Bavaroise

/bævəɹˈwɑz/ · noun

Meaning

A drink of sweetened milk, eggs and tea, often with some sort of spirit..

Definitions by Sense

1. A drink of sweetened milk, eggs and tea, often with some sort of spirit.
2. (sometimes proscribed) A cold dessert made from custard, cream and gelatine.

Example Sentences

In the A flat andante, flowing like sweet honey, the waiter brings him, instead of coffee, a bavaroise; in the defiant C major Beethoven bellows out for his coffee: the waiter looks anxiously around, and, after a time again brings the bavaroise, but this time milled with “Obers.”

Cyrillia always prepares something for me on my return from the beach,—either a little pot of fresh cocoa-water, or a cocoyage, or a mabiyage, or a bavaroise.

Bavaroise is taken at night before retiring.

He ordered himself a bavaroise and he had begun to sip it when he was aware of a presence at his elbow.

Saint Foix had a duel with a gentleman, whom he saw at the Café Procope, eating a bavaroise.

Pistachio-and-Strawberry Bavaroise

A chocolate bavaroise may be made the same as above, adding two ounces of chocolate dissolved in a little water just before the mixture is strained.

There are any number of variants on the classic bavaroise, the most elegant of chilled puddings.

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