stilton
IPA: stˈɪɫtʌn
Root Word: Stilton
noun
- A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1689).
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
- A type of blue-veined cheese made in England.
- (slang, archaic) That which is needed or wanted; the very thing; the ticket.
- Alternative form of Stilton (“type of cheese”) [A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1689).]
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Examples of "stilton" in Sentences
- My willpower completely broke down here — I had a small pork with stilton cheese pie.
- The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative.
- The exception is a dry blue such as stilton which should be eaten virtually cold to maintain its dry, crumbly consistency.
- The wider menu includes a variety of affordable old-school snacks, such as Gentleman's Relish on toast and potted stilton £2.50.
- Roughly chop the hazelnuts and put them in a large bowl along with the chopped chestnuts, crumbled stilton, breadcrumbs and chopped sage.
- One of the beauties of fried rice is that it will gratefully embrace just about any old leftovers you throw at it hunks of stilton excepted but whatever you put in, egg should be mandatory.
- The great secret of connoisseurship has always been that it's not that much fun: You can hardly bring yourself to enjoy the particular hunk of stilton in front of you when you're measuring all the ways it falls short of the Platonic ideal of cheese.
- When the chancellor trumpeted his "march of the makers" as the means to pull the British economy out of the doldrums in last year's budget, he neglected to say that the makers would be carrying picnic baskets brimming with stilton, sausages and relish.
- Alongside the usual breakfast fare (full English, vegetarian, monster or farmhouse), they do a soup of the day (broccoli and stilton, perhaps, at £3.50) and a couple of homemade specials (smoked haddock and spring onion fish cakes or salt and pepper prawns with chilli mayo – both served with chips and salad at £4.50).
- Serves 6 (with accompaniments)2 large parsnipsOil, to grease1 small savoy cabbage, 4–6 outer leaves only 150g hazelnuts40g butter1 red onion, finely chopped150g chestnut mushrooms, finely chopped100g cooked chestnuts, roughly chopped100g stilton, crumbled (or other vegetarian-friendly cheese of your choice)100g brown breadcrumbs2 tbsp chopped fresh sage1 free-range egg, beaten1.
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