financière
Definitions
Involving a heavy sauce flavored with truffles, mushrooms and Madeira wine, and garnished with one or more of olives, kidneys, quenelles, sweetbreads, livers, and cockscombs.
not-comparable
Equivalents
FrançaisFinancière
Examples
“[…] add⟳ a good financière ragoût (No. 89) of cocks’ combs, fat livers, truffles, and some mushrooms; […]”
“Fill⟳ six vol-au-vents made with feuilletage paste (No. 1076) with a quart of financière garnishing (No. 246), and serve⟳ them on a dish with a folded napkin.”
“The classic version of financière sauce is rather esoteric, a tomato-and-Madeira-flavored brown sauce with elaborate garnishes.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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