abgeflammt

English translation: singed

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German term or phrase:	abgeflammt
English translation:	singed
Entered by:	Heather Starastin

18:48 Jun 30, 2003

German to English translations [PRO]
/ Cookery

German term or phrase: abgeflammt

From a recipe for roast pheasant. Among the ingredients are "2 gut abgehangene Fasane, gerupft, ausgenommen, gesäubert und abgeflammt".

Heather Starastin KudoZ activity Questions: 235 (none open) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 107 Canada
Local time: 23:19

singed

Explanation:
You singe the birds to get the feathers bits off.

After plucking, the bird was singed with an open flame to burn off the ... Pheasants
were legal game but they were scarce; quail and grouse were scarce, too, and ...
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/6380/ate.html -

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Note added at 2003-06-30 19:13:32 (GMT)
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.. With such small birds, start with the dry method and move to the wet if you need to ... After plucking, you may need to singe the bird over a gas flame to burn off ...
www.ochef.com/127.htm - 23k

Wild Side of the Menu -- No. 1, Care and Cookery
... off. Repeat if needed. Some people prefer to singe birds. However,
the bird has a nicer appearance if paraffin is used. Pinfeathers ...
www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/yf/foods/he124w.htm

.. Singe the carcass over an open flame to remove pin feathers. Cook white meat birds until well done but cook red meat birds such as duck only to rare. ...
www.gulfspecimen.org/cookbook/birdsprep.htm - 8k

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(you can increase my confidence level a notch).

Selected response from:

writeaway

Grading comment

Golly, how brutal :-) I think this is it; "flamed" may be OK too, but somehow it puts me in mind of "flambéed", which isn't appropriate here. Thanks muchly ;-)
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Summary of answers provided

3 +4

singed

writeaway

5 +1

flamed

Nicholas Hogg

flamed

Nicholas Hogg

Answers

12 mins confidence:

flamed

Explanation:
this sounds like using a lighted match or gas flame to burn out the feathers' remains after plucking. I am not sure the word is right though

Nicholas Hogg
Georgia
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 76

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

flamed

Explanation:
Yes it is. It returned many hits

Reference: http://italianfood.about.com/library/rec/blr0623.htm

Nicholas Hogg
Georgia
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 76

15 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

singed

writeaway
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 1179

Grading comment

Golly, how brutal :-) I think this is it; "flamed" may be OK too, but somehow it puts me in mind of "flambéed", which isn't appropriate here. Thanks muchly ;-)

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