Meanings
bavarese1
- A bavaroise (creamy dessert).
To serve, carefully unmold the Bavarese onto a serving platter (you may need to dip the base of the mold or souffle-dish briefly in hot water to make unmolding easier).
2008, Domenica Marchetti, Big Night In: More Than 100 Wonderful Recipes, →ISBN3 more examples
A bavarese should not be fluffy, but a tender though firm mold. Sometimes a light pastry is placed on the bottom, particularly when it is to be cut into small pieces for little coffee-time pastries. The vegetable bavarese may be used [...]
1982, Giuliano Bugialli's Classic Techniques of Italian Cooking, page 444There's a creamy panna cotta (a cooked custard like crème brûlée); a Medici pudding of toasted bread, pignoli, raisins and Italian pastry cream, a bavarese (Italian Bavarian cream); and a thick, fudgelike chocolate tart.
1995, The Wine Spectator, volume 20, page 118Serves 4 Just before serving, purée the strawberries, sugar and cognac, and pour over the Bavarese in the individual glasses, creating a thick surface. Serve with whole strawberries or chocolates.
2016, The Vatican Cookbook: Presented by the Pontifical Swiss Guard, →ISBN
Bavarese2
- obsoleterareBavarian.
(By-the-bye, how is it that the brazen helmet of a Bavarese maiden is omitted?)
1846, The New Monthly Magazine, edited by W. Harrison Ainsworth, Review of the Book of Costume, page 2491 more example
[...] the petty districts depending on Oldenburgh, and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and by the Bavarese Circle of the Rhine; and on the West by the Dutch Monarchy and the Kingdom of Belgium.
1845, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge
- obsoletepluralplural onlyrareBavarians collectively.
The picture of devastated Palermo which he draws fills up the measure of the dastardly oppression which has now passed away; more disgraceful excesses than those committed by the Bavarese, as the Sicilians called the royal troops, were [...]
1861, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 75, page 553
Origin
bavarese · noun
- Italianbavarese
- Italianbavarese
- Englishbavarese
Borrowed from Italian bavarese.
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