terrine

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Trim the leeks of their roots and most of the green tops, leaving some for flavour and colour - they should be the same length as the terrine or tin.

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  1. noun An earthenware container for cooking and serving food.
  2. noun Any of various dishes prepared or cooked in a terrine.

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  • They too kept their house open and she said she had always a terrine de crise ready in her larders. —  My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
  • How about mushrooms in cream and sherry for a starter and then the terrine of duck -- and I see that there's that delicious pudding. —  Tulips For Augusta
  • Trim the leeks of their roots and most of the green tops, leaving some for flavour and colour - they should be the same length as the terrine or tin. —  The Guardian World News
  • The substitution of mortadella for the Vietnamese bologna/pork roll also worked, but their house-made terrine, which is nice on its own, lacked the wonderful funkiness of Vietnamese head cheese and pâté. —  Serious Eats: New York
  • a cylindrical rillette of rough-shredded pork with herbs and aromatic spices and two slices of rabbit terrine, a mosaic of peppercorns and tender meat. —  Austin360 - XL Headlines
 

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  1. French; see tureen.

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  1. Also terrene, terreen, and corruptly tureen; = German terrine, from French terrine, an earthen pan or jar, from Middle Latin terrineus, made of earth, from Latin terra, earth: see terra.
 

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