bavaroises

Noun

bavaroise (plural bavaroises)

1. A drink of sweetened milk, eggs and tea, often with some sort of spirit.
   • In the A flat andante, flowing like sweet honey, the waiter brings him, instead of coffee, a bavaroise; in the defiant C major Beethoven bellows out for his coffee: the waiter looks anxiously around, and, after a time again brings the bavaroise, but this time milled with “Obers.”1870 October 22, “Beethoven, Goethe, and Michael Angelo”, in Dwight’s Journal of Music, volume XXX, number 16, pages 329–330
2. (proscribed, sometimes) A cold dessert made from custard, cream and gelatine.
   • Saint Foix had a duel with a gentleman, whom he saw at the Café Procope, eating a bavaroise.1857 September, “The Code of Honor”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XV, number LXXXVIII, page 521

   Synonyms:

   bavarois, crème bavaroise, Bavarian cream