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crème, n.|krɛːm, kreɪm|
Also crême.
[Fr., = cream n.2]
1. A cream (cream n.2 2 a) or custard. So crème brûlée, one topped with caramelized sugar; crème caramel, a custard coated with caramel; crème Chantilly [cf. Chantilly 3], whipped cream sweetened and flavoured with vanilla; crème renversée, a custard turned out of a mould.
1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery xx. 442 Crême à la Comtesse..is a very delicate kind of sweet dish, which..may be rendered more recherché by a flavouring of maraschino. 1846A. Soyer Gastronomic Regenerator 528 Crème au Caramel... Have three quarters of a pint of milk in which you have boiled an ounce of isinglass, pour it upon the caramel. 1865M. B. Chesnut Diary 5 Apr. (1905) xx. 376 We keep a cookery book on the mantelpiece, and when the dinner is deficient we just read off a pudding or a crême. 1868E. Acton Mod. Cookery xxiii. 484 The French make their custards, which they call crêmes, also in small china cups. 1886M. Clark tr. Brisse's 366 Menus 163 Crème brûlée. Burnt cream. [Ibid. 324 Crème à la Chantilly. Cream à la Chantilly. 1888Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxi. 828 Caramel Pudding. (Fr.—Crême Renversée.)] 1906Ibid. lxv. 1730 Crème Caramel renversée. Caramel Pudding. 1908C. H. Senn Menu Book 273 [Crème] Chantilly, whipped double cream, with vanilla flavour. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Crême brulée, caramel or browned sugar with cream. 1912H. H. Munro Unbearable Bassington xv. 271 Jerome and the girls don't want to eat any more crème renversée. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. v. 592 Our crême caramel is a much showier sweet than anything they've got at the House. 1930A. Bennett Imperial Palace lx. 478 Evelyn heard the order: vermicelli soup,..cutlets,..crême caramel. 1935Punch 9 Jan. 33/1 Oh, many a crème have I consumed. 1949‘C. Hare’ When Wind Blows 153 Spooning into his mouth the last of the tasteless crême caramel which the club almost invariably provided by way of a sweet. 1958R. Godden Greengage Summer ix. 95 Meringues with crème chantilly. 1959Listener 6 Aug. 227/2 To make the crême brulée take 1 pint of double cream, 6 oz. of caster sugar, 4 egg yolks, and vanilla essence. 1970Simon & Howe Dict. Gastronomy 143 Crème pâtissière, also known as confectioner's custard or baker's custard, this is a thick French custard or cream used to fill tartlets, cream horns or puff creams.
b. A name for various syrupy liqueurs, as crème de menthe (peppermint), crème de vanille, crème de noyau, crème de cacao. (Cf. cream n.2 2 e.)
a1821Keats Cap & Bells, in Poet. Wks. (1907) 472 The least drop of crème de citron, crystal clear. c1870in H. W. Allen 3 Saint James's St. (1950) viii. 186/2 Liqueurs..Creme de Noyau—10/-. 1877Cassell's Dict. Cookery 382/2 Noyau, or Crême de Noyau, is a sweet cordial flavoured with bitter almonds. 1892T. F. Garrett Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 477/1 Crêmes, a French term applied to certain cordials and liqueurs, to indicate the cream-like smoothness of these manufactures. 1903Daily Mail 11 Sept. 3/3 Crême de menthe, with its strong peppermint flavour, is the one almost exclusively favoured by ladies. 1930E. Waugh Labels 26 Shady young men in Charvet shirts sit round the bar repairing with powder-puff and lipstick the ravages of grenadine and crême de cacao. 1930,1958[see Alexander n.2]. 1961I. Fleming Thunderball x. 112 A tall glass of his favourite drink—crème de menthe frappé with a maraschino cherry on top.
c. crème de riz, a fine rice-flour; ground rice.
1896A. B. Marshall Cookery Bk. (ed. 2) 15 (Advt.), Marshall's Crème de Riz..highly prized for Cakes, Puddings, Blancmanges. 1960E. David Fr. Prov. Cooking 97 Crème de Riz, Ground Rice.
2. Phr. crème de la crème, the élite, the very pick of society.
1848F. A. Kemble Let. 22 Jan. in Rec. Later Life (1882) 336 The..pretensions of an Austrian crème de la crème are comprehensible and consistent. 1860Once a Week 28 July 119/2 The elders—the crême de la crême, or those initiated into the highest mysteries of the sect. 1867S. W. Baker Nile Tribut. xvii. 451 The society in this district was not crême de la crême. 1898B. L. Farjeon Miriam Rozella xi, Need I say that he and Lady Laverock move in the best society, and are crême de la crême? 1920D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl i. 8 In his palmy days, James Houghton was crême de la crême of Woodhouse society. 1967R. Shaw Man in Glass Booth vi. 70, I love you all for you are the finest of your kind, the crème de la crème Americaine. |