compôte

plural compôtes

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of compote.

   Serve the mueli with the compôte and with soya yogurt and soya milk, if you like.

   2009 March 31, Grace Cheetham, “Muesli with Summer Fruit Compôte”, in Simply Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free: Breakfasts Lunches Treats Dinners Desserts, Osprey Publishing, →ISBN

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   Compôte of Morella cherries.—Boil together for fifteen minutes, six ounces of sugar with half a pint of water; add a pound and a quarter of ripe Morella cherries, and simmer them very softly from five to seven minutes: this is a delicious compôte.

   1868, Eliza Acton, “Chapter XXIII. Sweet Dishes, or Entremets.”, in The Menu Book, for Private Families, Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in Which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained., London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, Compôtes of Fruit. (Or Fruit stewed in Syrup.), page 458

   Boil gently for ten minutes, take up the melon in a glass dish, cool the syrup a little, and pour it over the melon. Serve the compôte cold; it is delicious, and costs only about twenty-five cents.

   1879, Juliet Corson, “Chapter X. Dessert Dishes.”, in Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six., 13th edition, New York: Orange Judd Company, Melon Compôte, page 72

   Blanch the fruit in boiling water, then drain, and very carefully remove the skin, cut the peaches in halves and take out the stones. Have ready some syrup, and proceed as directed for apricot compôte.

   1929, Charles Herman Senn, “Cold Sweets”, in Luncheon and Dinner Sweets, Including the Art of Ice Making, →ISBN, Compôte of Peaches

   Apple compôte à la Durban calls for 2 lbs. cooking apples, 6 oz sugar, 1 clove and 1 lemon. […] / Damson compôte, 160 […] / Strawberry compôte, Durban, 224

   1943, Ivie Priestnall-Holden, 750 Dishes from Overseas, Macmillan Publishers

   Gave up smoking leaves ten years ago or more, so most of my leafmould is added to compôte, which it thickens nicely.

   2003 August 12, Rusty Hinge, “Re: Re: Re: Passiflora Query”, in uk.rec.gardening (Usenet), message-ID <2003081223430771094@zetnet.co.uk>