nesselrode pudding
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She began with caviar, sprinted through a cup of chicken gumbo, dallied for a brief while with a delectable brook trout; consorted with a tenderloin and certain congenial vegetables, rallied around a punch frappée, hot-footed with a canvasback duck, loped along arm in arm with an alligator pear salad, began to show signs of distress in company with a Nesselrode pudding and fancy cakes, and was beaten out in the final lap by a bottle of champagne, the demi-tasse coming along too late to give her even a small percentage of the gate receipts."
- "It was thanks to her [Fannie Farmer] that since the cradle dined on Nesselrode pudding, charlotte Russe, shrimp Newburg, curried chicken and poached vegetables with hollandaise sauce."
- "It is doubtful that a hovel would be the setting for a dinner that took place on May 2, 1941, when the Knopfs' guest was the violinist Jascha Heifetz. They served soft-shell crabs with a 1928 Chateau Haut-Brion Blanc, broiled young turkey, sweet potatoes and hearts of palm salad with an 1870 Chateau Margaux, a green salad with Monterey Jack cheese (then virtually unknown in the East) and Nesselrode pudding followed by Cognac."
- "[T]he team of girls […] would now turn the kitchen into their own domain as they manufactured the asparagus rolls and the mushroom vol-au-vents and the tiny cheese beignets and the iced finger of orange cake, and the Nesselrode pudding."
- "Italy sends us many queer things besides macaroni and olives and rare old cheeses. One of those that few persons are familiar with is the Italian chestnut, which comes by the hundred bags to make the thousands of nesselrode puddings and other achievements of our imported chefs that help to give the great American Nation its reputation for dyspepsia."
- "Nesselrode pie is an American adaptation of nesselrode pudding, which was named for a Russian statesman of the last century, Count Karl Robert Nesselrode, for whom it may have been created or of which he may have been particularly fond."