pistole

name

1. A surname from German.

noun

1. (historical)A Spanish gold double-escudo coin of the mid-sixteenth century, or any of various gold coins derived from or based on this.
2. (broadly)A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a coin, designed for melting when cooking.

   “They were exceptional semi-sweet chocolate chips, with a flat shape that I’ve recreated here with chocolate pistoles, flat wafers or disks each about ⅞ inch in diameter. The pistoles disperse randomly through the dough, so that slicing the logs into cookies creates an attractive mosaic, with little spokes of chocolate scattered here and there.”

   “The chocolate that I prefer for most recipes for this book is bittersweet chocolate pistoles. I like their flavor, size, and convenience.”

   “Chocolate pistoles from the manufacturer work best, as they arrive tempered and are uniform in size.”