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🦪 A sea mollusk 🥩 A thin meat slice 🍲 To bake with sauce
to escallop

to escallop

9.4
To bake food in a creamy sauce with a breadcrumb topping
  • verb
  • /ɪˈskæl.əp/
  • Archaic
translation icon : gratinado
  • The chef escalloped the vegetables, adding a golden breadcrumb topping before baking.

Examples

  • My grandmother loves to escallop potatoes with a creamy sauce and breadcrumbs.

  • We decided to escallop some fish with a creamy dill sauce.

  • My grandmother loves to escallop potatoes for Sunday dinners.

  • We will escallop the potatoes for dinner.

  • She escalloped the vegetables perfectly.

  • The chef prepared to escallop some scallops in a rich cheese sauce.

  • We decided to escallop chicken with herbs and a crunchy topping for tonight's meal.

Synonyms

to scallop
vsto escallop
  • US
3 6.7

To bake food in a sauce with breadcrumbs on top

is the same meaning but differs as an alternate spelling

Surface Forms

escallop infinitive
escalloped past
escalloped past participle
escalloping present participle
escallops third person singular

Etymology

Escallop as a verb comes from the same cooking idea of putting food into a small dish or shell to bake. To escallop something is to bake it 'in sauce' with a crumb top, which is why the word means that method of cooking.