Crossword clues for fondue
fondue
- Dipping dish
- Melted-cheese dish
- Swiss cheese concoction
- Communal dish
- Cubes of meat or seafood cooked in hot oil and then dipped in any of various sauces
- Hot sauce-like melted cheese or chocolate in which bread or fruits are dipped
- Cheese concoction
- Sauce of cheese melted in wine
- Dipping sauce
- Cheese dish
- Party snack
- Treat with chocolate or cheese
- Cheesy entree
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fondu \Fon`du"\ (f[o^]n"d[.u]"), a. [F. fondu, p.p. of fondre to melt, blend. See Found to cast.]
Blended; gradually changing or passing into each other by subtle gradations; -- said of colors or of the surface or material on which the colors are laid.
Melted. [Also spelled fondue.]
fondue \fon`due"\ (f[o^]n"d[.u]"), a. [F. fondu, p.p. of fondre to melt, blend. See Found to cast.] Melted. [Also spelled fondu.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1878, from French cooking term fondue "a cheese-pudding," literally "melted" (15c.), noun use of fem. of fondu, past participle adjective from fondre "to melt" (see found (v.2)).
Wiktionary
n. A dish made of melted cheese, chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped. vb. To prepare or serve as a fondue.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Fondue ( or ; ) is a Swiss, Italian, and French dish of melted cheese served in a communal pot ( caquelon or fondue pot) over a chafing stand (réchaud) heated with a candle or spirit lamp, and eaten by dipping bread into the cheese using long-stemmed forks. It was promoted as a Swiss national dish by the Swiss Cheese Union (Schweizerische Käseunion) in the 1930s, and was popularized in North America in the 1960s.
Since the 1950s, the name "fondue" has been generalized to other dishes in which a food is dipped into a communal pot of liquid kept hot in a fondue pot: chocolate fondue, in which pieces of fruit or pastry are dipped into a melted chocolate mixture, and fondue bourguignonne, in which pieces of meat are cooked in hot oil or broth.
Usage examples of "fondue".
There were no kickshaws, by which term Mr Templecombe scornfully described fondues and trifles and jellies, opining sagely that Philip had no greater liking for them than he had himself.
When the second course made its appearance, with its plethora of vegetables, jellies, fondues, blancmanges, and Chantilly baskets, she refused to allow her aunt to serve her from the larded guinea-fowls which graced the head of the table, or Sir Timothy to tempt her to a morsel of the ducklings set before him, and ended her repast with some asparagus.
You can be dipped in and out like a bit of beef fondue, a toe or a foot or a hand at a time, as often and as slow as I choose to do it.
Joyce set her fork down and wiped a dot of cheese fondue off her chin with a paper napkin.
Thomas had whipped up a simple meal: cheese fondue, venison broth with noodles, fish poached in wine, and crepes with boysenberry jam.
I once had a very difficult job interview in which I had not only to explain that I could hit an olive with a bow and arrow, memorize up to three pages of poetry, and determine if there was poison mixed into cheese fondue without tasting it, but I had to demonstrate all these things as well.
I regret not being able to deliver a smoking gun, but I think a smoking fondue fork will do just as well, although from the sound of it I can see why nobody ever used it in the old stories.