Nesselrode
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 a rich frozen pudding made of chopped chestnuts and maraschino cherries and candied fruits and liqueur or rum wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 Designating a type of cream, pie, or pudding, constituting an iced dessert made of chestnuts and cream, and typically flavoured with rum.
"[T]he team of girls […] would now turn the kitchen into their own domain as they manufactured the asparagus rolls and the mushroom vol-au-vents and the tiny cheese beignets and the iced finger of orange cake, and the Nesselrode pudding."
Example
More examples"[T]he team of girls […] would now turn the kitchen into their own domain as they manufactured the asparagus rolls and the mushroom vol-au-vents and the tiny cheese beignets and the iced finger of orange cake, and the Nesselrode pudding."
Etymology
From the name of Karl Nesselrode (1780–1862), a Russian statesman for whom the dish was said to have been invented by a French chef.