County. Abbreviation for Franche-Comté. It is also a cheese.

A county equivalent to Ariège.

A former county equivalent to Alpes-Maritime in Provence.

Crushed. This term is most commonly used of tomatoes, indicating that they are skinned, deseeded and then chopped coarsely, rather than crushed.

To chop roughly. This often describes tomatoes that have been skinned, deseeded and roughly chopped.

During chocolate making, for three days the mixture of refined chocolate particles and cocoa butter is kept at melting point, and rocked back and forth for 10-12 hours a day in a conch-shaped curved trough.

A superintendent of a building, resident on the premises and acting as a doorman.

"Antilles cucumber." A prickly, oval-shaped variety of cucumber available in the West Indies. They are treated in the same way as more common varieties, being used in salads or pickled.

Cucumbers cut into olive-shaped pieces or strips, sautéed in butter and coated with cream and baked.