savarin
[ sav-uh-rin ]
noun
a spongelike cake leavened with yeast, baked in a ring mold, and often soaked with a rum syrup.
Origin of savarin
11875–80; <French, named after Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (died 1826), French politician and gourmet
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How to use savarin in a sentence
The discovery of a new dish, said Brillat-savarin, is of greater importance to humanity than the discovery of a new planet.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreThwicket had left two minutes before, having learned that Gallivant was at the savarin.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York | Lemuel Ely QuiggBaron savarin, who wrote a treatise on the art of enjoying life, should have added a chapter on the happiness of contrast.
These are little gastronomic felicities which Brillat-savarin, otherwise so complete an author, overlooked in his book.
The Red Inn | Honore de BalzacDumas' soup for dinner; but for breakfast the unrivalled omelette of Brillat-savarin.
The Feasts of Autolycus | Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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