noix de saint jacques

English translation: shelled scallops

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French term or phrase:	noix de saint jacques
English translation:	shelled scallops
Entered by:	Philip Taylor

18:28 Feb 15, 2006

French to English translations [PRO]
Cooking / Culinary

French term or phrase: noix de saint jacques

From a French menu.
What does the 'noix' mean here, please?

Noix de saint jacques aux ravioles d’aubergines, petits légumes, jus émulsionné à la truffe.

Philip Taylor KudoZ activity Questions: 536 (none open) (4 without valid answers) (11 closed without grading) Answers: 256
Local time: 00:57

scallops

Explanation:
Shelled scallops.

Selected response from:

sujata
Local time: 05:27

Grading comment

Many thanks for all the answers and explanations. For my own purposes, I think 'shelled scallops' is best, although it may be more compicated than that, as explained below.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +10

scallops

sujata

3 +6

scallop

Emma Grubb

4 +2

nut

MurielP (X)

3 +1

comment

Bourth (X)

the fleshy part of the scallop

CMJ_Trans (X)

Answers

2 mins confidence:

the fleshy part of the scallop

Explanation:
Scallop Printout. Scallops are bivalves; they have two hard shells and a soft body.
They move by quickly opening and closing their shells, squirting out ...
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ invertebrates/bivalve/Scallopprintout.shtml

CMJ_Trans (X)
Local time: 01:57
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 59

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +10

noix (de saint jacques)

scallops

Explanation:
Shelled scallops.

sujata
Local time: 05:27
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Many thanks for all the answers and explanations. For my own purposes, I think 'shelled scallops' is best, although it may be more compicated than that, as explained below.

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

noix (de saint jacques) scallop

Explanation:
How about simply "Scallops with ..."?

Emma Grubb
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:57
Native speaker of:

English

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

noix (de saint jacques) nut

Explanation:
The edible portion of the scallop is the white muscle that opens and closes the two shells and is called the “nut”.
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=105

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However, I have never seen that term used in english receipes... this means only the white muscle is used and not the coral (pink) which is also edible.

MurielP (X)
Local time: 00:57
Native speaker of:

French,

English
PRO pts in category: 8

15 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

noix (de saint jacques) comment

Explanation:
I think the translation will depend on where the menu is being presented.

Were it in an English-speaking country, just "scallops" would probably be enough since the roe tends not to be eaten there.

Not specifying in the menu of a French restaurant in France that it is just the adductor muscle might put off people who have previously been put off at finding the roe served to them.

"The A-Z of French Food" defines "noix" as "the white flesh of the scallop". Maybe "scallops (white meat only)" would be in order (assuming that "meat" is acceptable for scallops; "flesh" sounds awful on a menu, to my ears), or "scallops (without roe)".

Bourth (X)
Local time: 01:57
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 88

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