Crossword clues for marmite
Wiktionary
n. A rounded earthenware cooking pot.
WordNet
n. soup cooked in a large pot
a large pot especially one with legs used e.g. for cooking soup
Wikipedia
Marmite is the brand name for two similar food spreads: the original British version, since 2000 a Unilever product; and a modified version produced in New Zealand by Sanitarium Health Food Company and distributed in Australia and the Pacific. Marmite is made from yeast extract, a by-product of beer brewing. Other similar products include the Australian Vegemite (which is thicker in texture and less tangy), the Swiss Cenovis and the German Vitam-R.
The British version of the product is a sticky, dark brown food paste with a distinctive, powerful flavour, which is extremely salty. This distinctive taste is reflected in the British company's marketing slogan: "Love it or hate it." The product's name has entered British English as a metaphor for something that is an acquired taste or tends to polarise opinions.
A version with a different flavour has been manufactured in New Zealand since 1919. This is the only product sold as Marmite in Australia and the Pacific, whereas elsewhere in the world the British version predominates.
The image on the front of the British jar shows a " marmite" , a French term for a large, covered earthenware or metal cooking pot. British Marmite was originally supplied in earthenware pots, but since the 1920s has been sold in glass jars shaped like the French cooking pot.
Marmite pot]] A marmite (pronounced mar-meet) is a traditional crockery casserole dish found in France. It is famed for its "pot-belly" shape.
According to the French culinary reference work Le Répertoire de la Cuisine, a marmite can be either a stock pot or "a French pot with lid similar to a casserole with two finger-grips on each side."
It lends its name to Marmite, a British savoury spread.
During the First World War, French troops used the term "marmite" for an incoming artillery shell (of the type you hear coming, what the Brits called a "whizz-bang").
- Louis Saulnier, Le Répertoire de la Cuisine↩
Usage examples of "marmite".
Et ils songent tous deux a la soupe aux choux qui fume dans la marmite pendue a la cremaillere, au milieu de la grande cheminee.
The dark marmite spread was very salty, catching him by surprise, and he pulled a face.
She made do with a crust with marmite and a cup of instant coffee, and wandered outside.
Helen, and at other times he thinks nah, it was just the Marmite really.
But then, the Marmite Problem still nags away at him, too, and he ponders the question: do I crave the taste of Marmite because I associate it with Helen or do I crave Helen simply because I love the taste of Marmite?
He takes the jar of Marmite out of the cupboard and licks around the rim of the jar.
I took cheese and Marmite sandwiches up with me, and found a mossy ledge amongst the ice ridges.
Now the sun was on her back, and she rested against the window, just for a moment because she could hear movement above the kitchen, and now she thought of the Marmite sandwiches.
Besides fatting, picking his nose, and strumming, his other passion in life was eggy-weggies and Marmite soldiers.
Ashley panted slightly, as if she had just made the journey herself, while shoving marmite and bread into her carryall.
I assured her, passing her the Marmite, Mintolas and AA batteries I had promised her from my last visit.
Orange marmalade, black marmite, yellow butter, brown toast, white sugar.
I had had that day apart from the coffee was some bread and Marmite and two glasses of milk, and even that had been half frozen in its carton.
In lieu of Squeak food, they were supping on the least putrid human groceries available: dandelion salad with Angostura bitters, grilled black pudding, squid fritters, kim chee, Icelandic hrokkbraud and Marmite, Bananas Foster, and a big pitcher of scorpion cocktails made with Demerara rum.
At Prep School in those days, a parcel of tuck was sent once a week by anxious mothers to their ravenous little sons, and an average tuck-box would probably contain, at almost any time, half a home-made currant cake, a packet of squashed-fly biscuits, a couple of oranges, an apple, a banana, a pot of strawberry jam or Marmite, a bar of chocolate, a bag of Liquorice Allsorts and a tin of Bassett's lemonade powder.