Sippets anyone?

[Bob Pacey]

And you have never heard of snippets either.

Get with the temis H tahts the way eervyone speles now.

Bob

[alongtimegone]

Word of the Day: Sippets
Building up your kitchen vocab arsenal
By Food Republic




They’re not croutons they’re sippets, so zip it! Now unzip it because you definitely want to get familiar with your soup's best friend from the olden days.

Sippets, originating in British Victorian cuisine, are small cubes or wedges of bread fried with fresh herbs and butter, most commonly used to garnish soup. We're not sure why these were phased out and croutons were introduced, as croutons are rarely fried in butter with fresh herbs these days. Where did we go wrong?

[Heather]

Oh stop it, you are making me hungry! Warren, anyone can see that "croutons" are so much more delicious than plain old "sippets". They are French, so that must be right.

[alongtimegone]

In England they're sippets. In France they're croutons. The French can make even fried bread sound sexy.
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