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| à la king |
diced and cooked in a cream sauce with green peppers, pimentos, and mushrooms. |
| à la mode |
served with an ice cream topping, as pie or other desserts, or braised with vegetables and served in a rich brown gravy, as beef. [1/2 definitions] |
| angel food cake |
a light white sponge cake made of beaten egg whites, cream of tartar, flour, and sugar. |
| baked Alaska |
a rich dessert made by piling ice cream on top of a layer of cake, covering the whole with meringue, and baking or broiling until the meringue begins to brown. |
| Bavarian cream |
a dessert composed of gelatin, whipped cream, eggs, and fruit flavoring and similar to a soufflé. |
| bisque1 |
a thick cream soup made with shellfish, meat, or strained vegetables. [2 definitions] |
| black |
taken without cream or milk. [1/2 definitions] |
| blini |
small, thin buckwheat pancakes served with caviar and sour cream. |
| blusher |
a cosmetic in cream or powder form, used to give a rosy tinge to the cheeks; rouge. [1/2 definitions] |
| bombe |
a frozen dessert consisting of two or more different kinds of ice cream, often with a light, frothy center made of eggs and sugar, frozen in a melon-shaped mold. |
| borscht |
a hot or cold beet soup, often served with sour cream. |
| butter |
a solid white or yellow fat made by churning cream and used for cooking and spreading on bread. [1/3 definitions] |
| café noir |
black coffee (French); coffee without milk or cream. |
| cappuccino |
espresso coffee mixed with steamed milk and often topped with cinnamon or chocolate and whipped cream. |
| charlotte |
a dessert made by lining a mold with cake, which is then filled with custard, cooked fruit, or whipped cream. |
| charlotte russe |
a dessert consisting of a lining of ladyfingers or sponge cake filled with Bavarian cream. |
| cheesecake |
a rich cake containing sweetened cream cheese or cottage cheese, milk, eggs, and flavoring. [1/2 definitions] |
| cherries jubilee |
a dessert made of vanilla ice cream topped with a sauce of black cherries and served flambé with brandy or kirsch. |
| churn |
a container in which cream or milk is beaten or shaken to form butter. [2/4 definitions] |
| cornet |
a cone-shaped wafer or pastry, used to hold ice cream or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| cream |
the part of whole milk that contains fat. Butter is made from cream. [6/2 definitions] |
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