Callet

Quick meaning: Callet is a noun meaning A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.

Meaning

A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) A trull or prostitute.
2. (obsolete) A scold or gossip.
3. (obsolete) To rail or scold.

Example Sentences

hear her in her spleen Callet like a butter-quean

You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down.

We call for chocolate chips in our Chocolate Chip Cookies (page 1010), but there's another chocolate product on the market that's sometimes used for the same purpose: chocolate callets, which are formulated for melting.

In the shops and bakery we use chocolate callets (or chips) in our baking. They come in a range of cocoa percentages and have the great advantage of melting evenly, which makes the chocolate less temperamental to work with.

Word Forms

• callets
• calleting
• calleted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trull, cuttle, varletto, quail, tart, tartlet.

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