bardes de lard (bärd de lär).—Fat slices of bacon for covering meat to be braised.
bar le duc (bär le dük).—A kind of jam of white gooseberries.
bas bleu (bä blö´), a blue-stocking; a woman who seeks a reputation for learning.
Bava´rian cream.—A cream jelly thickened with gelatine and set in a mold, and variously flavored and enriched; a Bavaroise; a kind of flummery.
Bava´rian dumplings.—Boiled pudding, consisting of bread fried in fat, bread crumbs soaked in cream or milk, eggs, butter, flour, salt, and spice; or some other similar composition.
Bava´rian sauce.—A modified Dutch sauce of vinegar, eggs, and butter flavored with crayfish butter.
Bavaroise (bä-vä-rwäz´).—Bavarian. See [Bavarian cream.]
beau-idéal (bō ē dā ȧl´), a model of ideal perfection.
beau monde (bō môNd´), the fashionable world.
beaux esprits (bō zes prē´), men of wit or genius.