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/æntʃˈoʊvi/ /ˈæntʃˌoʊvi/ Listen

Anchovy

noun

Tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces.

Small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide.

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"Anchovy" Quotes from Famous Books

... one-third inch slices, trim off crust and cut slices in crescents or triangles—then saute a golden brown in butter. Spread with Anchovy paste or with French mustard, then arrange flaked smoked sturgeon over canapes. Sprinkle thickly with finely chopped olives and pimentos. Garnish each with a rolled fillet of Anchovy. Dispose each canape on a bread and butter plate ...

— Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners - A Book of Recipes • Elizabeth O. Hiller

... produce materials so fine, that no art or elaboration can improve them. They are best when they are cooked quite plainly, and this is the reason why simplicity is the key-note of English cookery. A fine joint of mutton roasted to a turn, a plain fried sole with anchovy butter a broiled chop or steak or kidney, fowls or game cooked English fashion, potatoes baked in their skins and eaten with butter and salt, a rasher of Wiltshire bacon and a new-laid egg, where will you beat these? I will go so ...

— The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: - Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes • Mrs. W. G. Waters

... variant of Rum Tum Tiddy. Make your Rum Tum Tiddy, but before finishing up with the beaten egg, stir in 2 heaping tablespoons of anchovy paste and prepare the buttered toast by laying on slices ...

— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown

... breakfast to tell him that there is too much ammonia in the bacon; and another one protest at the amount of glucose in the olive oil; and another that there is too high a percentage of nitrogen in the anchovy. A man of distorted imagination might think this tasting of chemicals in the food a sort of nemesis of fate upon the members. But that would be very foolish, for in every case the head waiter, who is the chief of the Chinese philosophers mentioned above, says that he'll see to it immediately and ...

— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock

Words linked to "Anchovy" : Engraulidae, soft-finned fish, family Engraulidae, anchovy dressing, malacopterygian, anchovy butter, Engraulis encrasicholus, fish