单词 | candying |
释义 | candyingn. 1. The action or process of preserving fruit, peel, etc., by boiling it with sugar to form a crust; the action or process of coating a food with crystallized sugar. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving with sugar comfiting1580 candying1598 confecting1626 reconditure1657 conserving1671 conditing1681 1598 Riddles of Heraclitus & Democritus sig. C3v Had he not been excellent, not onely in transformation of mettals, but also in preseruing, conseruing, candying, distilling, extracting of oiles, balmes, quintessences and spirites, with many other things, no man would haue entertained him. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Essex 318 The candying of them [sc. Eringo roots] being become a Staple commodity at Colchester. 1789 J. Abercrombie Compl. Kitchen Gardener 106 The green tender stalks of the leaves and seed stems in May, while young, are sometimes used for candying. 1861 Daily News 29 Aug. 5/2 They are now gathering it [sc. the crop of fruit] for the purpose of selling it to the confectioners for candying. 2014 Monterey County (Calif.) (Nexis) 29 Jan. During candying, the plump peels will shrink, straighten out and soften. 2. Crystallization or solidification, esp. of sugar or honey. Now rare and chiefly Australian. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing confectionery > [noun] > stages in boiling syrup candy height1617 candying1656 thread1862 softball1869 caramelization1889 1656 Duchess of Newcastle Natures Pictures x. 295 As milk changes not the nature from being milk with curdling, nor bread with crumbling, nor sugar with candying, so water changes not the nature with contractions or dividings into Snow, Haile, Ice and Frost. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Candification The Crystallizing or Candying of Sugar, after it has been dissolv'd in Water, and purify'd. 1754 J. Breues Fortune Hunters 94 Pour it in round the flounders before you put them in the dish, but stir them constantly for fear of candying. 1871 J. R. Nichols Fireside Sci. 99 The ‘candying’ results from boiling the molasses. 1919 Gleanings Bee Culture Oct. 974/1 If a little candied honey is within a cell, one can be quite certain that it will cause the candying of other honey placed there later. 2017 www.localhoney.melbourne 3 June (blog, accessed 28 Jan. 2020) Crystallisation or candying of honey is a completely natural process and nothing to be feared. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1598 |
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