A light, plain sponge cake, named from the 18th Century habit of serving plain cake with a mid-morning glass of Madeira.

Demi-glace sauce flavoured with Madeira, a fortified wine.

A creation of restaurants - a hot curry..

A very large amber yellow variety of fig flushed with brown and reasonable flavour.

Equivalent to two bottles, or 1.6 litres (3.36 pints), of champagne, Bordeaux or Burgundy wines. The full list is: Magnum (2), Jeroboam (4), Rehoboam (6), Methuselah (8), Salmanazar (12), Balthazar (16) and Nebuchadnezzar (20). In the case of the wines a Magnum contains 1.5 litres.