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Melba|ˈmɛlbə|
The stage name Nellie Melba (adopted from Melbourne, Australia, by Helen Mitchell (1861–1931), an Australian operatic soprano): used to designate certain foods, etc., named in her honour, as peach Melba (also melba, pêche à la Melba, pêche Melba |pɛʃ ˈmɛlbə|), a confection of ice-cream and peaches flavoured with raspberry sauce, etc.; Melba sauce (see quot. 1951); Melba toast (or toast Melba), thinly-sliced bread toasted to crispness.
1905[see coupe1]. 1907G. A. Escoffier Guide Mod. Cookery xx. 778 Pêches Melba. Poach the peaches in vanilla-flavoured syrup. Dish them in a timbale upon a layer of vanilla ice-cream, and coat them with a raspberry purée. 1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 33/2 Sauces..Melba (Escoffier's)—1/6.
[1909A. G. Murphy Melba xxiii. 141 Melba's..tour for 1898–99. By this time innumerable soaps and sauces, ribbons and ruffles, had been named after her.] 1909W. J. Locke Septimus iii. 40 The spoonful of peach Melba which she was going to put in her mouth. 1923Mrs. Beeton's All about Cookery 418/1 Peach Melba... Halve and peel the peaches. ..serve them piled around a mould of vanilla ice cream{ddd}pour over a rich raspberry syrup. 1925I. C. B. Allen Mrs. Allen on Cooking xii. 222 Patti Bread or Melba Toast. 1926Kipling Debits & Credits 28 Filet béarnaise, Woodcock and Richebourg '74, Pêches Melba, Croûtes Baron. 1928D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xviii. 214 You're as cold as a pêche Melba. 1938Times 19 Aug. 7/3 Future generations may want more chickens and more peach melbas and less bread and cheese. 1938M. L. Ritz César Ritz xiv. 204 Toast thin slices of bread once, then cut it through again, and again toast it... The result was Escoffier's justly famous toast Melba... During that year [sc. 1897] Melba had returned from America very ill... I had heard Escoffier discuss her régime. Dry toast figured on it... ‘Call it toast Melba,’ I said. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 552/1 Melba Sauce, a bright-red sweet sauce made from fresh raspberries and served with fruit sundaes, peach melba and similar desserts. 1953E. Taylor Sleeping Beauty ix. 161 Sundaes, shakes, parfaits, whips, melbas. 1964A. Launay Caviare & After 137 Melba, large or small cuts of meat garnished with truffles, mushrooms, [etc.]..and served with a Port-flavoured sauce. Also fruit served with vanilla ice-cream and thick raspberry syrup. 1970Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 292/2 The peach is historically associated with ice-cream because when Dame Nellie Melba, the great Australian singer, gave a party at the Savoy Hotel in London in 1892, Escoffier, who was then the chef at the Savoy, created the famous Pêche Melba in her honour. 1972S. Atterbury Waste Not—Want Not 142 The Slow Cooking Method is ideal for Melba toast. 1972Vogue June Special 128/3 Melba sauce. Blend 8 oz. fresh raspberries and pass through a sieve. Mix in 4 tablespooons icing sugar and add Kirsch to taste. |
