Glossary

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Heart - The center of the total personality with reference to feeling, or emotion in reality

or *fundamentally, (2) a structure in an invertebrate animal, meaning lacking in strength

or vitality, lacking a spinal column, characterless.

*Fundamentally --in a way that affects the basis or essentials, being an

original or primary source

Butter - A solid emulsion of fat globules, air and water, any of various *fatty oils

remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperature

*fatty – having too much flesh

Margarine - A fatty solid *substitute consisting of a blend of hydrogenated vegetable

oils mixed with emulsifiers, vitamins, color matter and other ingredients

*Substitute – One that takes the place of another, a replacement. To replace

(one or more elements or radicals in a compound by other elements or

radicals)

Beef Bouillon – A clear seasoned broth made by simmering *Beef in water

*Beef- a dressed * *carcass of a beef animal, (1) an Ox, cow or bull in a full

grown or nearly full grown state, especially: a steer or cow fattened for food

(2) *carcass – the remains from which the substance or character is gone (3)

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slang; complaint

Catsup - A seasoned “pureed condiment”, usually made from tomatoes

*pureed condiment…a cooked vegetable or fruit that has been put through a

blender used to give

Special flavor (distinctive taste, yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic

of a given thing, Incapable of being realized or defined, cannot be perceived

by the senses.

Garlic - a European allium (Allium Sativum) widely cultivated for its *pungent compound

bulbs

* P un ge nt - -- ca us ti c, bi ti ng , o r sh a r p ly ex pr e ss iv e ” causing a sharp and irritating sensation,

especially ACRID, having a stiff and sharp point, acrid meaning sharp and

harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste, deeply and violently bitter.

Tenderloin - known as an eye fillet is cut from the loin of beef; as with all quadrupeds,

the tenderloin refers to the psoas major muscle. This muscle does very little work, so

it is the most tender part of the beef.

A city district *notorious for vice, graft and corruption in New York City.

*notorious - known widely and usually unfavorable, “infamous”

Salt - a colorless or white crystalline solid chiefly *sodium chloride, used extensively in

ground or granulated form

*sodium Chloride---Sometimes used as a cheap and safe desiccant (“a

hygroscopic substance that sustains a state of dryness in its local vicinity in a

moderately well-sealed container

Mushrooms - an enlarged *complex aboveground fleshy fruiting body of a fungus,

fungus being a parasitic spore producing organism.

*Complex- A group of repressed desires and memories that exerts a

dominating influence upon the personality (2) an exaggerated reaction to or

preoccupation with a subject or situation

Onion - .a plant having an edible pungent bulb, consisting of *concentric layers of white

leaf bases with a pungent odor and taste”

*concentric – having a common center (a political group or a set of policies

representing a moderate view between those of the right and the left

White Flour - a powder, either fine or *coarse prepared by sifting and grinding

*coarse - not precise or detailed with respect to adjustment or discrimination;

crude or unrefined in taste, manners or language, harsh, raucous or rough in

tone simplicity or

Sour Cream - cream *soured by the action of lactic acid bacteria produced which is a

hydgroscopic organic acid in carbohydrate matter by bacterial fermentation.

*soured- characteristic of something fermented: distasteful or disagreeable,

unpleasant, below standard; harsh in spirit or temper, having excessive

acidity,

Noodle - a *stupid person, a simpleton

*stupid- slow of mind, given to unintelligent decisions or acts, dulled in

feeling or sensation, lacking a point, marked by or resulting from unreasoned

thinking or acting, senseless

Poppy Seed -used as an *ingredient or topping

*Ingredient - something that enters into a compound or is a component part

of any combination or mixture

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Black Pepper - a hot, *sharp condiment

*sharp- briskly or bitingly cold, keen in attention to one’s own

interest sometimes to the point of being unethical, capable of acting

or reacting strongly; especially caustic, inclined to or marked by

irritability or anger

Additional recurring common words definitions;

Compound: To combine so as to form a whole consisting of two or more substances,

ingredients, elements or parts.

Component: “a *constituent part” (*one who authorizes another to act as agent, an

essential part)

Condiment: something used to impart a particular *flavor, often *pungent

Element, Component, Constituent, Ingredient mean one of the parts of a compound or

complex whole

Element applies to any such part and often connotes irreducible simplicity. Component

and Constituent may designate any of the substances (whether elements or compounds)

or the qualities that enter into the makeup of a complex product; Component stresses its

and separate entity or distinguishable character. Constituent stresses its essential and

formative character<Ingredient applies to any of the substances which when combined

form a particular mixture.

Flavor: the quality of something that affects the sense of taste.

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