junket
- noun
- /ˈdʒʌŋkɪt/
- Archaic
:
cuajada
- The chef prepared a traditional junket using fresh milk and sweetening it with honey.
Examples
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For dessert, we enjoyed a creamy junket flavored with vanilla and topped with fruit.
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After dinner, she served a chilled junket that was a favorite among the children.
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Then instead of a nice cool cylinder of jellied cranberry sauce sliced into disks, there was some kind of cranberry junket.
Fiction book (1995) -
He is taking baby food from a spoon: soft mince, mashed potato, a little tripe, porridge, jelly, junket.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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1.0
Ice cream with sweet sauce, for example fruit or nuts
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2.7
A frozen sweet made from fruit juice or crushed fruit without milk, with a soft, slushy texture
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8.8
A small sweet food like candy or fruit covered in sugar eaten as a treat
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5.4
Ice cream with small pieces of sweet candied fruit
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2.9
A fizzy sweet powder with fruit flavor eaten as a small treat
A small piece of candy or chocolate
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Etymology
Junket originally named a sweet dish made from milk that turns into curds. It comes from Old French jonquette, probably from Latin juncus 'rush', because people once served the curds on rush leaves.