Meaning of "verjuice" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VERJUICE

From Old French vert jus green (unripe) juice, from Old French vert green (from Latin viridis) + jus juice (from Latin jūs).

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF VERJUICE

verjuice  [ˈvɜːˌdʒuːs]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VERJUICE

Verjuice is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb verjuice in English.

WHAT DOES VERJUICE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Verjuice

Verjuice is a highly acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes, crab-apples or other sour fruit. Sometimes lemon or sorrel juice, herbs or spices are added to change the flavour. In the Middle Ages, it was widely used all over Western Europe as an ingredient in sauces, as a condiment, or to deglaze preparations. It is still used to some extent in the American South. It was once used in many contexts where modern cooks would use either wine or some variety of vinegar, but has become much less widely used as wines and variously flavoured vinegars became more accessible. Nonetheless, it is still used in a number of French dishes as well as recipes from other European and Middle Eastern cuisines, and can be purchased at some gourmet grocery stores. The South Australian cook Maggie Beer has popularised the use of verjuice in her cooking, and it is being used increasingly in South Australian restaurants. Modern cooks most often use verjuice in salad dressings as the acidic ingredient, when wine is going to be served with the salad. This is because verjuice provides a comparable sour taste component, yet without "competing with" the wine the way vinegar or lemon juice would.

Definition of verjuice in the English dictionary

The first definition of verjuice in the dictionary is the acid juice of unripe grapes, apples, or crab apples, formerly much used in making sauces, etc. Other definition of verjuice is sourness or sharpness of temper, looks, etc. Verjuice is also to make sour; embitter.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO VERJUICE

PRESENT

Present

I verjuice

you verjuice

he/she/it verjuices

we verjuice

you verjuice

they verjuice

Present continuous

I am verjuicing

you are verjuicing

he/she/it is verjuicing

we are verjuicing

you are verjuicing

they are verjuicing

Present perfect

I have verjuiced

you have verjuiced

he/she/it has verjuiced

we have verjuiced

you have verjuiced

they have verjuiced

Present perfect continuous

I have been verjuicing

you have been verjuicing

he/she/it has been verjuicing

we have been verjuicing

you have been verjuicing

they have been verjuicing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I verjuiced

you verjuiced

he/she/it verjuiced

we verjuiced

you verjuiced

they verjuiced

Past continuous

I was verjuicing

you were verjuicing

he/she/it was verjuicing

we were verjuicing

you were verjuicing

they were verjuicing

Past perfect

I had verjuiced

you had verjuiced

he/she/it had verjuiced

we had verjuiced

you had verjuiced

they had verjuiced

Past perfect continuous

I had been verjuicing

you had been verjuicing

he/she/it had been verjuicing

we had been verjuicing

you had been verjuicing

they had been verjuicing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will verjuice

you will verjuice

he/she/it will verjuice

we will verjuice

you will verjuice

they will verjuice

Future continuous

I will be verjuicing

you will be verjuicing

he/she/it will be verjuicing

we will be verjuicing

you will be verjuicing

they will be verjuicing

Future perfect

I will have verjuiced

you will have verjuiced

he/she/it will have verjuiced

we will have verjuiced

you will have verjuiced

they will have verjuiced

Future perfect continuous

I will have been verjuicing

you will have been verjuicing

he/she/it will have been verjuicing

we will have been verjuicing

you will have been verjuicing

they will have been verjuicing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would verjuice

you would verjuice

he/she/it would verjuice

we would verjuice

you would verjuice

they would verjuice

Conditional continuous

I would be verjuicing

you would be verjuicing

he/she/it would be verjuicing

we would be verjuicing

you would be verjuicing

they would be verjuicing

Conditional perfect

I would have verjuice

you would have verjuice

he/she/it would have verjuice

we would have verjuice

you would have verjuice

they would have verjuice

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been verjuicing

you would have been verjuicing

he/she/it would have been verjuicing

we would have been verjuicing

you would have been verjuicing

they would have been verjuicing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you verjuice
we let´s verjuice
you verjuice

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to verjuice

Past participle

verjuiced

Present Participle

verjuicing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

TRANSLATION OF VERJUICE

Find out the translation of verjuice to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of verjuice from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «verjuice» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 酸果汁
• Translator English - Spanish: agraz
• English: verjuice
• Translator English - Hindi: कटुता
• Translator English - Arabic: verjuice
• Translator English - Russian: verjuice
• Translator English - Portuguese: verjuice
• Translator English - Bengali: কাঁচা ফলের রস
• Translator English - French: verjus
• Translator English - Malay: Verjuice
• Translator English - German: Verjus
• Translator English - Japanese: ヴェルジュ
• Translator English - Korean: verjuice
• Translator English - Javanese: Banget
• Translator English - Vietnamese: rượu chua làm bằng nho chua
• Translator English - Tamil: verjuice
• Translator English - Marathi: सुपीकपणा
• Translator English - Turkish: mayhoşluk
• Translator English - Italian: agresto
• Translator English - Polish: verjuice
• Translator English - Ukrainian: verjuice
• Translator English - Romanian: verjuice
• Translator English - Greek: αγγουρίδα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: verjuice
• Translator English - Swedish: verjuice
• Translator English - Norwegian: verjuice

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERJUICE»

Discover the use of verjuice in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to verjuice and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Cooking With Verjuice

In Cooking with Verjuice, Maggie offers many tips and recipes from her own collection and from friends and colleagues.Learn from Maggie Beer why verjuice is an indispensable ingredient in the kitchen.

