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Ingredients are the constituent parts of food. An apple pie contains ingredients such as flour, butter, apples, sugar, and cinnamon.
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| x Chili pepper |
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Larb | Singaporean cuisine |
Chili pepper (also known as, or spelled, chilli pepper, chilli, chili, and chile) is the fruit of the plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Botanically speaking, the fruit of capsicums are berries. Depending...
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| Sugo all'amatriciana | Incan | |||
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Cubeb (Piper cubeba), or tailed pepper, is a plant in genus Piper, cultivated for its fruit and essential oil. It is mostly grown in Java and Sumatra, hence sometimes called Java pepper. The fruits are gathered before they are ripe, and carefully...
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| x Turmeric |
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Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is native to tropical South Asia and needs temperatures between 20°C and 30°C, and a considerable amount of annual rainfall to thrive....
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| x Chives |
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Clapshot |
Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae, native to Europe, Asia and North America. They are referred to only in the plural, because they grow in clumps rather than as individual plants. Allium...
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| x Tarragon |
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Tarragon or dragon's-wort (Artemisia dracunculus L.) is a perennial herb in the family Asteraceae related to wormwood. Corresponding to its species name, a common term for the plant is "dragon herb." It is native to a wide area of the Northern...
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| x Buddha's hand |
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Buddha's Hand, Buddha's Hand citron, or Fingered citron (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylus) is a fragrant citron variety whose fruit is segmented into finger-like sections.
The citron grows on a shrub or small tree with long, irregular branches...
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| x Chayote |
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Taiwanese |
The chayote (Sechium edule), also known as sayote, tayota, choko, chocho, chow-chow, christophene, mirliton, and vegetable pear, is an edible plant that belongs to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae along with melons, cucumbers and squash.
The plant has...
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| x Blueberry |
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Blueberry pie |
Blueberries are flowering plants of the genus Vaccinium with dark-blue, -purple or black berries. Species in the section Cyanococcus are the most common fruits sold as "blueberries" and are mainly native to North America. They are usually erect but...
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| x Fennel |
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Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is a plant species in the genus Foeniculum (treated as the sole species in the genus by most botanists). It is a member of the blunden family Apiaceae (formerly the Umbelliferae). It is a hardy, perennial, umbelliferous...
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| x Cardoon |
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The cardoon (Cynara cardunculus), also called the artichoke thistle, cardone, cardoni, carduni or cardi, is a thistle-like plant which is member of the Aster family, Asteraceae; (or archaic: Daisy family, Compositae). It is a naturally occurring...
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| x Onion | Mee Goreng |
Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa. Allium cepa is also known as the "garden onion" or "bulb" onion. It is grown...
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| Gumbo | ||||
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| Knish | ||||
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| x Veal |
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Weißwurst |
Veal is the meat of a young cattle (calf). Though veal can be produced from a calf of either sex and any breed, most veal comes from male calves of dairy cattle breeds. Compared to beef, veal has a delicate taste and tender texture.
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| Bockwurst | ||||
| Gelbwurst | ||||
| Meatloaf | ||||
| x Blood sausage |
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Black pudding or blood pudding is a type of sausage made by cooking blood with a filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. It is also called blood sausage (first attested in 1868, perhaps influenced by German Blutwurst). Although ...
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| x Steak |
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A steak (from Old Norse steik, "roast") is a cut of meat. Most steaks are cut perpendicular to the muscle fibres, improving the perceived tenderness of the meat. In North America, steaks are typically served grilled, though they are also often pan...
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| x Sirloin steak |
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Bistek |
The sirloin steak is beef steak cut from the lower portion of the ribs, continuing off the tenderloin from which filet mignon is cut.
The sirloin is actually divided into several types of steak. The top sirloin is the most prized of these. The...
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| x Bacon |
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Eggs Benedict |
Bacon is a cut of meat taken from the sides, belly, or back of a pig, and then cured, smoked, or both. Meat from other animals, such as beef, lamb, chicken, goat, or turkey, may also be cut, cured, or otherwise prepared to resemble bacon, and may...
