Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small ceramic bowl used for baking and serving.
- noun A dish made with cheese, eggs, and bread crumbs or unsweetened puff pastry, baked and served in such a bowl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Toasted cheese and bread, or toast and cheese; Welsh rabbit; also, bread-crumb baked in a pie-pan with a farce of cheese, eggs, and other ingredients.
- noun The case or mold in which a ramekin is baked and served: also
ramekin-mold or -case.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
ramequin .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cooking a small
glass orearthenware dish , often white and circular, in which food is baked and served
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes
- noun a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Its good to freeze individual portions in ramekin dishes for days when you don’t want to cook.
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The cauliflower sheep playing between the broccoli bushes are glad, because the shepherd’s pie in the small ramekin is actually vegetarian.
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The cauliflower sheep playing between the broccoli bushes are glad, because the shepherd’s pie in the small ramekin is actually vegetarian. (though … it contains cauliflower … how cruel!)
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Pictured above are Ham and Egg Ramekins with the "ramekin" being a slice of bread.
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Try this: put a round of goat cheese in a ramekin, sprinkle honey and chopped walnuts on top and place in oven at 350F until honey and cheese are both soft.
Anna Brones: 20 Unusual Uses for Honey Anna Brones 2011
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Try this: put a round of goat cheese in a ramekin, sprinkle honey and chopped walnuts on top and place in oven at 350F until honey and cheese are both soft.
Anna Brones: 20 Unusual Uses for Honey Anna Brones 2011
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Divide the fish between 4 ramekin dishes (about 4 inches diameter) and top with the mashed potato.
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Try this: put a round of goat cheese in a ramekin, sprinkle honey and chopped walnuts on top and place in oven at 350F until honey and cheese are both soft.
Anna Brones: 20 Unusual Uses for Honey Anna Brones 2011
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Jan 6th, 2010 at 11: 30 am magic_wookie: meh, hugely disappointing. ordered the veg pork ramen to go (last time i order noodles to go … way too much packaging!). completely void of vegetables, unless you count the tiny ramekin of koktogi (radish kimchi). and completely void of flavor. plus there were only 3 dried out slices of pork and half a yolkless egg. wtf.
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Try this: put a round of goat cheese in a ramekin, sprinkle honey and chopped walnuts on top and place in oven at 350F until honey and cheese are both soft.
Anna Brones: 20 Unusual Uses for Honey Anna Brones 2011
fbharjo commented on the word ramekin
only for creamy dishes
February 19, 2007
arby commented on the word ramekin
mmmm, creamy
July 19, 2007