{"id":5553,"date":"2016-08-26T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utalk.com\/news\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2022-07-06T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:19:49","slug":"translating-the-bake-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/translating-the-bake-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Translating the Bake Off!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s Bake Off season, and that means it\u2019s time to be bamboozled with technical culinary terms, many of them in a foreign tongue. We’re intrigued by some of the weird and wonderful language that comes out of The Great British Bake Off<\/em> – no, we don\u2019t mean when bakers accidentally drop their cakes on the floor! – and we wanted to share our favourite baking-related vocabulary…<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biscuit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Coming from French, this literally translates as \u2018twice cooked\u2019, i.e. harder than a cake.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Chocolate<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Marmite<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Beware, it\u2019s a false friend: the French meaning is a large cooking pot, which actually features on the Marmite logo.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ganache<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\"IMG_4391\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

No prizes for guessing that this word comes from French too, but we\u2019d be genuinely impressed if you could tell us the literal meaning: a jaw. We\u2019re not sure what the connection is – can anyone tell us?<\/span>
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornetto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When you\u2019re in Italy and in the mood for a delicious gelato, make sure not to slip into <\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/i>O Sole Mio<\/span><\/i> mode and order a cornetto, as this will actually get you a croissant.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"croissant\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hors d’oeuvre<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We all know this phrase, but did you know it\u2019s so called because it literally translates to \u2018outside of the work\u2019 – in other words, an extra to the meal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chef<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You may have heard this word in German, but did you know that there it means a \u2018boss\u2019, not a \u2018cook\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Asian<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cuisine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Confusingly, in French this can mean both \u2018cooking\u2019 and \u2018kitchen\u2019: you make your cuisine in the cuisine.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cr\u00e8me anglaise<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Contestants are forever whipping up a quick cr<\/span>\u00e8<\/span>me anglaise in the Bake Off<\/em> and it sounds ever so grand, but actually it just means custard – sorry for the anti-climax. To add insult to injury, anglaise (or English) is used in French to indicate a particularly plain style. Boo!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Orange<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cr\u00e8me p\u00e2tissi\u00e8re<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Another Bake Off<\/em> classic, sounding even more chic, but I\u2019m afraid this also just means custard (albeit a thicker version of the anglaise).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trifle<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Far and away my favourite word in Italian, which bizarrely translates our beloved national pudding into \u2018la zuppa inglese\u2019 – English soup.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Trifle<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bain-marie<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

– It’s a little off-putting to find that this French term comes from the Latin meaning \u2018Mary\u2019s bath\u2019 – and we don’t mean Mary Berry! It’s actually named after the alchemist <\/span>Maria Prophetissima<\/span><\/i>, who invented it<\/span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us know your favourite linguistically interesting baking terms. Meanwhile… Baaake!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Bake Off season, and that means it\u2019s time to be bamboozled with technical culinary terms, many of them in a foreign tongue. We’re intrigued by some of the weird and wonderful language that comes out of The Great British Bake Off – no, we don\u2019t mean when bakers accidentally drop their cakes on the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,3,794],"tags":[1602,1447,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8888,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions\/8888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}