fricassee

[prettygoodword]

I see I have a week's worth of food words, so I think I have a theme for the week.


fricassee - n., a dish of cut-up pieces of meat (esp. chicken) stewed in a gravy-like sauce and served in its own stock.


Also a verb, to prepare as a fricassee. In English since the 1560s. From French, where it dates back to Old French, at which point the trail gets obscure: possibly it's from a combination of frire, to fry + either casser, to break, crack (from Latin quassāre, to shake) or Vulgar Latin *coāctiāre, to press together (from Latin coāctus, past participle of cōgere, to drive or bring together).

---L.

Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Cool! Seen it around, didn't know what it meant.

...hmm, can you make tofu fricassee?

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Dunno about tofu, but you can fricassee veggies.

---L.