fromage
noun/fɹəˈmɑːʒ/ · /fɹəʊˈmɑːʒ/
Etymology Borrowed from French fromage.
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Uncommon Synonym of cheese.
- It will be necessary to premise, that there is but little difference in the manner of making fromages; they only vary in the taste; so that, by recurring to this number, it will be impossible ever to commit a mistake.[…]Continue to whip it over ice, till you perceive that the isinglass is well melted and blended with the mixture; then put the fromage into a mould, round which you heap a large quantity of ice with salt.[…]N. B.—Fromages require but very little isinglass.[…]The author here closes the list of creams and fromages, although their number is immense.1836, Louis Eustache Ude, “Fromages or Cheeses, or Iced Bavarian Cheeses”, in The French Cook, a System of Fashionable and Economical Cookery, Adapted to the Use of English Families, 13th edition, London: Ebers and Co., […], pages 366–369:
- How cheerful and contented they were in the Bow over the meals which Mrs. Crichton viewed with such pity and contempt,—the bouilli, the salad, the fragrant coffee finely concocted, the home-made bread, the thick preserves, the fromage still of goats’ milk.1860, [Henrietta Keddie], “Lady Somerville’s Maidens”, in Norman Macleod, editor, Good Words for 1860, London: Alexander Strahan and Co., […], part III, page 490, column 2:
4 more examples
- He went straight through the bill of fare, omitting nothing, not even the fromage, which disagreed with him generally,[…]1897, National Magazine, page 371, column 1:
- Soak an ounce of gelatine in half pint of cold water half an hour; press a quart of ripe strawberries through a flour sieve fine enough to prevent the seeds from going through; add a cup of pulverized sugar and a few drops of cochineal to give it color, and the gelatine dissolved in hot water or over the teakettle; set the pan containing the mixture in another pan containing chopped ice; stir until it begins to thicken, then beat in rapidly a pint of whipped cream; line a mould with lady fingers, then fill with the fromage.1899, Mrs. B. F. Head, “Strawberry Fromage”, in The New Century Cook Book: Compiled from Recipes Contributed by Ladies of Chicago and Other Cities and Towns, […], page 249:
- First-rate fromage / Author [Steven Jenkins] on mission to inform public about ‘real’ cheese1997 March 20, Tamara Browning, “First-rate fromage”, in The Times, Munster, Ind., page C-5:
- MOUSE: I had just moved to California—for the cheese—when a casting agent spotted me and said I was perfect for the lead in Mouse Hunt. They offered me all the fromage I could eat, but I never dreamed I’d get the chance to work with my favorite funny human, Nathan Lane.2001, Betty Jo Tucker, Confessions of a Movie Addict, Hats Off Books, →ISBN, page 39:
- Related terms
- fromage blanc, fromage frais, fromager, fromagerie, fromagier, fromagophile, Fromase, fromology, grand fromage