimes taken to be a tomato sauce but authentic recipes have only a small amount of tomato....
    )
  • black croque monsieur. Toasted squid
    Squid

    Squid are marine cephalopods of the order Teuthida, which comprises around 300 species. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, Symmetry #Bilateral_symmetry, a mantle , and cephalopod arms....
     ink bread with buffalo mozzarella


See also

  • Welsh rarebit
  • Grilled cheese sandwich
  • Ham and cheese sandwich
    Ham and cheese sandwich

    The ham and cheese sandwich is a common type of sandwich. It is made by putting cheese and sliced ham between two Sliced bread. The bread is sometimes toasted and vegetables like lettuce, tomato or dill pickle slices can also be included....
  • Francesinha
    Francesinha

    Francesinha is a Portugal sandwich originally from Porto, made with bread, wet-cured ham, lingui?a, fresh sausage like chipolata, steak or roast meat and covered with molten cheese and a hot thick tomato and beer sauce....
  • Monte Cristo sandwich
    Monte Cristo sandwich

    A Monte Cristo is a fried Ham and/or turkey sandwich.The sandwich can differ regionally. Traditionally it is dipped in its entirety in Batter and deep fried....