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| Bacon and egg pie | ||||
| Weißwurst | ||||
| Teewurst | ||||
| Cervelat | ||||
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| x Chicken |
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Curry chicken |
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago. Until this discovery, conventional wisdom held that the chicken was...
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| General Tso's chicken | ||||
| Gai Pad Khing | ||||
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| x Tomato |
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Minestrone | Italian |
The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum, syn. Lycopersicon lycopersicum & Lycopersicon esculentum) is a herbaceous, usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins potatoes, chili peppers, tobacco, eggplant and the...
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| Niçoise salad | American | |||
| Greek salad | Chilean | |||
| Aloo Tama | ||||
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| x Bean |
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Minestrone |
Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae (alternately Leguminosae) used for human food or animal feed.
The whole young pods of bean plants, if picked before the pods ripen and dry, can be tender enough to...
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| x Pasta |
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Minestrone | Italian |
Pasta (Italian for "dough") is a generic term for variants of noodles, food made from a dough of flour, water and/or eggs. The word can also denote dishes in which pasta products are the primary ingredient, served with sauce or seasonings.
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| Carbonara | ||||
| Pasta Puttanesca | ||||
| Pasta with pancetta | ||||
| x Broth |
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Minestrone |
Broth is a liquid in which bones, meat, fish, cereal grains, or vegetables have been simmered. Broth is used as a basis for other edible liquids such as soup, gravy, or sauce. It can be eaten alone or with garnish. If other ingredients are used,...
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| x Butternut squash |
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Butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata), also known in Australia as Butternut pumpkin, is a type of winter squash. It has a sweet, nutty taste that is similar to pumpkin. It has yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp. When ripe, it turns increasingly deep...
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| x Fruit |
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Trifle |
The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds, and the presence of seeds indicates that a structure is...
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| x Custard |
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Trifle |
Custard is a range of preparations based on milk and eggs. Most commonly, custard refers to a dessert or dessert sauce, but custard bases are also used for quiches and other savoury foods. As a dessert, it is made from a combination of milk or cream...
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| x Cream |
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Trifle |
Cream (including light whipping cream) is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top. In the industrial...
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| Creamed corn | ||||
| Ice cream | ||||
| x Sponge cake |
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Trifle |
Sponge cake is a cake based on flour (usually wheat flour), sugar, and eggs, sometimes leavened with baking powder, that derives its structure from an egg foam into which the other ingredients are folded. The sponge cake is thought to be one of the...
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| x Rice |
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Nasi goreng |
Rice is the seed of the monocot plant Oryza sativa, of the grass family (Poaceae). As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, the West Indies, East,...
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| Sushi | ||||
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| Baji | ||||
| Uttapam | ||||
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| x Culinary mustard |
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Deviled egg |
Mustard is a thick yellowish-brown paste with a sharp taste made from the ground seeds of a mustard plant (white or yellow mustard, Sinapis hirta; brown or Indian mustard, Brassica juncea; or black mustard, Brassica nigra). The ground mustard seeds...
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| x Ketchup |
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Ketchup (also spelled Catsup or Catchup), also known as tomato ketchup, tomato sauce, or red sauce is a condiment, usually made from tomatoes. The primary ingredients in a typical modern ketchup are tomato concentrate, corn syrup (or other sugar),...
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| x Worcestershire sauce |
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Worcestershire sauce (pronounced /ˈwʊstəˌʃɪər/) is a fermented liquid condiment first made at 68 Broad Street, Worcester by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins. The Lea and Perrins brand was made commercially in 1837....
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| x Sambal |
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Sambal is a condiment popular in South India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and Sri Lanka, as well as the Netherlands through Indonesian influence, and in Suriname. It is typically made from a variety of peppers, although...
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| x Lentil |
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Dal |
The lentil or daal or dal (Lens culinaris), considered a type of pulse, is a bushy annual plant of the legume family, grown for its lens-shaped seeds. It is about 15 inches (38 cm) tall and the seeds grow in pods, usually with two seeds in each.
