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Cambridge burnt cream

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The original crème brûlée, it was first cooked at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Cambridge Favourite strawberry

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An old-fashioned variety of strawberry with good fragrance, but not up to the requirements of present day bulk selling.

Cambridge gage

[English] plural Cambridge gages

Similar to greengage, with yellowish-green flesh and very good flavour. Good for cooking and eating.

Cambridge Gumburner

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Cambridge Gumburner is a good quality cheese, such as Lincolnshire Poacher, a cow's milk cheese from the Lincolnshire Wolds made with unpastuerised milk. It is then aged in the cellars of the Cambridge Cheese Shop.

Cambridge Late Pine strawberry

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A well-flavoured variety of strawberry with good resistance to disease.

Cambridge sauce

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A cold sauce of ground yolks of hard boiled eggs, anchovy fillets, dill, capers, chervil, tarragon and chives, all rubbed through a sieve, made like a mayonnaise, with oil and vinegar and mustard and cayenne pepper. It is served with cold meats.

Cambridge sausage

[English] plural Cambridge sausages

A very meaty pork sausage with much more lean than fat meat and flavoured with herbs.

Cambridgeshire

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camel

[English] plural camels

Camel meat from young animals is eaten in several countries of North Africa and the Middle East. It is said to resemble veal. In Mongolia the fat from the hump is used to make butter and the heart and other offal (US: organ meat) are consumed. It was considered a delicacy in Rome. The milk is widely drunk.

Cameo apple

/KA-mee-oh/
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A dual-purpose modern apple variety, yellow with red flushing with some white speckles which cooks well, retaining its shape. It was a chance seedling of Red Delicious and Golden Delicious. It is a late-season, American apple which appears in late autumn (US: fall) and which has good keeping properties, mellowing on storage. It was formerly known as Carousel.