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Barding

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In culinary arts & cooking, barding means: Covering lean meat with thin pieces of fat before cooking to protect its surface.

In Turkish: eti yağ dilimleriyle sarma

How it is used

Used in classical meat preparation; the fat lies around the outside.

Example sentences

  1. Barding helped protect the lean joint during roasting.

    The fat covering acts on the outside of the meat.

  2. The demonstration compared barding with inserting fat into meat.

    The contrast distinguishes an outer covering from internal strips.

Common collocations

  • barding fat
  • barding lean meat
  • roastTo cook meat, poultry or vegetables with dry heat in an oven, usually at a fairly high temperature so the outside browns. As a noun, a roast is a joint of meat cooked this way.
  • prepShort for preparation: the work of getting food ready before cooking or service, such as washing, peeling, cutting, portioning and making sauces. Also used as a verb.

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