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shrimp Newburg

shrimp Newburg

7.7
A dish of shrimp cooked in a rich creamy sauce often served in a ring of rice
  • noun
  • /ʃrɪmp ˈnjuːbɜːrɡ/
  • US
translation icon : camarones Newburg
  • At the restaurant, I ordered shrimp Newburg, which was rich and creamy with a hint of sherry.

Examples

  • I prepared a delicious shrimp Newburg for dinner, served over a bed of fluffy rice.

  • For the holiday gathering, we decided to make shrimp Newburg as the centerpiece of our meal.

  • Or makes a better shrimp Newburg, hmm?

    Shaft's Big Score! (1972)

Surface Forms

shrimp Newburg singular
shrimp Newburgs plural

Morphology

shrimp + Newburg

The meaning is directly compositional: 'shrimp' names the main ingredient and 'Newburg' denotes a rich cream sauce, so a learner who knows both words can infer it is shrimp cooked in Newburg sauce. This ingredient + sauce naming pattern is common in culinary language (and cross-linguistically familiar), making the phrase readily understandable to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Shrimp Newburg comes from an old New York seafood recipe called 'Lobster Newberg' made long ago in a city restaurant. One popular story says a man named Ben Wenberg asked for lobster in a rich cream-and-wine sauce, and cooks later used that same sauce with shrimp, so shrimp Newburg means 'shrimp in a rich, creamy Newburg sauce'.