shallot

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Also slice thinly a shallot, which is a cross between a garlic clove and an onion in much the same way that a mule is the cross between a male donkey and a female horse (´cept a lot different).

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  1. noun A type of onion with long, pointed, pear-shaped, aggregated bulbs.
  2. noun The mild-flavored bulb of this plant, used in cookery.

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  • I roasted the duck with a combination of fennel, shallot, and rosemary - quite good. —  Ink In My Coffee
  • Also slice thinly a shallot, which is a cross between a garlic clove and an onion in much the same way that a mule is the cross between a male donkey and a female horse (´cept a lot different). —  American Chronicle
  • Add tuna, shallot, apple, walnuts, celery and pickle relish and toss until all ingredients are coated with dressing.
  • Chop up a shallot, and fry it in butter; add your haricots, with pepper and salt and tomato purée. —  The Belgian Cookbook
  • Chop a shallot, a spring or two of parsley and mix them in, sprinkling in at the same time a dust of nutmeg and a dessertspoonful of grated cheese. —  The Belgian Cookbook
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  1. Obsolete French eschalotte, from Old French eschaloigne, from Vulgar Latin *escalōnia; see scallion.

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  1. Also schallot, and formerly shalot, schalote, chalot, eschalot (= Dutch sjalot = German schalotte = Swedish schalott = Danish skalot); from Old French eschalote, eschalotte, French échalote, an altered form, simulating a diminutive termination, of Old French eschalone, escalogne, escalone, whence English scallion: see scallion.
 

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