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fumet
[fyoo-mit]
noun
a stock made by simmering fish, chicken, game, etc., in water, wine, or in both, often boiled down to concentrate the flavor and used as a flavoring.
fumet
1/ ːˈɛ /
noun
a strong-flavoured liquor from cooking fish, meat, or game: used to flavour sauces
fumet
2/ ˈːə /
noun
archaic(often plural) the dropping of a deer
Word History and Origins
Origin of fumet1
Word History and Origins
Origin of fumet1
Origin of fumet2
Example Sentences
She fills the house with the aroma of fragrant shrimp-shell fumet.
A verdant fish fumet for Manila clams starts with simmered fish bones.
I used it again to stir the smooth yellow aioli into the fumet, and again to taste the garlic-ridden aioli on its own.
But the body and balance of the fumet were so right that it became the point of the dish; the shellfish were mere pretext.
When the bourride arrived, I used the tablespoon to drink the shellfish fumet that a server had ladled from a copper sauté pan over a fillet of black sea bass in a soup bowl.
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