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scalloping

scalloping

5.6
A way of cooking thin potato slices baked in cream in a shallow dish
  • noun
  • /ˈskæləpɪŋ/
  • Specialized
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  • Shout out to rets mom Diane, I'm sure I would love your scalloped potatoes.

Examples

  • A little BBQ, Had some ribs, had some like scalloped potatoes, baked beans.

  • The stuff in chicken and scalloped potatoes made by Ling's mom and Christy's mom is on Rhett side.

  • For dinner, she prepared creamy scalloping potatoes with cheese and herbs.

  • He baked scalloping potatoes until they were golden and bubbly on top.

  • At the potluck, I brought my famous scalloping potatoes that everyone loves.

Surface Forms

scalloping singular
scallopings plural

Morphology

scalloping = scallop (opaque) = scallop + ing

The word is built from scallop + -ing, but the cooking sense is specialized and not readily predictable from the base form for most learners.

Etymology

Scalloping comes from the shellfish scallop, because cooks once baked scallops in a shallow dish and later used the same name for similar dishes like thin potatoes in cream. So scalloping now means cooking food in a shallow dish with sauce.