forcemeat
IPA: fˈɔrsmit
noun
- (cooking) An emulsion of fat and comminuted meat (which has been subject to puréeing, grinding, sieving, chopping finely) optionally mixed with other flavour carriers and either served up alone or used as a stuffing.
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Examples of "forcemeat" in Sentences
- -- A simple kind of forcemeat balls may be made according to the accompanying recipe.
- The standard ratios taught in culinary schools involve purees, namely the emulsified forcemeat and the mousseline forcemeat.
- Then he stopped and stared hard as they lay on their backs grinning up at him with the "forcemeat" oozing through the stitching.
- Wallie reflected, as he sat with his feet on the stove-hearth overflowing with ashes, that when it came to the "forcemeat" he was
- In many kitchens and most cooking schools, the term for a meat stuffing has been Anglicized into forcemeat, probably the ugliest culinary term in the books.
- Later these skins would be stuffed with foie gras and goose meat to make a galantine a cold French dish involving forcemeat pressed into a cylinder and poached.
- This loaf of cooked chicken enclosed in bacon and forcemeat was more complex than other popular colonial dishes such as smothered chicken but, said the author, it was “a pretty first course, summer or winter.”
- This accomplished, he stood off and viewed his handiwork with eminent pride and satisfaction, though it occurred to him that owing to his generous use of "forcemeat" they had a bloated appearance, as if they had died of strychnine poisoning.
- Foie grass biggest boost to date came when Strasbourg chef Jean-Pierre Clause baked a whole liver in a crust with veal and lard forcemeat to create Pt de foie gras de Strasbourg, an immensely popular dish of the 1780s that gained an international reputation.
- V.F. contributing editor David Kamp and the saucy Marion Rosenfeld's The Food Snob's Dictionary (Broadway) enlightens denizens of Hooters-style breastaurants about the finer points of "forcemeat" whilst delighting those high-hat cuisinerds who can gas on about "fair trade" until the grass-fed, free-range cows come home.
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