sapa
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A thick sweet syrup made by boiling grape juice
- noun
- /ˈsɑːpə/
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sapa
- You can make sapa at home by slowly boiling grape juice until it thickens.
Examples
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The chef drizzled sapa over the roasted pears to enhance their flavor.
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Traditional Italian cakes are sometimes flavored with sapa for a rich, sweet taste.
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I added some sapa to the dessert.
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Have you ever tried sapa in your pasta?
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Traditional Italian desserts are often enriched with sapa for added sweetness.
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The recipe called for sapa to give the dish a delicious, syrupy flavor.
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After simmering grape juice, the chef poured the thickened sapa over the fresh fruit.
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Etymology
Sapa comes from Latin sapa, which meant 'boiled grape juice' and became the Italian name for a thick, sweet syrup. A helpful way to remember it is to think of tree 'sap' — a sticky juice — because sapa is a thick, sweet juice used to flavor cakes and fruit.