fumet

Meaning

Noun

• A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
• A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
• Alternative of fumette (stench or high flavour of meat)
• The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.

Origin

• From the French fumet ("aroma"), from Latin fumus ("smoke"). fumetto.
• Compare French fumier dung, Old French femier, from Latin fimum ("dung"). See fewmet.