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casserole|ˈkæsərəʊl, formerly kæsəˈrəʊl|
[Fr. = It. casserola, Sp. cacerola; the radical form is app. seen in Sp. cazo, F. casse ‘an open-mouthed pan fit to boil things in’ (Cotgr.); but its actual history is obscure; cf. F. cassole, It. cazzuola, Sp. cazuela, mentioned under cassolette.]
1. A kind of stew-pan. Now, a dish cooked and served in a casserole. Also à la casserole, now usually en casserole. Also attrib., as casserole cookery, casserole dish, casserole pan.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Roach, Roaches may..be dress'd in a Casserole. 1849Curzon Visits Monast. 342 Not a scrap of furniture, not even a pipkin or a Casserole. 1870U. Dubois Cosmopol. Cookery §727 Capon of Caux, roasted ‘à la casserole’... Braised or roasted in a stewpan. 1904C. H. Senn (title) Chafing Dish and Casserole Cookery. 1905A. Kenney-Herbert Common-sense Cookery 292 A poulet, or pheasant à la casserole. 1906Filippini Internat. Cook Bk. 378 Heat one tablespoon butter in an earthen casserole pan. Ibid. 565 Sweetbreads en Casserole. Blanch and trim six heart sweetbreads. Place in an earthen casserole dish [etc.]. 1928A. Christie Myst. Blue Train xxxii. 264 The waiter deftly served them with chicken en casserole. 1958A. White tr. Colette's Claudine in Paris i. 9 The yellow chanterelles that go so well with creamy sauces and casserole of veal. 1960Observer 17 Jan. 14/4 A casserole, once upon a time, was a pan with a handle, made in tinned copper, earthenware, enamelled iron or some other heat-resistant material... In Britain to-day the casserole has become a portmanteau word for any receptacle in a fire-resistant material, with or without a lid, that goes both into the oven and on to the dinner-table.
2. The edging or outer portion of certain dressed dishes.
1706Phillips, Casserole..a Loaf stuff'd with a Hash of roasted Pullets, Chickens, etc., and dress'd in a Stew-Pan of the same Bigness with the Loaf; also a kind of Soop or Potage of Rice, etc. with a Ragoo. 1730–6in Bailey. 1852New Syst. Cookery 126 Casserol or Rice Edging for a Currie or Fricassee. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Casserolle..a bordering of rice to a dish. Mod. Dicts. A mould (in the shape of a hollow vessel) of boiled rice, or of mashed potato, baked, in which meats are served at table. Such meats are said to be served ‘en casserole’.
3. fig.
1930W. J. Locke Town of Tombarel iv. 127 The affairs of women..are equally important in this stew, this vast casserole of male and female existence. 1962Economist 17 Nov. 653/1 The..Bill is one of those casserole measures into which bits and pieces..from various reports are dropped.
So ˈcasserole v. trans., to cook in a casserole.
1930D. L. Sayers Strong Poison ix. 114 A casseroled chicken with turnips and carrots done in the gravy. Ibid. 115 It seemed a shame to casserole it [sc. a chicken], for it would 'ave roasted beautiful. 1960News Chron. 11 Oct. 8/6 Instructions for casseroling pigeons in home-made wine. |