单词 | breadcrumb |
释义 | breadcrumbn. 1. A small fragment or crumb of bread; esp. (in plural) crumbs produced by crumbling or pulverizing soft or dry bread, used in cooking as a thickening or binding agent, or as an outer coating which becomes crispy after frying, grilling, or baking. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > piece of bread > [noun] > bread-crumbs breadcrumba1529 rasping1736 breading1868 panko1970 a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. A.ivv It..wold syt vpon my lap And seke after small wormes And somtyme white bred crommes. 1660 R. May Accomplisht Cook 138 Onions slic't and boild in fair water, and a little salt, a few bread crumbs, beaten pepper, nutmeg, three spoonfuls of white wine, [etc.]. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper ii. 11 When you fry any Kind of Fish, wash them clean, dry them well with a Cloth, and dust them with Flour, or rub them with Egg and Bread Crumbs. 1884 N. Lake Menus made Easy viii. 150 Pouding à la Snowdon—a steamed pudding of suet, breadcrumbs, brown sugar and marmalade. 1905 E. Tuite Dishes for All Seasons 93 Form the mixture into croquettes, dip each into egg and bread crumbs; fry a golden brown in dripping. 1985 M. Hartland Seven Steps to Treason xiv. 115 They lunched on mushrooms fried in breadcrumbs. 2010 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 24 Mar. d4/5 Klopse:..this German meatball has a base of ground beef, veal, pork, onions, breadcrumbs and eggs. 2. As a mass noun. The soft inner part of bread, as distinct from the crust; = crumb n. 3a.figurative in quot. 1879. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > crumb of loaf pith?c1425 crumbc1430 breadcrumb1656 1656 tr. Marnettè Perfect Cook xlvii. 120 Adde thereunto about the bignesse of a Hens Egg of white bread crum grated very small. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ii. 33/1 To carry forth my supper (bread-crumb boiled in milk), and eat it out of doors. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such iv. 85 He was..acceptable in society as a part of what we may call its bread-crumb. 1952 Macleay Argus (New S. Wales) 5 Sept. 6/5 Cover surface with roughly pulled white breadcrumb mixed with more grated cheese. 2004 S. P. Cauvain in D. Kilcast Texture in Food II. xviii. 436 Breadcrumb is expected to be moist eating but the crust is expected to be dry. 3. a. Each of a trail of breadcrumbs (sense 1) left along the course of a complicated or labyrinthine route, by means of which the person laying the trail may be followed or the route may be retraced to its starting point. Hence frequently figurative: each of a series of (typically deliberately placed) clues or pieces of information or evidence. Originally and frequently in trail of breadcrumbs. Cf. breadcrumb trail n. 1.With allusion to the German fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, as recorded by the Brothers Grimm in the early 19th cent., in which Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs as he and Gretel are led away into the forest, in the hope of being able to find their way home. ΚΠ 1891 A. C. Townsend tr. A. Laurie Fire-worshipper's Secret vii, in Helena (Montana) Independent 5 July ii. 9/2 They could not tell whether they were advancing or retreating... Gargaridi had proposed making a trail of bread crumbs, but..Maurice had scouted any such useless and wasteful experiment. 1991 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 8 July You follow the bread crumbs to track Brett Butler's trail through the big leagues. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Nov. b6/3 Mr. King leaves a fine trail of bread crumbs: clues with nostalgic exactitude to summon the work of Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes. b. Computing. Each of a set of markers which, taken together, enable a sequence of steps to be followed or reconstructed; spec. each of the connected elements constituting a breadcrumb trail (breadcrumb trail n. 2). ΚΠ 1980 Proc. POWERCON 7 J6-2 To use the fairy tale analogy, we will leave a trail of breadcrumbs or, in this case, a trail of bits, to follow back to the fault. Data on key parameters..will be needed to reconstruct the status of the power supply. 1988 M. Bernstein in ACM SIGOIS Bull. 9 43 We display a small marker—a bread crumb left on the trail as the reader passed this way earlier—to indicate choices which lead to material the reader has already seen. 2013 J. D. Applen Writing for Web iii. 129 With breadcrumbs, patrons can navigate ‘backwards’ or ‘up’ to the link where they were previously. Derivatives ˈbreadcrumby adj. coated with breadcrumbs; of the nature of or resembling breadcrumbs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [adjective] > crumb of loaf crummy1579 crumby1767 breadcrumby1880 1880 M. E. Braddon Asphodel i, in All Year Round 31 July 269/1 There were some thin slices of carmine ham, with a bread-crumby edge. 1990 Financial Times 25 Aug. (Weekend FT section) p. xvii/5 Le P'tit Normand was able to supply me with a seemingly endless array of local meat products: salami style sausages..; pain de veau, a mild breadcrumby paté; [etc.]. 2009 S. Maconie Adventures on High Teas 324 The Handmade Scotch Eggs Company..sells thirty different varieties of the ovoid breadcrumby snack. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). breadcrumbv. transitive. To cover (an item of food) with breadcrumbs, typically after first coating it with flour and then a liquid (usually beaten egg), preparatory to grilling, frying, or baking it to produce a crispy outer coating. Cf. bread v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > garnish [verb (transitive)] > cover with crumbs crima1450 crumb1579 bread?1600 breadcrumb1817 to egg and crumb1834 gratiné1978 1817 W. Kitchiner Apicius Redivivus sig. P9 Instead of egging and bread crumbing it, flour it, and fry it in butter. 1854 A. Soyer Shilling Cookery 35 The heads when cooked may be egged and bread-crumbed over. 1927 Daily Express 17 Nov. 5/2 The chicken was ‘egged and breadcrumbed’ in readiness for the dish. 2016 Sun (Scotl. ed.) (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Features section) Katsu is a great method of breadcrumbing food. Derivatives ˈbreadcrumbed adj. (of an item of food) that has been covered with breadcrumbs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > [adjective] > covered with crumbs breaded1702 breadcrumbed1876 gratiné1937 gratinéed1980 1876 Graphic 8 July 30/2 From the mollusc simply taken from his shell to the savoury stew or the bread-crumbed patty. 2013 Cambr. Evening News (Nexis) 4 Mar. I had been daydreaming all day about the breadcrumbed mushroom slivers with garlic mayonnaise. ˈbreadcrumbing n. the action or process of covering an item of food with breadcrumbs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > [noun] > covering with crumbs gratin1806 breadcrumbing1854 1854 A. Soyer Shilling Cookery 60 These may all be rubbed previous to bread-crumbing, with either onion or eschalot. 2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 5 Feb. (Good Living section) 8 The fish cakes, with all that mixing, mashing and breadcrumbing, are great for getting little hands messy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1529v.1817 |
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