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Discover LudwigThe word "macerate" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in culinary contexts to describe the process of soaking food, especially fruit, in liquid to soften it or infuse it with flavor. Example: "To enhance the flavor of the strawberries, let them macerate in sugar for at least an hour." Alternatives include "soak" or "soften."
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Add the brandy and set aside to macerate while you prepare the bread.
It is probably not a route to great wine: the traditional way of making rosé involves allowing red grapeskins to macerate in the wine for a short while.
The word is derived from the Latin macerare, meaning "to macerate".
Leave the dates and oranges to macerate for a couple of hours before you are ready to serve, as the juice from the oranges mingles with the sticky sweetness of the dates, which is one of the most delicious things on earth.
Pour in the caster sugar, combine and allow to macerate for 20 minutes.
A sampling of Chapman's correspondence from the past two months reveals the following usages: "pretermit," "fustigation," "macerate," "ablated," "accretive," "remora," "phlebotomizing," "gasconade".
Set aside to macerate.
2. While root vegetables are cooking, make the vinaigrette: macerate the shallot in the malt vinegar with a pinch of salt for 30 minutes.
You want the berries to break down a little and release their nectar, which softer berries will happily do if you macerate them in a little sugar.
Or, if you are not a baker, macerate some cherries, pitted or not, in lightly sweetened vodka or brandy to embellish old-fashioneds and manhattans.
Now if you will excuse me, I'm about to go macerate some soybeans.
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