Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A smooth chewy candy made with sugar, butter, cream or milk, and flavoring.
- noun Burnt sugar, used for coloring and sweetening foods.
- noun A moderate yellow brown.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In candy- and cheese-making, to become burned and browned: said of the sugar dissolved in milk or syrups under the influence of heat; caramelize. See
caramel , n. - noun Anhydrous or burnt sugar, a product of the action of heat upon sugar.
- noun A sweet, variously composed and flavored, but generally consisting of chocolate, sugar, and butter, and dark-colored.
- noun Sometimes spelled
caromel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.
- noun A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A smooth, chewy, sticky
confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugarspolymerize and become sticky. - noun A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
- noun A
yellow -brown color .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk
- adjective having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown
- noun burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food
- noun a medium to dark tan color
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For the cake, apples are cooked in caramel on the stovetop until they are just tender.
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For the cake, apples are cooked in caramel on the stovetop until they are just tender.
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Guess might make them in caramel too, which could be a really nice score!
Linda Grasso: Bored With Your Closet? Do Like the French Linda Grasso 2010
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The milk caramel is made with milk, sugar and glucose, and is flavored with vanilla (there is also a little bit of baking soda “as an acidity control agent”).
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For the cake, apples are cooked in caramel on the stovetop until they are just tender.
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By the time I'm off the phone the caramel is roughly the texture of dried carpet glue but I whip in half a litre of heated full-fat milk and 250ml of double cream.
Cooking up holiday memories Tim Hayward 2010
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This creme caramel is best served chilled, and while it can be eaten at room temperature, it is best to give it a few hours in the fridge to firm up a little further before serving.
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Underneath the cookie layer, there is a thin caramel layer that adds a lot of moisture and flavor to the cake, with notes of both caramel, cinnamon and browned butter.
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The internal dialog was like: Dude, caramels, whoa, hard, I can chunk them though, that's right, mix in caramel chunks with the pie, it'll be the bomb and stuff.
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The internal dialog was like: Dude, caramels, whoa, hard, I can chunk them though, that's right, mix in caramel chunks with the pie, it'll be the bomb and stuff.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
brtom commented on the word caramel
Our great day, she said. Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Sweet name too: caramel.
Joyce, Ulysses, 8
January 3, 2007
pterodactyl commented on the word caramel
See this map for American pronunciation.
April 10, 2008
uselessness commented on the word caramel
The American Heritage audio pronunciation is unlike any I've heard before. I've heard "CAR mull" and "CARE a mell" but never "CAR a mull."
December 5, 2009
reesetee commented on the word caramel
I've never heard that pronunciation either. A bit odd to my ear.
December 5, 2009
madmouth commented on the word caramel
I've heard "car mull" more often than "car a mull"
December 5, 2009
dontcry commented on the word caramel
"car a mull" is straight out.
December 5, 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word caramel
I was raised saying "car-mull", but at some point, I made a conscious decision to switch over to "care-a-mull". I figured, hey, if both pronunciations are acceptible, I may as well use the one I like better.
February 22, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word caramel
I heard both, but I always suspected they were two different things.
February 22, 2011
bilby commented on the word caramel
More like CA-re-mell for me, middle vowel is schwaish.
February 22, 2011
yarb commented on the word caramel
Ditto Bilby. "Car-mull" is ludicrous.
February 22, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word caramel
What about licorice? Do you say lick-oh-rice?
February 22, 2011
yarb commented on the word caramel
No, I say "liquorish". "Lick-o-riss" would be how the queen says it.
February 22, 2011
dontcry commented on the word caramel
Which queen?
February 22, 2011
yarb commented on the word caramel
Queen Mab.
February 22, 2011
dontcry commented on the word caramel
Love her.
February 22, 2011
yarb commented on the word caramel
"...she gallops night by night / through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love."
February 23, 2011
dontcry commented on the word caramel
She does indeed, in her chariot of empty hazelnut!
February 23, 2011
bilby commented on the word caramel
Uffa, someone's dropped a hazelnut on the caramel page! This could get sticky.
February 23, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word caramel
I've actually had licorice-flavored caramels. Or maybe they were caramel-flavored licorices. Regardless, they were much more enjoyable than Salzige Heringe licorice.
Salzige Heringe....
*shudders*
February 23, 2011
reesetee commented on the word caramel
Blecch.
February 23, 2011
Logophile77 commented on the word caramel
I say care a mel (mel as in melon)... Sue me t(- n -)t
December 18, 2017