Eredeti szöveg - Angol - The Duke of Wellington, who won the ...

The Duke of Wellington, who won the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, was quite indifferent to food, so much so that his cooks often gave notice, despairing of using their culinary talents in his household. In spite of this, his name has been given to a fillet of beef, wrapped in puff pastry, so called perhaps because in its larger version the finished product looks like a highly polished riding or Wellington boot.