Crossword-Solution: GATEAUX 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Gosh, I hope Bea remembers to turn off the drafts tonight.” Under the glass cover of the dressing-table was a menu with the most enchanting dishes: breast of guinea hen De Vitresse, pommes de terre a la Russe, meringue Chantilly, gateaux Bruxelles.

The rasping voice asked from the sofa abruptly-- “_Les gateaux_? Have you remembered to bring the cakes?” Peter Ivanovitch, without a word, marched out on to the landing, and returned instantly with a parcel wrapped up in white glazed paper, which he must have extracted from the interior of his hat.

After this came my second service: a pudding a la Reine Elizabeth (who, Madame Fribsbi knows, was a maiden princess); a dish of opal-coloured plover’s eggs which I called Nid de tourtereaux a la Roucoule; placing in the midst of them two of those tender volatiles, billing each other, and confectioned with butter; a basket containing little gateaux of apricots, which, I know, all young ladies adore; and a jelly of marasquin, bland insinuating, intoxicating as the glance of beauty.

Resuming this innocent practice on English soil, I found it attended with serious difficulties--the chief of which was that there were no _gateaux_ to consume.

Some persons gloat o'er French Chateaux; Some dote on lemon ice; While others gorge on mixed gateaux, Yet have no use for mice.