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Truffle Chocolate Eggs(recipes)
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truffle (iou)



truffle noun & verb. L16.
[Prob. from Dutch truffel, truffele from French truffle (now truffe), perh. ult. from popular Latin var. of Latin tubera pl. of TUBER.]
A. noun.
Any of various underground fungi of the order Tuberales; spec. either of two strong-smelling edible fungi, Tuber melanosporum (more fully black truffle, Perigord truffle) and Tuber magnatum (more fully white truffle), having a rough warty exterior, regarded as a great culinary delicacy and collected in France and northern Italy with the help of trained dogs or pigs. L16.
A usu. round sweet made of a mixture of chocolate and cream, freq. flavoured with rum, coffee, etc., and rolled in cocoa or coated with chocolate. E20.
Comb.: truffle-dog, truffle-hound, truffle-pig: trained to find truffles.
b. verb intrans. Hunt or root for truffles. M20.
fig.: Times The book is worth reading...You can truffle happily among the errors and the fantasy.
truffled adjective cooked, garnished, or stuffed with truffles (fungi) M19.