Meanings
plural demiglaces · alternative demi-glace · alternative demiglaze
- countableuncountableA rich brown sauce in French cuisine, typically made from veal stock and espagnole sauce, used by itself or as a base for other sauces.
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Calling her husband “the man who would make her Julia Child,” Shapiro deftly distills the mentorship, intelligence, humor and devotion Paul brought to the big, happy, unfocused California girl that was Julia McWilliams and skillfully reduces the sauce of Julia’s cooking ethic into a rich demiglace: “Use all your senses, all the time.
2007 August 26, Dorothy Kalins, “Dropping the Chicken”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
nounsauce Espagnole with extra beef stock simmered down and seasoned with dry wine or sherry
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchdemi-glace
- Frenchdemi-glace
- Englishdemiglace
Borrowed from French demi-glace.
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