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Bechamel

A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

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Sauce 76% connected

A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint…

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Amandine noun · 78% connection

A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc.

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Argol noun · 78% connection

Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines…

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Arnotto noun · 78% connection

A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropic…

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Blancmanger noun · 78% connection

A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.

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Butter noun · 78% connection

Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter o…

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Butterine noun · 78% connection

A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter.

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Buttermilk noun · 78% connection

The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.

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Butyraceous adjective · 78% connection

Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.

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Churn verb · 78% connection

A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate…

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Cream verb · 78% connection

To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; t…

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Cream-slice noun · 78% connection

A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.

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Cream-white adjective · 78% connection

As white as cream.

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Creamery noun · 78% connection

A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

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Creamy adjective · 78% connection

Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous.

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Cremor noun · 78% connection

Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.

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Croquette noun · 78% connection

minced cooked meats (or vegetables) in thick white sauce; breaded and deep-fried

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Dives noun · 78% connection

The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a ri…

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Laver noun · 78% connection

The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple…

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