to blanch celery

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• blanch — [blanch, blänch] vt. [ME blanchen < OFr blanchir < blanc, white: see BLANK] 1. to make white; take color out of 2. to make pale 3. to bleach (endive, celery, etc.) by earthing up or covering so as to keep away light and improve the… …   English World dictionary

• blanch — blanch1 blancher, n. /blanch, blahnch/, v.t. 1. to whiten by removing color; bleach: Workers were blanching linen in the sun. 2. Cookery. a. to scald briefly and then drain, as peaches or almonds to facilitate removal of skins, or as rice or… …   Universalium

• blanch — /blæntʃ/ (say blanch), /blantʃ/ (say blahnch) verb (t) 1. to whiten by removing colour. 2. Horticulture to whiten or prevent from becoming green by excluding the light (a process applied to the stems or leaves of plants, such as celery, lettuce,… …  

• whiten — vb 1 Whiten, blanch, bleach, decolorize, etiolate can all mean to change from an original color to white or almost to white. To Whiten is to make white usually by the applica tion or addition of something from without {whiten shoes with pipe… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• whiten — /hwuyt n, wuyt n/, v.t., v.i. to make or become white. [1250 1300; ME whitenen; see WHITE, EN1] Syn. WHITEN, BLANCH, BLEACH mean to make or become white. To WHITEN implies giving a white color or appearance by putting a substance of some kind on… …   Universalium

• e|ti|o|late — «EE tee uh layt», verb, lat|ed, lat|ing. –v.t. to make (a plant) pale or white through loss of normal color, as from lack of sunlight; blanch: »to etiolate celery. –v.i. to grow pale or colorless from absence of the normal amount of chlorophyll… …   Useful english dictionary

• Dolma — is a family of stuffed vegetable dishes in the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions such as Russia, Middle East and the Caucasus and Central and South Asia. Perhaps the best known is the grape leaf dolma. Common… …   Wikipedia

• Territory band — Territory bands were dance bands mdash; circa 1920s–1960s mdash; that crisscrossed specific regions of the country.Gunther Schuller, Chapter 8: Territory Bands (pp. 770–805), The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930–1945 (The History of Jazz …   Wikipedia

• vegetable processing — Introduction       preparation of vegetables (vegetable) for use by humans as food.       Vegetables consist of a large group of plants consumed as food. Perishable when fresh but able to be preserved by a number of processing methods, they are… …   Universalium