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allumette glacée

[French] plural allumettes glacées

Puff pastry "matchsticks" coated with lemon icing (US: frosting).

allumettes pour hors d'œuvres

[French]

Puff pastry 'matchsticks' used as a basis for a variety of hors d'œuvres, such as allumettes aux anchois, caprice, aux crevettes etc. Could also consist of a coating of forcemeat with cayenne pepper.

allumettes salées

[French]

Puff pastry "matchsticks"topped with savoury titbits, such as anchovies, cheese, olives or shrimps, chicken etc, baked and served as appetisers.

almondier

[French] plural almondiers

Almond tree

aloés

/ah-lon/
[French]

Aloe, which provides an extract which is used to flavour drinks and baked goods.

à l'Olivier ®

[French]

À l’Olivier ® is French for "in the style of Olivier." Very good Provençal extra virgin olive oil blenders. The oils are simple and straightforward and consistent. They are inclined to a good lemony, olive flavour, smooth and not very peppery.

à l'orleanaise

[French]

À l’orleanaise is French for "in the style of Orléans." With chicory (US: Belgian endive) and potatoes.

à l'os

[French]

Served on the bone

alose

/ah-lohz/
[French] plural aloses

Alose. Allis shad. A freshwater shad, from a family of white, migratory fish. The shad is a bony, tasty, oily fish similar to herring, which travels up rivers in spring and is found in deep lakes. In France it is found in the Gironde where it is often grilled over vine shoots or stuffed with sorrel, and in the Loire, where it may be stuffed with beurre blanc. The roe is a great delicacy and shad is also used raw in sushi. Members of the family include Allis shad (Alosa alosa) and the smaller twaite shad or gizzard shad (Alosa fallax).

alose à la bordelaise

[French]

"Shad in the style of the Bordelais." Grilled shad served on a bed of walnut leaves.