forcemeat

American  

[fawrs-meet, fohrs-] / ˈfɔrsˌmit, ˈfoʊrs- /

noun

Cooking.

1. a mixture of finely chopped and seasoned foods, usually containing egg white, meat or fish, etc., used as a stuffing or served alone.

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forcemeat British  

/ ˈfɔːsˌmiːt /

noun

1. Also called: farce.   farcemeat.  a mixture of chopped or minced ingredients used for stuffing

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Etymology

Origin of forcemeat

1680–90; force, variant of obsolete farce stuffing + meat

Example Sentences

Thicken the Baby Yoda gravy, if needful, with rice flour or with flour and Bantha butter, and serve plenty of Kowakian monkey-lizard forcemeat balls round the head.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2019

It was powder and milk, not forcemeat and cloth.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2018

Paté en croute is a dense, savory loaf of pork and foie gras forcemeat, capped with a flavorful gelée and wrapped in a golden, egg-enriched pastry.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2017

I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was “mamaliga,” and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call “impletata.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Its ultimate origin is the Latin farcire, to stuff, and with the meaning of “stuffing” or forcemeat it appears in old cookery books in English.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

Related Words

• filling
• stuffing