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sautoire

sautoire noun: a heavy skillet with straight sides, used for sautéing food. Also the misspelling of sautoir.

sautoire: a heavy skillet with straight sides, used for sautéing food
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Noun

sautoire (plural sautoires)

  1. A heavy skillet with straight sides, used for sautéing food.
    • Use the same slices of bread, only instead of toasting them, lay them in a sautoire with hot clarified butter; brown them on one side only, then drain, and leave the butter in the sautoire.1893, Charles Ranhofer, The Epicurean, 2017 Facsimile edition, Dover (Calla Editions), page 334
    • Dip them in beaten egg, roll in fresh bread crumbs, and place in a sautoire with one ounce of clarified butter.1900, Jennie Day Rees, The Complete Cook Book, page 109

Also used as

sautoire is also the misspelling of sautoir.

Examples of sautoire in a sentence

  • Lay them in a sautoire, season with salt, pepper and two ounces butter.1903, Mrs. Simon Kander, Mrs. Henry Schoenfeld, The "Settlement" Cook Book, 1903: The Way to a Man's Heart, Dover, published 2005, page 74:
  • Place them in a sautoire with a glass of Madeira wine.1904, Alan Dale, Wanted: A Cook:

Forms of sautoire

pluralsautoires

Origin of sautoire

Borrowed from French sautoire.

Questions about sautoire

What does sautoire mean?
Sautoire means a heavy skillet with straight sides, used for sautéing food.
How do you use sautoire in a sentence?
Lay them in a sautoire, season with salt, pepper and two ounces butter.
What part of speech is sautoire?
Sautoire is a noun.
What is the plural of sautoire?
The plural of sautoire is sautoires.

Words near sautoire in the dictionary

  1. Sauthoff
  2. sautillé
  3. sautillés
  4. sauting up
  5. sautoir
  6. sautoire
  7. sautoires
  8. sautoirs
  9. sautrie
  10. sautries
  11. sauts de basque

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