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Terms in French 10931-10940 of 10943

White Cap Chimay ®

[French]

Chimay are beers name after the monastery where they are made. White Cap Chimay is amber-coloured with a delicate bitterness. Red Cap is copper-coloured and very smooth. Blue Cap is dark, strong and fruity with a thick, creamy head.

xerès

[French]

Sherry

yaourt

[French]

Fermented milk treated with Lactobacillus bulgaricus. It can be used as a savoury or sweet product which differs depending on the milk, the fermentation and the culture. This is a versatile and widely available product which bears the name "yoghurt" or "yogurt" in Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

yerbilhou

[French]

A Béarnaise white (uncooked) or roasted maize flour and milk porridge, savoury or sweet, often made into fritters. It can be cooked with vegetable stock until thick, cooled, sliced and then fried. In Poitou this is a large biscuit (US: cookie) made from a shortbread-like dough.

Yonne

[French]

Yonne is a department in Burgundy.

Yvelines

[French]

Yvelines is a department in Île-de-France.

zabriko péyi

[French]

San Domingo apricot or mamey

zée

[French] plural zées

John Dory. A high quality, plump, flattish fish with a golden sheen, with an ugly but amiable face. It was first associated with Zeus, then with St Peter, as evidenced by the ‘finger marks’ left by him when he picked it up to remove a coin from its mouth to pay some taxes.

Zepherin Gregoire

[French]

A small, rather plain pear. Squat and dumpy with no distinctive marking, but it does have good flavour and juicy flesh.

zeste

[French]

Zest. This is produced when the flavedo, the coloured part of the skin of citrus fruit, is grated or rubbed.