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fricassee

[frik-uh-see] / ˌfrɪk əˈsi /




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The result was a fricassee, very well done.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

Jeff recalled the creamy chicken fricassee his grandma made when he was growing up in Nebraska.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2019

“Baked chicken is good, but come on, a little boudin or gumbo, fricassee, jambalaya - that helps a little bit to the soul,” Coco Orgeron said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2018

It is hard to interpret the flash of a knife as the portent of a really well-made brunoise onscreen; the combination of rabbit and stockpot does not equal fricassee.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2018

Of most entrees, whether spaghetti and meatballs or chili or chicken fricassee, they were allowed larger portions than most people could eat.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Julia Grossman, Mr. Moore’s partner in this venture, is the baker turning out croissants, brioches and such for breakfast and beyond, paired with Mr. Moore’s homey pâtés, terrines, mushroom fricassees and Parisian sandwich fillings.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2018

At a subsequent meeting of lawyers on the Sandpiper case, Chuck fricassees Jimmy when he asks how, exactly, he signed up so many people, so quickly, from one assisted living facility in Texas.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016

Legend has it that in the cook-shops the cat is often used in the making of rabbit fricassees.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2011

It is an elegant and inexpensive entrée, as the remains of cold fish, flesh, or fowl may be served as ragoûts, fricassees, &c., inclosed in the casserole.

From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Friar John was got into the cook-room, examining, by the ascendant of the spits and the horoscope of ragouts and fricassees, what time of day it might then be.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux

Instead, he’s fricasseed nearly every time he ventures outside.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 31, 2016

Maybe it’s not as appalling as corporate behavior that is regularly fricasseed in this space.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2010

The Alsop brothers, who had considerably more reason to ask, airily wired their editors that "these particular reporters prefer their crow fricasseed."

From Time Magazine Archive

Throughout the week, the McClellan Committee fricasseed Frank Brewster in the gravy of the Western Teamsters' finances.

From Time Magazine Archive

The look she gave me would have fricasseed a rhino.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

The methods of cookery that may be applied to meat include broiling, pan broiling, roasting, stewing or simmering, braizing, frying, sautéing, and fricasseeing.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Indeed, since it is a long method of cookery, a rather old, comparatively tough fowl lends itself best to fricasseeing.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Stewing or fricasseeing is really cooking slowly in a sauce after the meat has first been browned in a little hot fat.

From The Kitchen Encyclopedia Twelfth Edition (Swift & Company) by Anonymous

The old woman was fricasseeing a chicken for dinner in a large fireplace, in which hung the stew-pot, black with smoke.

From Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In fricasseeing, the meat to be cooked is cut into pieces and sautéd either before or after stewing; then it is served with a white or a brown sauce.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences


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