Fricassee: (noun; plural "fricassees") meat or poultry cut into small pieces, stewed or fried and served in its own gravy. ❋ Laura (2009)
Undaunted by deflated soufflés and so-so fricassees I pressed on, salvaging the liveliest casualties and serving them to anyone game enough to try them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Culinary Art includes the refined French-influenced fricassees and fricandòs of Piedmont, but also as unassuming a northern staple as polenta with boiled leeks—for which Chioni provides an entire recipe. ❋ John Dickie (2008)
Then ... start thinking of all those pot pies, stews, curries and fricassees, of all the soups and porridges and hot chocolate to come, of hearty pasta dishes, roasted turkeys and duck. ❋ Unknown (2005)
He made French dishes and Spanish dishes, stews, fricassees, and omelettes, to perfection; nor was there any man in England more hospitable than he when his purse was full or his credit was good. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The ragouts looked as if they had been once eaten and half digested: the fricassees were involved in ❋ Unknown (2004)
She could not, without horror, behold an entire joint of meat; and nothing but fricassees and other made dishes were seen upon her table. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On meagre days they eat fish, omelettes, fried beans, fricassees of eggs and onions, and burnt cream. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She advised me to eat fricassees of chickens, and white meat, and to take a good bouillon every morning. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“You are surprised,” said he, “to see me make so much despatch; but I was extremely hungry, and this is one of the best fricassees I ever tasted: the French are very expert in these dishes, that I must allow; and, upon my conscience, I would never desire to eat a more delicate rabbit than this that lies upon my plate.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
Many stews and fricassees are made by dusting pieces of meat with flour, then sautéing the pieces, and only then adding a cooking liquid that will become the sauce. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)
As they have discharged the natural colour from their bread, their butchers-meat, and poultry, their cutlets, ragouts, fricassees and sauces of all kinds; so they insist upon having the complexion of their potherbs mended, even at the hazard of their lives. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On it were four sirloins, six chicken fricassees, stewed veal, three legs of mutton, and in the middle a fine roast suckling pig, flanked by four chitterlings with sorrel. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Friar John was got into the cook-room, examining, by the ascendant of the spits and the horoscope of ragouts and fricassees, what time of day it might then be. ❋ Unknown (2002)
He describes the order of the meal, now clearly articulated, “which opens usually with everything which is soft and liquid, and which should be served hot, such as potages, fricassees, hashes, and salads sic.” ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)
"The reason," said the man, "is only this, that they have placed a fricassee before me, and I eat no fricassees." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
