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CONFECTIONERS SUGAR [13 records]

Record 1 2022-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sugar Industry
CONT

... caster sugar(sometimes spelled castor sugar) is finely ground granulated sugar. It is not as fine as confectioners’ sugar, as it does have a little grit to it, and is not powder-y.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
CONT

Sucre à fruits. Ce sucre finement granulé est conçu pour se dissoudre plus rapidement que le sucre ordinaire [...] Vous pouvez préparer votre propre sucre à fruits en broyant du sucre ordinaire dans un robot culinaire pendant quelques secondes.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sugar Industry
CONT

Confectioners’ sugar is regular granulated white sugar that's pulverized to a powder so fine it's basically sugar dust. On its own, this powder will draw water from the air and clump, so cornstarch is added to prevent this...

Key term(s)
  • confectioner's sugar

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
CONT

Le sucre glace, que l'on nomme sucre en poudre au Québec, est du sucre blanc pulvérisé auquel on ajoute [de la] fécule de maïs afin d'empêcher la formation de grumeaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industria azucarera
OBS

El término "azúcar de lustre" se puede utilizar como nombre masculino o femenino, aunque normalmente "azúcar" se utiliza en el masculino.

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Record 3 2012-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pastries
DEF

A crescent-shaped Moroccan pastry filled with ground almonds, orange flower water, cinnamon, and sugar, and rolled in confectioners’ sugar.

OBS

Traditionally served with mint tea.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pâtisserie
DEF

Pâtisserie orientale en forme de croissant, faite de deux pâtes : d'une part, un mélange d'amandes mondées et pilées, de sucre, de beurre et d'eau de fleur d'oranger, que l'on roule en petites saucisses de la grosseur d'un doigt; d'autre part, une sorte de pâte à crêpes très souple et élastique, étirée soigneusement jusqu'à 2 ou 3 mm d'épaisseur.

CONT

Appelée «corne de gazelle» du fait de sa forme, cette pâtisserie porte en arabe le nom de «kaab el ghazal», ce qui signifie littéralement «cheville de gazelle».

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sugar Industry
CONT

The kinds of sugar used to make frostings are granulated, brown, powdered(confectioner's), and blended syrup(corn and refiner's). Powdered sugar is preferable in uncooked frosting because it is fine grained and dissolves rapidly. Blended syrup prevents the formation of large crystals that cause graininess in cooked frostings. If too much syrup is used, it will keep cooked frostings from hardening.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
OBS

Les sucres liquides. [...] sont obtenus par dissolution à chaud de sucre cristallisé dans de l'eau déminéralisée, suivie d'étapes de filtration et de décoloration permettant d'obtenir un sirop parfaitement pur et limpide.

Spanish

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Record 5 2009-10-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Culinary Techniques
  • Recipes
DEF

To sprinkle foods with a very light powder of flour, confectioner's sugar, cocoa or nuts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques culinaires
  • Recettes de cuisine
DEF

Parsemer une préparation d'une substance fine (mie de pain, fromage râpé, chapelure, sucre à glacer, etc.)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Técnicas culinarias
  • Recetas de cocina
DEF

Esparcir una sustancia en polvo, como harina, azúcar o sal, sobre un alimento de manera uniforme.

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Record 6 2007-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sugar Industry
DEF

A fragrant and flavorful sugar made by burying vanilla beans in granulated or confectioners’ sugar-usually in the proportion of two beans for each pound of sugar.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
DEF

Mélange de saccharose et de vanille naturelle [...]

OBS

vanillé : Aromatisé avec de la vanille naturelle.

Spanish

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Record 7 2007-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pastries (Cooking)
CONT

The Almond Cake... ingredients are simple : butter, sour cream, baking soda, flour, sea salt, sugar, almond paste, 4 egg yolks, almond extract and confectioner's sugar for dusting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pâtisserie (Art culinaire)

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pastries
  • Pastries (Cooking)
DEF

A small pastry consisting of many thin layers of puff pastry, filled with custard, whipped cream, fruit, purée, etc.

CONT

Napoleon... A delectable dessert made with crisp layers of puff pastry spread with crème pâtissière and either glazed with a thin icing or dusted with confectioners’ sugar. Napoleons are usually made in small rectangular shapes just large enough for an individual serving.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pâtisserie
  • Pâtisserie (Art culinaire)
DEF

[...] gâteau fait de fines couches croustillantes de pâte feuilletée entre lesquelles on étale de la crème cuite ou de la confiture de fraise et de la crème fouettée.

OBS

Pluriel : des millefeuilles.

OBS

millefeuille (sing.); millefeuilles (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 9 2004-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Sugar Industry
DEF

A solution of sugar which may be from a variety of sources, such as maple or sorghum, or stages in refining cane and beet sugar such as top syrup, refiners’ syrup, sugar syrup, golden syrup, or by hydrolysis of starch (glucose or corn syrup).

OBS

The Codex Alimentarius definition is : purified, concentrated, aqueous solutions of nutritive saccharides from starch... May be in dried form. Used as a sweetening agent in sugar confectionery; also termed corn syrup, corn starch hydrolysate, starch syrup, confectioners’ glucose, and uncrystallizable syrup. Pancake syrup or maple flavour syrup is flavoured glucose syrup.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
DEF

Solution concentrée de sucre dans de l'eau [...] utilisée dans l'industrie alimentaire pour diverses opérations de pâtisserie ou de confiserie, ainsi que dans l'industrie des boissons et des spiritueux.

OBS

Les produits seront «sirop aux arômes de ...», ou «sirop aromatisé à ...»», ou «sirop au goût de ...», «sirop de ... (nom de fruit) selon les règles d'étiquetage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industria alimentaria
  • Industria azucarera
DEF

Líquido fuertemente azucarado.

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Record 10 1997-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Household Articles - Various
  • Pastries (Cooking)
DEF

A drum-shaped container with a screw-on lid of wire mesh set in a collar, this provides an efficient method of sifting confectioner's sugar over cakes and cookies...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles ménagers divers
  • Pâtisserie (Art culinaire)
OBS

Saupoudroir : Ustensile qui ressemble à une grosse salière à larges trous est muni d'une poignée [...] très utile pour répandre uniformément la farine sur votre marbre ou planche à pâtisserie ou encore le sucre glace sur les gâteaux.

Spanish

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Record 11 1991-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pastries (Cooking)
DEF

hard sauce : A butter and confectioners’ sugar, served on fruit puddings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pâtisserie (Art culinaire)

Spanish

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Record 12 1991-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cooking and Gastronomy
DEF

A mixture of butter and usually confectioners’ sugar, beaten together and flavoured with rum or brandy.... It is served with fruit puddings, particularly Christmas puddings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cuisine et gastronomie

Spanish

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Record 13 1981-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Breadmaking
  • Food Industries
OBS

While chocolate or cocoa powder are frequently used as popular flavouring ingredients in icings, the development of confectioners’ coating made with hard vegetable butters instead of cocoa butter has resulted in a distinctively different type of coverture.(...) Depending on whether the confectionery coating is to be of the light or dark variety, its formula will contain about 34 per cent of hardened butter fat, 45 per cent of powdered sugar, 17 per cent of nonfat dry milk for the light coating, and 5 and 20 per cent of cocoa powder, respectively, for the light and dark coating. s

French

Domaine(s)
  • Boulangerie
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
OBS

Couverture de chocolat: (...) un mélange homogène de pâte de cacao, de sucre, de beurre de cacao en proportions variables, et de lait pour les couvertures lactées.

Spanish

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