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fricassee

[frik-uh-see] / ˌfrɪk əˈsi /


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fry
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Child’s landmark 1961 cookbook contained 524 recipes, for aspics and sweetbreads, poached eggs and mushrooms, chicken fricassee and calf’s brains in wine.

From Washington Post Nov. 1, 2022

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

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

The dessicated remains of the few ambuscados that took refuge in the grub-box kept turning up in a variety of frys, stews, and fricassees for the next fortnight.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

Oh, you city children couldn't get up such a frontier appetite for your fricassees, and mince-pies, if you tried a lifetime.

From Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends by Fern, Fanny

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

The dish: fricasseed muskrat, received gingerly at first by the guests.

From Time Magazine Archive

The look she gave me would have fricasseed a rhino.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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 Maupassant, Guy de

The meat may be left raw or it may be prepared by any desirable cooking process, such as frying, fricasseeing, braizing, etc.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

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

To produce a tender, tasty dish, fricasseeing should be a long, slow process.

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




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