Meaning

(cooking) A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock..

Definitions by Sense

1. (cooking) A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
2. (cooking) A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
3. A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
4. (obsolete) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse, sheep, or donkey.
5. A toadstone.
6. A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
7. An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
8. (rare) The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.

Example Sentences

“Chicken cutlets,” said she, “or crapaudine, and some serniki — only let them be as good as they were last night.

4. Crapaudine of chicken , mashed potatoes

The method called crapaudine is another means of preparing a bird for the grill.

But how about a 1970s twist – a chicken crapaudine, which is spatchcocked by cutting under the breast but over the legs, and then flipped out?

Spring chickens singed, split, washed, backbone andd breastbone removed, trussed out like a frog, seasoned with salt and peper, rolled in olive oil, broiled well done ; served on toast with crapaudine sauce poured around, garnished with parsley and lemon.

Crapaudine Sauce

This includes the familiar Bearnaise and tartar sauces, as well as more mysterious sounding ones, like crapaudine (froglike) sauce, which is served with rabbit.

A few years ago Herr von Rader and his companions would have been sentenced to quite a curious kind of punishment which was at that time considered in the Foreign Legion to be a radical cure for deserters — a kind of mediaeval torture which, by the way, was not kept for deserters solely, but came into use very often. This was the “silo” and the “crapaudine.”

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