Italian: bagna alcolicaEnglish translation: soaking medium; soaking in liquor or alcohol 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | Italian term or phrase: | bagna alcolica | | English translation: | soaking medium; soaking in liquor or alcohol | | Entered by: | silviantonia |
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Cooking / Culinary / confectionery | | Italian term or phrase: bagna alcolica | | liqueur-like preparation used when making cakes. Sorry I don't have a context sentence. The customer makes flavourings etc. for professional pastry cooks and just asked for this isolated term. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseAlexandra Speirs: 7:21pm May 16, 2007: Cooking - Oops, I should have classified this as Cooking, not Food/dairy
silviantonia: 7:47pm May 16, 2007: My answer is "what to call it in English.' See added notes, please.
Alexandra Speirs: 9:17pm May 16, 2007: I know, it's a "soaking medium", trifle is an old family stand-by. Though it sounds a bit chemical, Google makes a few hits but mostly with beans!
silviantonia: 9:19pm May 16, 2007: Soaking medium is an excellent option. My preferred medium is usually very good cognac... although I use Cardenal Mendoza when I have it.
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| | soaking in liquor or alcohol | Explanation:
It really depends on what you mean... I use brandy or cognac, for example, in many things, even in my bread pudding, but I don't use it as a 'bagna' but just add it to the mix. I do soak fruit when making other things, which would be a bagna alcolica... so I might use soaking in cognac or rum for strawberries... And I use marsala wine for many things I make. We also have something called a panetela borracha, which is soaked (so soaked that the end you are soaked!).
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Note added at 27 mins (2007-05-16 19:46:33 GMT)
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Some people like to really soak the cake in the alcohol, then add the fruit on top.
www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/dessert/cakes/trifle.html -
Gather together the fruits and soak in alcohol as directed in the method before making the cake. ...
fashion-era.com/Christmas/christmas_food_cake_recipe.htm - 49k -
The purist would disagree, but you can omit the soaking of the cake with alcohol if you are serving the trifle to children or people who don't like alcohol. ...
www.joyofbaking.com/BlueberryTrifle.html - 37k |
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 silviantonia
United States
| Note from asker to answererThanks for the help. I finally opted for SOAKING MEDIUM. Despite our efforts the customer decided to use ALCOHOL SOLUTION which I don't really like -:(
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| soaking in liquor or alcohol
Explanation:
It really depends on what you mean... I use brandy or cognac, for example, in many things, even in my bread pudding, but I don't use it as a 'bagna' but just add it to the mix. I do soak fruit when making other things, which would be a bagna alcolica... so I might use soaking in cognac or rum for strawberries... And I use marsala wine for many things I make. We also have something called a panetela borracha, which is soaked (so soaked that the end you are soaked!).
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Note added at 27 mins (2007-05-16 19:46:33 GMT)
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Some people like to really soak the cake in the alcohol, then add the fruit on top.
www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/dessert/cakes/trifle.html -
Gather together the fruits and soak in alcohol as directed in the method before making the cake. ...
fashion-era.com/Christmas/christmas_food_cake_recipe.htm - 49k -
The purist would disagree, but you can omit the soaking of the cake with alcohol if you are serving the trifle to children or people who don't like alcohol. ...
www.joyofbaking.com/BlueberryTrifle.html - 37k
| silviantonia
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English, Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thanks for the help. I finally opted for SOAKING MEDIUM. Despite our efforts the customer decided to use ALCOHOL SOLUTION which I don't really like -:( |
| Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks, that's the kind of thing I mean. But we still don't really know what to call it in English!
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| steeped in alcohol
Explanation:
but not sure quite what to call the solution - none such sold as such in UK. Alcohol-based steeping liquid sounds rather uninteresting...
Linda Fripp Designs : Cake Images
Whilst our well matured rich fruit cake, steeped in brandy or other liqueur of ... cake is also sensational for those who prefer an alcohol free version. ...
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This product contains liquor and the alcohol content is one percent or less of ... Downey’s French Raspberry Liqueur cake is a moist, rich cake steeped with ...
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| Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 35
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