Slightly soured milk, using Lactobacillus acidophilus bacteria, which is easy to digest. Good for people who are lactose intolerant.
Calamondon of calamansi lime. A citrus fruit found in the Philippines though it is actually a hybrid and not found in the wild. Sour, small and round, it is often described as a cross between a tangerine or mandarin orange and a kumquat. It looks rather like a tangerine and is used to flavor foods and drinks
To acidulate is to add a drop of vinegar or lemon juice to add piquancy, sharpness or acidity to a dish. Similarly a few drops of lemon or vinegar or citric acid may be added to water to prevent discolouration of foods. Commonly used with artichokes, cut avocados, bananas and other foods which discolour rapidly on contact with the air. It also refers to the process of souring cream by the addition of lemon juice.
Acidulated water is water to which a few drops of lemon juice or vinegar has been added to acidify it. It often applies to water which has been acidulated for vegetables, to prevent them from losing their colour, many of which go brown when they are exposed to the air. It is also used for poaching fish.
A variety of striped, crisp, juicy dessert apple raised in 1944 by Seabrook & Sons in Boreham, Essex, and having Worcester Pearmain, Rival and Cox's Orange Pippin as antecedents. It is a late-season apple harvested from mid-September in South-East England, is stored, and is at its best between November to December.
The acorn is a nut, the fruit of the oak tree, shaped like a tear drop. Some varieties are edible and can be eaten raw, roasted or baked. They can be ground to use as a coffee substitute or mixed with flour and used in bread..
A truckle or drum of semihard cheese made with sheep's milk, reminiscent of Wensleydale. It has a crumbly paste which sometimes generates its own blue venining and has a golden, crusty, natural rind. It is made in Dyfed by Karen and Don Ross, Little Acorn Products, Mesen Fach Farm Bethania, Llanon, who also make Lady Llanover. This modern cheese is at its best in September and October, made from milk collected in May or June when the meadows are filled with herbs. It is made with raw, whole milk and contains 52% fat (dry). The curds are pressed. It is made with vegetable rennet so is suitable for vegetarians. It weighs 1.8-2.3 kg (3-5 lb).
The acorn barnacle is a small shellfish. The smallest and most common of the barnacles with pale, cone-shaped shells which attach themselves to the bottoms of ships and pilings in harbours.
