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 Cacciatore: meal prepared in a hunter-style, with tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, herbs and wine.
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Cacik: yogurt with cucumber and mint.
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Caciotta cheese: rural cheese made of either ewe's, cow's or sheep's milk.
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Calf's foot jelly: gelatine boiled calves feet and mixed with wine, lemon juice, sugar and spices.
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Candied fruit: fruit coated in sugar syrup and left to dry.
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Canned tomatoes: processed tomatoes with no peel and placed in a can.
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Cantal: French semi-hard cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
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Capers: small buds used as piquant flavoring or garnish.
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Caramelize: process of the sugar oxidation and mainly used in pastries to obtain a nutty flavor and brown color.
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 Candied Fruit |
Carob: native tree cultivated for its edible seed pods and put in cakes, icing and cookies.
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Caster sugar: extra fine granulated sugar.
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Caviar: processed and salted roe of various species of fish, especially sturgeon.
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Cheese wire: large rounds or wedges of cheese cutter.
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Chervil: herb used to flavor mild-flavoured foods including poultry, seafood and vegetables.
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Chickpeas: light white beans used in salads, also it is ground and shaped in balls to be either fried, cooked, roasted or spiced and eaten as a snack.
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 Caster Sugar |
Chicory: flowering plants which roots are baked, ground, and used as coffee substitute.
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Chilies: small spicy vegetable, the smallest and hottest is calle bird's eye. They are used fresh, dried or ground.
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Chilorio: shredded pork with chile and spices.
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 Chervil |
Chimbo: egg cakes baked in syrup.
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Chives: flowering plants and is used only the leaves as vegetable or herb to give a similar flavor as onions or garlic.
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Chow-chow: vegetarian cold dish which is a combination of various vegetables like carrots, beans, asparagus, cauliflower, and peas.
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Clam knife: oyster knife especially made for prying open clams.
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Condensed milk: cow's milk in which has been removed the water and added sugar, it is used in pastry and desserts.
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Cornish Pasties: individual potato and meat pies.
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Cress: plant used in salads and garnishes, also known as Watercress.
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Culatello: ham cured and soaked in wine during aging.
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Currants: small and rounded fruits with smooth skin, usually dried and used like raisins.
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Cutlet: small cut of meat of calf, mutton or lamb.
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