🍖 Rich sauce ✨ Shiny surface 🍒 Sugared fruit 🍯 To coat with syrup

to glace

8.4

To coat food in a glossy sugar syrup or to boil a liquid until it becomes thick and shiny

verb
/ɡleɪs/

Specialized

: glasear

He learned how to glace carrots to enhance their flavor and add a glossy finish.

Examples

To make the dessert more appealing, she decided to glace the top with a sugary syrup.
After simmering the sauce for an hour, it began to glace and thicken to the perfect consistency.
'Hey, shampoodle, glace it up.'

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Synonyms

to glaze

vsto glace

33 4.2

To cover a surface with a smooth shiny liquid that dries hard, for example on food or pottery

also includes coating by thick syrup made by reducing liquids

to gloss

vsto glace

1 4.0

To make a surface smooth and shiny by rubbing or polishing

involves applying a shiny sugary coating or reduced syrup finish

to candy

vsto glace

1 7.4

To coat fruit or nuts in sugar so they become sweet and last longer

is more about syrupy shiny coating and reduced liquid finishes

to sugarcoat

vsto glace

1 4.4

Cover food with a sweet sugar layer

can mean coating with syrup or reduced liquids as well

to glass

vsto glace

1 8.1

To give a smooth shiny surface by adding a glossy coat

refers specifically to sweet edible coatings or syrup reductions

Compounds

demi-glace

7.7

A rich brown sauce cooks make by boiling meat broth until it is thick, often served with meat like steak

How Glossy

to glace

Specialized

8.4

to coat

105 2.8

Surface Forms

glace infinitive

glaced past

glaced past participle

glacing present participle

glaces third person singular

Etymology

The verb glace comes from French and Latin glacies 'ice'. To glace food is to give it an ice-like, shiny coating by glazing or reducing a sauce, so the origin explains the modern action.