macerate

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I know that letting the fruit macerate, draining the fruit over a colander to collect the juices and reducing the liquid is a bit fussy, but I wanted try out Rose Levy Beranbaum's method for decreasing the amount of thickener needed for the fruit filling.

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  1. transitive verb To make soft by soaking or steeping in a liquid.
  2. transitive verb To separate into constituents by soaking.
  3. transitive verb To cause to become lean, usually by starvation; emaciate.
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  • If you don't have time to let it macerate, serve it very cold and use lots of ice.
  • Cover with a plate or foil and set in the fridge to macerate overnight. —  WordPress.com News
  • We crushed the grapes using Sal's small but effective rotary crusher and put them into large plastic barrels to macerate and ferment for two weeks. —  GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines
  • Discard the lemon balm leaves and let the fruit macerate for 30 minutes to one hour. —  Tartelette
  • Instead of immediately removing the skins of the red grapes, which contains the color pigment, from the juice, winemakers allow the juice to macerate briefly with the skins until the desired amount of color is extracted. —  The Pour
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  1. Latin mācerāre, mācerāt-; see mag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin maceratus, past participle of macerare (later Italian macerare = Portuguese Spanish Provencal macerar = French macérer), make soft or tender, soften by steeping, weaken, harass; prob. akin to Russian mochitĭ, steep, Greek μάσσ, σ1ετν, knead. Cf. mass, macaroni, macaroon, ult. from the same root.
 

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