Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
alfredo | cooked with a cheese and egg sauce. No -S. |
aquafaba | water in which pulses, esp chickpeas, have been cooked, used in vegan cookery as a substitute for egg whites. |
bake | to dry, harden or cook by the heat of the sun or fire. |
barbecuer | one who barbecues. |
barbeque | a framework for cooking food over an open fire; (verb) to cook on a barbeque. |
baste | to keep (meat) moist when roasting by drizzling melted fat or butter over. |
bitesize | of food small enough to be eaten in one bite. |
braai | (S. Afr.) to grill or roast meat over open coals. |
braise | to cook slowly with a little liquid in a tightly closed vessel. |
brew | a brewing; a drink of tea or coffee; (verb) to prepare by infusion. |
brine | very salt water (verb) to treat with brine |
broast | to boil and roast food. |
broil | to cook by direct heat. |
brule | (Fr.) in cooking, lightly burnt; (noun) a mixed race person of Canadian Indian and French ancestry. |
cacciatora | (Ital.) of meat, cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms, onions and herbs. |
cacciatore | (Ital.) of meat, cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms, onions and herbs. |
calver | to prepare fish while alive or freshly caught. |
charbroil | to broil over charcoal. |
charbroiler | an apparatus for charbroiling. |
chargrill | to grill over charcoal. |
charquid | made into charqui, jerked. |
clambake | the baking or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed. |
coction | the act of boiling. |
cook | one who prepares food for eating; (verb) to prepare food by heating. |
cookery | the art of cooking. |
curry | (Tamil) meat, fish, vegetables, etc., cooked with a mixture of strong spices and turmeric; (verb) to make a curry of. |
debone | to remove the bones from. |
decoction | the act of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. |
decoctive | relating to decoction, preparation by boiling. |
desalt | to remove the salt from. |
desugar | to remove sugar from. |
dum | cooked with steam. |
flambe | (Fr.) to douse (eg a pancake) with a liqueur and ignite. |
flambee | (Fr.) doused with a liqueur and ignited; (verb) to douse with liqueur and ignite. |
french | to cut into thin strips before cooking. |
fry | to cook in oil or fat. |
fryable | that can be fried. |
glaire | egg white used as medium for binding paint; (verb) to coat with this. |
gralloch | (Gaelic) to gut, esp a deer. |
gratin | (Fr.) the golden-brown crust covering a gratinated food or dish. |
gratinate | to cook with a topping of buttered breadcrumbs. |
gratine | (Fr.) cooked or served au gratin. |
gratinee | (Fr.) to cook or serve au gratin. |
grill | a grating, a gridiron; (verb) to broil on a gridiron. |
grillade | (Fr.) anything grilled. |
homestyle | (especially of food) such as would be made or provided at home. |
kibble | the bucket of a well; (verb) to grind cereal etc. fairly coarse. |
liqueur | a potent alcoholic preparation flavoured or perfumed and sweetened; (verb) to flavour with a liqueur. |
liquidise | to make esp food liquid. |
liquidize | to make esp food liquid. |
lyonnaise | (Fr.) applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces, heated in oil or butter and flavored with onion and parsley. |
makhani | (Hindi) in Indian cookery, a dish cooked in butter or cream > MAKHANIS. |
marengo | (Ital.) designating a dish browned in oil and sauteed in mushrooms, tomatoes, onions and white wine. No -S. |
marinade | a solution used to soak meat, fowl or fish before cooking; (verb) to soak in a marinade. |
mariniere | (Fr.) esp of mussels, cooked in white wine with onions and herbs. |
meuniere | (Fr.) of food, esp fish, lightly coated in flour and fried in butter. No -S. |
microwavable | capable of being microwaved. |
microwave | in radio communication, a wave having a very short wavelength; (verb) to cook by microwave. |
microwaveable | capable of being microwaved. |
miscook | to cook wrongly. |
nicoise | prepared with olives, tomatoes, garlic and anchovies. |
onion | a vegetable (verb) to apply an onion to |
outbake | to surpass in baking. |
outcook | to surpass in cooking. |
overbake | to bake excessively. |
overcook | to cook to excess. |
overcure | to cure (eg food) to excess. |
panbroil | to fry in a pan with little or no fat. |
panfry | to fry in a pan. |
parbake | to partially bake. |
parboil | to boil partially. |
parev | (Yiddish) of food, containing neither dairy nor meat ingredients. |
pareve | (Yiddish) of food, containing neither dairy nor meat ingredients; (sl.) wishy-washy. |
parve | (Yiddish) of food, containing neither dairy nor meat ingredients. |
pectise | to congeal, to cause to set. |
percoct | well-cooked; overdone; (verb) to cook thoroughly. |
picowave | to treat food with gamma waves. |
prebake | to bake in advance. |
preboil | to boil in advance. |
precook | to cook in advance. |
precure | to cure beforehand. |
puree | food material reduced to pulp eg by being processed in a liquidizer; (verb) to make a puree of. |
reboil | to boil, or to cause to boil, again. |
rechauffe | (Fr.) a reheated dish; a fresh concoction of old material. |
recook | to cook again. |
refry | to fry again. |
rice | an important cereal grass (verb) to form soft food, esp potatoes, into strands by passing through a RICER, sieve etc |
rizzor | (Scots) to dry, esp in the sun. |
roast | a joint of meat for the oven; (verb) to cook with dry heat. |
robata | (Japanese) a grill used for Japanese cooking. |
rost | (Obs.) to roast. |
saute | (Fr.) fried lightly and quickly; (verb) to fry in this fashion. |
sherried | cooked or flavoured with sherry. |
shir | to pucker, gather; to bake eggs. |
shirr | to pucker, gather; to bake eggs. |
simmer | to cook below or just at the boiling point. |
souffled | like a souffle, made puffy by beating and baking. |
souffleed | like a souffle, made puffy by beating and baking. |
spatchcock | to split open (a fowl, eel etc) for grilling. |
spitchcock | to split open (a fowl, eel etc) for grilling. |
stewable | that can be stewed. |
sugarcoat | to coat with sugar; to make palatable. |
tableside | (of food preparation etc.) performed adjacent to the table of a dining patron. |
tandoor | (Hindi) a type of Indian cooking in which meat, vegetables etc. are baked over charcoal in a clay oven. |
tandoori | (Hindi) a type of Indian cooking in which meat, vegetables etc. are baked over charcoal in a clay oven. |
thermidor | a method of preparing lobsters, the flesh being mixed with a cream sauce seasoned with mustard, and served in the shell. |
unbaked | not baked. |
unbone | to deprive of bones, as meat; to bone. |
undercook | to cook insufficently or to a lesser extent than usual. |
veronique | (Fr.) served with white grapes eg sole veronique. |
yakimono | (Japanese) in Japanese cookery, grilled food, a grilled dish. |