Maggie Beer, 2003

The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages

In other regions a cook would normally have to wait until the middle of August for deliveries of fresh verjuice. Alternatives, if not substitutes, for verjuice had to be on hand in most kitchens. Recipes are common enough in the course of which ...

Terence Scully, 2005

Early French Cookery: Sources, History, Original Recipes and ...

What seems in most instances to be a satisfactory alternative to verjuice is plain grape juice invigorated with a dash of lemon juice for tartness. c. Cookery There is nothing that the medieval cook did to his ingredients that we cannot do today, ...

D. Eleanor Scully, Terence Scully, 2002

Gastronomie au Moyen Age:

Cut up your chickens, fry them with pork fat and with onions; and while they are frying add a little water so that they cook nicely in the pan; and stir them often with a large spoon; add spices, saffron, and sour grape juice [verjuice], and boil; and ...

Odile Redon, Françoise Sabban, Silvano Serventi, 2000

Food in Medieval Times

Verjuice Also referred to as agrestum or agraz in the medieval cookbooks, verjuice was the tart juice of crab apples, unripe grapes, or other unripe fruit that was frequently added to medieval dishes. Classified as extremely cold and moderately ...

Melitta Weiss Adamson, 2004

The Cook's Dictionary and House-keeper's Directory: A New ...

It will keep good for twelve months. VERJUICE.— Verjuice is the young, uiu i|H', and sour grape ; it is frequently used in French cookery, but very rarely put into English dishes. Verjuice. — Take some crab apples when the kernels turn black,  ...

Richard Dolby, 1830

Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, 1989: Staplefoods : ...

Although verjuice is cited in many more French recipes, its uses are much the same as in the English ones. Again it is seemingly mostly associated with dishes of “light meat”. Recipes for thick and thin stews of veal, pork, hen, kid, capon, and  ...

Harlan Walker, 1990

Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe: A Book of Essays

"or sour it with more verjuice according to the taste of your patron"17 And we certainly run into trouble with ingredients that are not available now. but even the most improbable of these will be hedgehog and porcupine. or crane. stork. swan.

Melitta Weiss Adamson, 2002

Medieval English Gardens

Even when there was a hot summer, with its promise of good wine grapes, some of them were picked when they were still small and green, and pressed into verjuice: no self-respecting gardener would leave the household kitchens without  ...

Teresa McLean, 2014

The turf register, and sportsman & breeder's stud-book, by ...

William Pick, R. Johnson. Am. 1782.) VERJUICE. 459 Shack-a-B.»ek SirH. Lippincott's Sir David. . . . Lord Stawell's Sorcerer .... Sir C. Bunbury's Sweeper .... Lord Clermont's Susan Sir J. Lade's Taffy Col. Cooke's Thais Sir C. Bunbury's Tot .

William Pick, R. Johnson, 1822

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VERJUICE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term verjuice is used in the context of the following news items.

Persian chicken stew with pistachios and mint recipe

Add the turmeric and pepper and cook for another minute, then pour in the verjuice and stock. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat to a very gentle simmer and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»

Unripe Grapes Are Good For Something

In the center of the Venn diagram that contains upcycling, wine pairing and sustainable agriculture, you'll find verjuice. Also spelled verjus, the name comes from ... «Modern Farmer, Nov 14»

Chef Ottolenghi Makes The Case For 'Plenty More' Vegetables

When's the last time you cooked with sorrel leaves or nigella seeds? What about a marrow squash or verjuice? (Don't even know what a verjuice is? Neither did ... «NPR, Oct 14»

Maggie Beer's labelling lessons from the ACCC

... aged red wine vinegar, rosemary and verjuice biscuits and the Maggie Beer ice cream range - are manufactured at facilities in Victoria and Queensland. «FOOD Magazine - Australia, Sep 14»

Maggie Beer Products acknowledges misleading conduct

The incident in question involves four out of 200 products in the Maggie Beer range; extra virgin olive oil, aged red wine vinegar, rosemary and verjuice biscuits ... «Australian Hospitality Magazine, Aug 14»

Slow-roasted quinces with honey, cinnamon and cloves

Scatter over the sugar, drizzle with the honey, add the lemon and orange zest and juice and pour over the verjuice. Scatter over the cinnamon quills, cloves and ... «Good Food, May 14»

Making the most from grapes

Steven Zsigmond runs a vineyard at St Arnaud in western Victoria and says his family started making verjuice as a way to use fruit that would otherwise be ... «ABC Online, Feb 14»

AZ of unusual ingredients: verjus

In 2001 she released a recipe book, Cooking with Verjuice, with a follow-up in ... The Verjuice Co. is based in the heart of South Africa's wine region and The ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 13»

20 best recipes from Nigel Slater's books: part 1

To the pan, I add liquid such as cider or, just as suitable, a glass of verjuice - the light, fruity liquor ('tain't wine, 'tain't vinegar) made from unfermented grapes. «NDTV, Nov 13»

What to do with verjuice

Recently someone gave me a bottle of verjuice and I would appreciate some suggestions on how to use it. J. Sparkes. I love looking at people's collections, ... «Good Food, Oct 13»