[Sca-cooks] mangling language

[Gorgeous Muiredach]

At 11:00 AM 9/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>Well, yesterday (except for the La Soupe) the whole menu was spelt
>correctly. Then, today, an offender. This one--Demi Glaze.

Demi-Glaze is often not only a spelling mistake, but a cooking concept
mistake.  People assume that Demi-Glace and Glace are the same thing, but
one somewhat "less".  It's not quite true.

A demi glace is basically a thickened brown stock, with some other
ingredients added (In college I had to write 500 times that "La demi glace
est la sauce espagnole a son supreme degre de perfection", demi glaze is
the Spanish sauce at its supreme degree of perfection...).  While Glace de
viande is a *reduction* of a stock.  <shrug>  COmpletely different uses

>And La Soupe. At least he's consistent about that one.

I'm sorry.  I'm not sure what is wrong with "la soupe".  Care to explain?

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