The...
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| x Potato |
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Irish stew |
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species....
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| Pasty | ||||
| Shepherd's pie | ||||
| Aloo Tama | ||||
| Kreplach | ||||
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| x Lamb |
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Irish stew | Middle Eastern |
Lamb, hogget, and mutton are the meat of domestic sheep. The meat of an animal in its first year is lamb; that of an older sheep is hogget and later mutton.
Because of dramatically differing economic values of each type of animal (lamb being the...
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| Shepherd's pie | Welsh cuisine | |||
| Rogan Josh | ||||
| Roast lamb with laver sauce | ||||
| Cawl | ||||
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| x Pork |
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Cochinita pibil |
Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig (Sus domesticus). The word, pork, is often meant to denote specifically the fresh meat of the pig, but it can be used as an all-inclusive term, to include cured, smoked, or processed meats ...
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| Knackwurst | ||||
| Teewurst | ||||
| Saumagen | ||||
| Bockwurst | ||||
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| x Naan |
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Naan is a leavened, oven-baked flatbread. It is one of the most popular varieties of Indian breads and is particularly popular in northern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Originally, naan is a generic term for various flat-breads from different...
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| x Challah |
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Gefilte fish | Jewish cuisine |
Challah (also hallah plural: challot) (Hebrew: חלה) also known as khale (eastern Yiddish), barches (German and western Yiddish), berches (Swabian), barkis (Gothenburg), bergis (Stockholm), chałka (Polish) and kitke (South Africa), is a special...
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| x Sourdough |
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Sourdough is a dough containing a lactobacillus culture, usually in symbiotic combination with yeasts. It is one of two principal means of leavening in bread baking, along with the use of cultivated forms of yeast (Saccharomyces). It is of...
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| x Yeast |
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Bialy |
Yeasts are eukaryotic microorganisms classified in the kingdom Fungi, with about 1,500 species currently described; they dominate fungal diversity in the oceans. Most reproduce asexually by budding, although a few do so by binary fission. Yeasts are...
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| Ho-tteok | ||||
| x Baking powder |
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Baking powder is a dry chemical leavening agent used to increase the volume and lighten the texture of baked goods such as muffins, cakes, and cookies (biscuits). Baking powder works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into a batter or dough through an...
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| x Matzo |
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Gefilte fish |
Matza (also Matzah, Matzoh, or Matsah, Hebrew: מַצָּה, in Ashkenazi matzo or matzoh, and, in Yiddish, matze) is a cracker-like flatbread made of white plain flour and water. The dough is pricked in several places and not allowed to rise before or...
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| Matzah balls | ||||
| Matzo Pancake | ||||
| x Tortilla |
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Gordita |
In Mexico and Central America, a tortilla is a type of thin, unleavened flat bread, made from finely ground maize (often called "corn" in the United States). In Mexico, there are three colors of maize dough for making tortillas: white maize, yellow...
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| Burrito | ||||
| Taco | ||||
| Quesadilla | ||||
| Huevos rancheros | ||||
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| x Meat |
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Pasty |
Meat is animal flesh that is used as food. Most often, this means the skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also describe other edible tissues such as organs, livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys or lungs. The word meat is also used...
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| Vareniki | ||||
| Bigos | ||||
| x Flour |
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Pasty |
Flour is a powder made of cereal grains. It is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many civilizations, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout...
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| Quiche | ||||
| Pumpkin pie | ||||
| Apple pie | ||||
| Mince pie | ||||
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| x Milk |
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Quiche |
Dairy milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals (including monotremes). It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborn mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. The early lactation milk is...
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| Scrambled eggs | ||||
| Cajeta | ||||
| Kugelis | ||||
| Ho-tteok | ||||
| x Egg |
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Quiche |
An egg is a round or oval body laid by the female of any number of different species, consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo and its nutrient reserves. Most...
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| Scrambled eggs | ||||
| Eggs Benedict | ||||
| Niçoise salad | ||||
| Bacon and egg pie | ||||
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| x Butter |
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Quiche |
Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying. Butter consists of butterfat, water and milk...
