ramekin

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  1. noun A cheese preparation made with eggs and bread crumbs or unsweetened puff pastry, baked and served in individual dishes.
  2. noun A small dish used for baking and serving.

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  • Steam for about 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center or a ramekin comes out fairly clean. —  Fatfree Vegan Kitchen
  • Place an overturned serving plate on top of each ramekin and invert. —  The Milford Daily News Homepage RSS
  • Everything else: Give me a pile of frites and ramekin of aioli in all its garlicky glory and I shall die a happy man.
  • Or, if you're not the ramekin type, you can bake it in a small, greased (8 x 8-inch) square baking pan. —  PW FULL RSS FEED
  • Other stand out dishes include polenta with a fricassee of mushrooms that is as creamy as pudding but served in a delicate silver ramekin so as not to be too filling. —  miami.com -
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  1. French ramequin, perhaps from Dutch dialectal rammeken, toasted bread, or from Low German ramken, diminutive of ram, cream (from Middle Low German rōme).

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  1. Also rammekin, ramequin; from French ramequin, a sort of pastry made with cheese, from Old Flemish rammeken, toasted bread.
 

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/ˈræmɛkɪn/
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