ganache
noun
- type of sauce or edible glaze
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈnæʃ/ / /ɡəˈnɑːʃ/
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French ganache, from Italian ganascia (“jaw”), ultimately from Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos) (see gnatho-).
- A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.
“The centers of truffles are typically a ganache, which is most often simply a mixture of chocolate and cream. The recipes will direct you to chop the chocolate finely—do not overlook this step!”
“She scoops a grassy, barely sweet green-tea sorbet onto white chocolate ganache, and garnishes it with coin-size meringues that break easily, then strings syrupy, candied yuzu zest across it all.”
- A kind of surcoat with short cap sleeves.
“M. Viollet-le-Duc says the ganache, which he considers a beautiful and simple garment, disappeared at the end of the fourteenth century. M. Quicherat makes brief mention of it as a surcoat without sleeves or girdle , and neither ...”
“, The Medieval Wedding Planner, Lyle MacPherson Male clothing was worn in layers of a tunic, cote, or cotte with a surcoat over a linen shirt. […] a long sleeveless tunic. When sleeves (and sometimes a hood) were added, the cyclas became a ganache (a cap-sleeved surcoat, usually shown with hood of matching color) or a gardcorps (a long, generous-sleeved travelling robe).”
- A fool
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from French ganache, from Italian ganascia (“jaw”), ultimately from Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos) (see gnatho-).
- To coat with ganache.
“to ganache the sides of a cake”