Crossword-Solution: COMPOTES
We have 6 clues for the answer “COMPOTES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Alternatives to preserves | 1 answer |
| Fruit dishes | 1 answer |
| Stewed fruit mixtures | 1 answer |
| Syrupy stewed fruit desserts | 1 answer |
| Fruity concoctions | 2 answers |
| Fruity desserts | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EECMZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with COMPOTES (5)
Judson her stock of jellies and compotes which I had found to be of a most excellent character, and had ordered as much more as she could manage to produce, together with cut flowers from her garden for my tables.
She had, as she well knew, secured for herself in the next world a sure compensation for any little sacrifices she might have made in this--a reflection that often consoled her under a too prolonged course of prayer and meditation, for which, to say the truth, she had little aptitude--and for the rest, she was universally allowed to be the best compote-maker (the nuns were famous for their compotes, which were in great demand), the best embroiderer, the best altar-decorator in the convent.
Compotes of all sorts of fruits and stewed Normandy pippins may be easily introduced into the luncheon basket, if put into a wide-mouthed, well stoppered bottle.
The second section was such an explosion of sweets as might fly into space should a comet collide with a confectioner's shop--nougat, _fougasso_, a great _poumpo_, compotes, candied-fruits, and a whole nightmare herd of rich cakes on which persons not blessed with the most powerful organs of digestion surely would go galloping to the country of dreadful dreams.
The table was French, the morning repast consisting of light dishes of meat, _compotes_, fruits, and sometimes _soupe au lait_, one of the simplest and best things for such a meal than can be imagined.
Quotes with COMPOTES (1)
Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1973–2023).