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vol-au-vent

[ vaw-loh-vahn ]

noun

Cooking.
  1. a large shell of light, flaky pastry for filling with vegetable, fish, or meat mixtures, usually with a sauce.


vol-au-vent

/ ±¹É”±ô´Ç±¹É‘̃ /

noun

  1. a very light puff pastry case filled either with a savoury mixture in a richly flavoured sauce or sometimes with fruit
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of vol-au-vent1

1820–30; < French: literally, flight on the wind
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of vol-au-vent1

C19: from French, literally: flight in the wind
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Viewers may emerge from “The Taste of Things†desperate to find a restaurant that serves a good vol-au-vent, a turbot in hollandaise sauce or the meringue-coated ice cream confection known as baked alaska.

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Each course is practically a feast unto itself: vol-au-vent, roasted veal loin, poached turbot, baked Alaska — and that’s just the first half-hour.

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Rather than braising it, my grandfather André would cook it in a vol-au-vent and combine with crayfish.

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Jones displays his affection for pastry again in a fine vol-au-vent: puff pastry with a well of creamy leeks and fingers of steelhead trout on top, its gleam courtesy of orange trout roe.

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They will be there for hours and hours, and yet, it seems, they will not get so much as a vol-au-vent.

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