bavaroise

plural bavaroises

1. A drink of sweetened milk, eggs and tea, often with some sort of spirit.

   Bavaroise is taken at night before retiring.

   1894, Charles Ranhofer, The Epicurean, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 283

   3 more examples

   In the A flat andante, flowing like sweet honey, the waiter brings him, instead of coffee, a bavaroise; in the defiant C major Beethoven bellows out for his coffee: the waiter looks anxiously around, and, after a time again brings the bavaroise, but this time milled with “Obers.”

   1870 October 22, “Beethoven, Goethe, and Michael Angelo”, in Dwight’s Journal of Music, volume XXX, number 16, pages 329–330

   Cyrillia always prepares something for me on my return from the beach,—either a little pot of fresh cocoa-water, or a cocoyage, or a mabiyage, or a bavaroise.

   1890, Lafcadio Hearn, Two Years in the French West Indies, Harper & Brothers, page 348

   He ordered himself a bavaroise and he had begun to sip it when he was aware of a presence at his elbow.

   1934, Rafael Sabatini, Venetian Masque, House of Stratus, published 2001, →ISBN, page 256

2. proscribedsometimesA cold dessert made from custard, cream and gelatine.

   Pistachio-and-Strawberry Bavaroise

   1902, Janet McKenzie Hill, Practical Cooking and Serving, Doubleday, Page & Company, page 519

   3 more examples

   Saint Foix had a duel with a gentleman, whom he saw at the Café Procope, eating a bavaroise.

   1857 September, “The Code of Honor”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XV, number LXXXVIII, page 521

   A chocolate bavaroise may be made the same as above, adding two ounces of chocolate dissolved in a little water just before the mixture is strained.

   a. 1914, Lida Seely, Mrs. Seely’s Cook Book, The Macmillan Company, published 1914, page 308

   There are any number of variants on the classic bavaroise, the most elegant of chilled puddings.

   2005, Joanne Harris, Fran Warde, The French Market: More Recipes from a French Kitchen, HarperCollins, published 2006, →ISBN, page 196

   Synonyms: bavarois, crème bavaroise, Bavarian cream