fond
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The browned bits and juices left in a pan after cooking meat used to make sauces
- noun
- /fɒnd/
- Specialized
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fondo
- To make the sauce, we deglazed the pan, scraping up the delicious fond left from the steak.
Examples
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All right, I'm starting with the white asparagus fond with revigote style sauce.
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Its taste was darkly thrilling, with great bass tones that only the vast and careful reduction of the fond can give.
Fiction book (2001) -
All archival material quoted in this essay is from the Phyllis Webb fonds at Library and Archives Canada, 1983 accession.
Academic text (2013) -
The chef used the flavorful fond from the roasted chicken to prepare a rich gravy.
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The fond at the bottom of the pan added depth to the soup and enhanced its overall flavor.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fond as a cooking word comes from French fond meaning 'bottom' and from Latin fundus 'bottom', so the fond is the tasty browned bits and juices left at the bottom of a pan that you use to make a sauce.