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Sfogliatelle are shell shaped filled pastries native to Italian cuisine. "Sfogliatelle" means "many leaves/layers", the pastry's texture resembling leaves stacked on each other. Filling recipes also vary; some examples are an orange-flavored ricotta filling, almond paste or candied peel of citron. Italian-American bakeries, especially in the ...
The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savory, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard. The croustade, crostata, galette, tarte tatin and turnovers are various types of pies and tarts. Flan, in Britain, is an open pastry or sponge case containing a sweet or savory filling.
Battle rifle: A service rifle capable of semi-automatic or fully automatic fire of a full-power rifle cartridge. Bayonet lug: An attachment point at the muzzle end of a long gun for a bayonet. Belt: An ammunition belt is a device used to retain and feed cartridges into some machine guns in place of a magazine.
Drupe. In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part ( exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pip (UK), pit (US), stone, or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed ( kernel) inside. [1] These fruits usually develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers ...
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The expression "in a nutshell" (of a story, proof, etc.) means "in essence ", metaphorically alluding to the fact that the essence of the nut - its edible part - is contained inside its shell. The expression further gave rise to the journalistic term nut graph, short for nutshell paragraph . In Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2) the title character ...
Amandine. Romania. A chocolate layered cake filled with chocolate, caramel and fondant cream. Amygdalopita. Greece. An almond cake made with ground almonds, flour, butter, egg and pastry cream. Angel cake. United Kingdom [1] A type of layered sponge cake, often garnished with cream and food coloring.
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