City roast. The most common roasting style for coffee beans. Medium roasted beans give a mild, inoffensive but unadventurous roast.
A combination of fat or oil and flour, gently cooked through until it becomes nut brown and used for thickening sauces and soups.
Brown or Spanish sauce is a classic brown sauce made from brown meat stock, flour and vegetables, sometimes with added tomatoes.
A small, common shrimp which grows up to 6 cm (2½ inches) long, has a soft shell and turns greyish-brown when cooked. It is found on sandy shores. It has excellent flavour.
A variety of dull green apple which cooks to a frothy fluff, like Bramley apples. It was raised in Stamford, Lincolnshire and is recorded since 1874. This apple cooks to a yellow purée. It is a late-season apple, picked from mid-October in South-East England, is stored and is at its best between November and January.
A brown stew is one in which the meat and vegetables have been browned on all sides before the addition of the stock.
Sheathed woodtuft. fungus. This is a good edible mushroom but easily confused with other poisonous varieties.
