galantine
Definitions
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- noun A dish of boned, stuffed meat (or fish) that has been lightly poached, and is served cold
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A dish of veal, chicken, or other white meat, boned, stuffed, tied tightly, and boiled with spices and vegetables. It is served cold with its own jelly.
Examples
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To serve, cut the "galantine" in the thinnest possible slices, and serve it with a salad, either celery, or mixed vegetables, or plain lettuce; or it may be served with a sauce tartar or plain mayonnaise dressing.
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I am not saying spend three hours making a chicken galantine.
Michael Ruhlman: Message to Food Editors: What 30-Minute Meals Really Mean
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If they carried away bushels of bonbons in their loaded pockets, the Italians would consign to the same receptacles whole fowls, vast blocks of galantine, and even platefuls of mayonnaise, packed up in paper brought thither for the purpose.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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Félicité bought a pound of galantine de volaille truffée, for which she paid two-and-six, and for which in Piccadilly she would have paid five shillings; she bought half a pound of jellied eel; she bought Pont l'Évêque cheese; flat little Parisian sausages; she bought a glass jar of preserved pears, brown with cinnamon.
Note
The word 'galantine' comes from a Latin word meaning 'jelly', ultimately from a Latin word meaning 'to freeze, coagulate'.
