demi-glace

noun

: a highly concentrated reduced brown sauce often used as a base for other sauces

Examples of demi-glace in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Copper is an ideal vessel for the type of precision cooking restaurants require—things like maintaining oil temperature when frying wafer thin strips of potato or ensuring a demi-glace doesn’t get scorched at the edges. Alaina Chou, Bon Appétit, 8 July 2024 The bold burger with a whiskey demi-glace and habanero aioli, though, stood out as a dish of Sacramento’s early 2010s. Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 23 May 2024 The hot course section features dry aged tuna with peppered demi-glace, chive, smoked olive oil, sun choke puree and lemon balm. Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2024 The duck breast rests on a bed of demi-glace sauce made from the duck breast trimmings and white peppercorns. Hannah Wise, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024 For those who know their way around a kitchen, Flannery likens the process to reducing a stock to a demi-glace. Mary Squillace, Robb Report, 17 July 2023

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Word History

Etymology

French, half cooking stock, literally, half-ice

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of demi-glace was in 1900

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“Demi-glace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demi-glace. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

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