单词 | praline |
释义 | pralinen. Originally: a confection made by browning almonds or other nuts in boiling sugar; a nut prepared in this way. Now chiefly: a smooth paste made from this confection, often used as a filling in chocolates; a chocolate filled with this paste.Also applied to other confections prepared in a similar way: see quots. 1809 and 1893. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > nut confections pinionade1329 butter of almonds?c1425 almond butter1502 almond comfit1569 sugar-almond1594 musk almond1675 praline1714 almond snow1723 almond1783 nougat1827 almond rock1841 burnt almond1850 pistachio candy1853 nougatine1868 noyau1899 gianduja1902 Montélimar1908 turron1918 1714 M. Kettilby Coll. above 300 Receipts 82 Prawlins, or Fry'd Almonds. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Almond Almonds fry'd, or Prawlins, a Dish prepar'd by taking a Pound of the best Jordan Almonds,..boil them to a Candy [in a syrup of loaf-sugar], constantly stirring till they are dry. 1770 Borella Court & Country Confectioner 40 We beg leave to use the words praline, [etc.]. 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 265 I left our fort on Beaver Lake,..provided with dried meat, frozen fish, and a small quantity of praline, made of roasted maize, rendered palatable with sugar. 1842 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 288 My mother was sure to mar the business by carrying me off..and rewarding my domestic sufferings with pralines and maccaroons. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. vii. 151 Mrs. Armytage took from her pocket a little jewelled bonbonnière, took out a chocolate praline, and began daintily nibbling it. 1893 M. A. Owen Old Rabbit iii. 39 It was the fragrance of prawleens, that compound of New Orleans molasses, brown sugar, chocolate, and butter. 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. vii. 103 Richer boys emerged from the tuckshop, sucking gelatines and satin pralines and chocolate creams and raspberry noyau. 1937 K. A. Porter Let. 29 Sept. (1990) iii. 152 Old black mammies, wearing the uniform of their legend, sit before the cabildo selling pralines and mammy-dolls. 1951 People 3 June 2/1 (advt.) Crunchy wafers sandwiched with chocolate praline. 1996 Food & Wine Dec. 26/2 A box of five different mousse pralines..will no doubt give you quite a sugar rush. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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