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casa de jantar

/KAH-zuh deu jhuhn-TAHR/
[Portuguese]

Dining room

casa de pasto

/KAH-zuh deu PASH-too/
[Portuguese]

A canteen-style eatery, usually open at lunch times only and serving a cheap menu.

casca

/KAHSH-kuh/
[Portuguese]

Rind. Skin of fruit.

cascas sortidas

/KAHSH-kuhsh sor-TEE-dush/
[Portuguese]

Mixed peel

caseiro/caseira

/kuh-ZAY-roo/
[Portuguese] plural caseiros/caseiras

Home-made

casquinha de caranguejo

/kush-KEEN-yush deu kuh-rung-WEH-jhoh/
[Portuguese]

Dressed crab. Crab that has been picked from the shell and claws, the brown and white meat kept separately, and then replaced in the shell and served with a light dressing.

casquinha de siri

/kush-KEEN-yush deu see-ree/
[Portuguese]

Dressed crab. Crab that has been picked from the shell and claws, the brown and white meat kept separately, and then replaced in the shell and served with a light dressing.

casta

/KAHSH-tuh/
[Portuguese]

Grape. On a wine label this will indicate the variety of grape.

castanha

/Kush-TUH-nyuh(sh)/
[Portuguese] plural castanhas

Chestnut. To peel chestnuts the hard outer skins need to be slit and then the chestnuts roasted or grilled until these skins crack. They can then be peeled off and the chestnuts boiled for ten minutes, after which it should be relatively easy to rub off the inner, papery brown skin. It is also a name for marzipan sweets.

castanha

/Kush-TUH-nyuh(sh)/
[Portuguese] plural castanhas

Sweets made from sugar and egg yolks, marzipans glazed with a blow lamp to give a bronzed effect. It is also chestnut.