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| Arroz a la valenciana | ||||
| x Ginger |
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Pumpkin pie |
Ginger is a spice which is used for cooking and is also consumed whole as a delicacy or medicine. It is the underground stem of the ginger plant, Zingiber officinale.
The ginger plant has a long history of cultivation, having originated in Asia and...
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| Gai Pad Khing | ||||
| Gelbwurst | ||||
| x Pumpkin |
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Pumpkin pie |
Pumpkin is a gourd-like squash of the genus Cucurbita and the family Cucurbitaceae (which also includes gourds). It is a common name of or can refer to cultivars of any one of the following species: Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita maxima,...
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| x Shortening |
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Pumpkin pie |
Shortening is a semisolid fat used in food preparation, especially baked goods, and is so called because it promotes a "short" or crumbly texture (as in shortbread).Shortening is basically just fat or lard from an animal or vegetable. The term ...
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| Apple pie | ||||
| Mince pie | ||||
| Bacon and egg pie | ||||
| Rhubarb pie | ||||
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| x Cinnamon |
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Pumpkin pie |
Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum, synonym C. zeylanicum) is a small evergreen tree 10–15 metres (32.8–49.2 feet) tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, and is native to Sri Lanka.
The leaves are ovate-oblong in shape, 7–18 cm (2.75–7.1 inches) long. The...
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| x Nutmeg |
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Pumpkin pie |
Nutmeg or Myristica fragrans is an evergreen tree indigenous to the Banda Islands in the Moluccas of Indonesia, or Spice Islands. Until the mid 19th century this was the world's only source. The nutmeg tree is important for two spices derived from...
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| Gelbwurst | ||||
| Stracciatella | ||||
| x Chocolate |
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Chocolate brownie |
Chocolate (pronounced /ˈtʃɒklət/ (help·info) or /-ˈələt/) comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Native to lowland, tropical South America, cacao has been cultivated for at least...
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| Rocky road | ||||
| Chocolate pudding | ||||
| Flourless chocolate cake | ||||
| German chocolate cake | ||||
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| x Fish |
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Sashimi |
A fish is any aquatic vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic (or cold-blooded), covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Fish are abundant in the sea and in fresh water, with species being...
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| Sushi | ||||
| Gefilte fish | ||||
| Fish and chips | ||||
| Sole meunière | ||||
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| x Ground beef |
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Hamburger |
Beef mince, ground beef or hamburger meat (in North America), or mince(d) meat (in the rest of the English speaking world) is a ground meat product, made of beef finely chopped by a meat grinder. It is used in many recipes including hamburgers and...
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| Cottage pie | ||||
| Gołąbki | ||||
| Mince and tatties | ||||
| Bridie | ||||
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| x Bread |
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Hamburger |
Bread is a staple food prepared by baking a dough of flour and water. It may be leavened or unleavened. Salt, fat and leavening agents such as yeast and baking soda are common ingredients, though bread may contain a range of other ingredients: milk,...
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| Bread and butter pudding | ||||
| Bánh mì | ||||
| Sandwich | ||||
| Panino | ||||
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| x Seaweed |
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Sushi |
Seaweed is a loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthic marine algae. The term includes some members of the red, brown and green algae. Seaweeds can also be classified by use (as food, medicine, fertilizer, industrial,...
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| x Apple |
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Apple pie |
The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family Rosaceae. It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. The tree is small and deciduous, reaching 3 to 12 metres (9.8 to 39 ft) tall, with a broad,...
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| Waldorf salad | ||||
| Apple crisp | ||||
| Apple dumpling | ||||
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| x Kimchi |
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Kimchi (pronounced /ˈkɪmtʃɪ/, Korean pronunciation: [kimtɕʰi]), also spelled gimchi, kimchee, or kim chee, is a traditional Korean pickled dish made of vegetables with varied seasonings. Its most common manifestation is the spicy baechu (cabbage)...
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