know your foods that end in -tine

  • a là florentine: a dish characterised by a bed of spinach on which the principle ingredient—topped with a mornay sauce—sits
  • ballotine: a stuffed meat dish (cf. turducken, geoducken, etc.)
  • clementine: a citrus fruit hybrid of a tangerine and a seville orange
  • galantine: a forcemeat wrapped in skin, poached, and usually served cold in aspic
  • gratiné: a dish served with a browned crust of breadcrumbs or cheese
  • langoustine: a small lobster used in paella
  • ovaltine: the malty beverage that slakes grandma’s unquenchable thirst (see also: a manhattan)
  • tartine: an open-faced sandwich
  • saltine: the official cracker of the game called cracker

January 5, 2010
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