What's the difference between breadcrumb and crumb?

Breadcrumb


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.
  • (2) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
  • (3) 4 Toss the breadcrumbs with the remaining oil, thyme and parmesan.
  • (4) Toss in the butter cubes, and rub into the flour until the texture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
  • (5) Serves 8–10 For the sweet pastry 110g butter, softened 135g caster sugar 1 tsp baking powder 225g strong flour, plus extra for dusting A pinch of salt 125ml double cream For the filling 225g golden syrup 50g dark treacle 220ml double cream 75g oatmeal or fresh white breadcrumbs 2 eggs, beaten 1 tbsp lemon juice Extra-thick or clotted cream, to serve 1 For the pastry, cream the butter and sugar together.
  • (6) For 2 chicken fillets, smoked paprika , Dijon mustard, breadcrumbs Mix 3 heaped tablespoons of Dijon mustard with 2 teaspoons of hot smoked paprika and a little salt and pepper.
  • (7) Only recently has a semi-cogent picture of Slint emerged in Lance Bangs’s documentary Breadcrumb Trail , a film that poses more questions than it answers.
  • (8) One story earlier this year highlighted just how little we know about what lies inside the golden breadcrumb coating.
  • (9) A mixture of breadcrumbs and cheese failed to show a statistically significant difference to breadcrumbs despite a substantially lower mean value for the breadcrumbs and cheese mixture.
  • (10) 5 Fill a wok a third full with oil, heat until a breadcrumb sizzles and turns golden within 30 seconds, then fry the dumplings in batches until golden.
  • (11) In vivo intraoral tests were carried out to confirm the low cariogenic potential of this substrate in humans and to explore the enamel-softening effects of toasted breadcrumbs and those of a mixture of breadcrumbs and cheese.
  • (12) Put 25g panko or other crisp white breadcrumbs on a plate.
  • (13) Stir in the vanilla, butter, sugar and breadcrumbs.
  • (14) It's a fun guest spot; nobody minds when Ed ends up with his hair full of breadcrumbs.
  • (15) Pulse briefly until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.
  • (16) The winning recipe: Quail's egg bhajis A quail's egg enveloped by curried onion batter, then breadcrumbed and deep-fried makes this more of a bhaji-Scotch egg hybrid.
  • (17) Once firm, this now flat cut is sliced into thick strips, smeared with mustard, beaten egg and coated with breadcrumbs.
  • (18) Remove from the heat and stir in the breadcrumbs, soft cheese and lemon juice.
  • (19) Serves 4 salted anchovies 10 breadcrumbs 240g sea salt spaghetti 400g extra virgin olive oil 60ml Rinse and dry the anchovies.
  • (20) Fold in the onion, breadcrumbs and cheese, then chill for at least an hour.

Crumb


Definition:

  • (n.) A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.
  • (n.) Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.
  • (n.) The soft part of bread.
  • (v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fundus appeared to consist of multiple, scattered, pale, bread crumb-like lesions that seemed to lie deep to the retinal vessels and anterior to the retinal pigment epithelium.
  • (2) The only small crumb of comfort for Osborne is that when he delivers his budget in March it will be too soon to know the GDP figures for the first quarter of 2012 — so although we may already be in recession by then, we won't know it.
  • (3) To – as our north of England editor Helen Pidd wrote last week – no longer live on crumbs, while others in London enjoy entire loaves.
  • (4) One crumb of consolation is that the damage was to Wilshere’s left ankle, rather than the more problematic right one, which kept him out for 17 months from June 2011.
  • (5) Press the fillets first into the mustard and paprika, then into the crumbs.
  • (6) The champagne bottles are in the recycling bin, the bouquets on the compost heap and the cake crumbs swept away.
  • (7) Over my week in the Netherlands, I’d tried other delicacies: locust tabbouleh; chicken crumbed in buffalo worms; bee larvae ceviche; tempura-fried crickets; rose beetle larvae stew; soy grasshoppers; chargrilled sticky rice with wasp paste; buffalo worm, avocado and tomato salad; a cucumber, basil and locust drink; and a fermented, Asian-style dipping sauce made from grasshoppers and mealworms.
  • (8) In another experiment, minced meat was mixed with starch from golden bread crumbs (3%) or potatoes (4%), with and without glucose (1, 2 or 4%).
  • (9) There were crumbs of brilliance for fans on luvvies' day (nice to see Sir Bruce Forsyth so attentive, nice), most of them from the racket of the defending champion.
  • (10) The measure of humidity, of peroxides and of the staleness of crumb are favourable for a good conservation.
  • (11) One inmate was denied outdoor exercise for 60 days for trying to feed crumbs to birds.
  • (12) Evidence that the lesions were well placed included interruption of weight gain, transient aphagia, disrupted nest building, increased spillage of food crumbs and in some cases abnormal postures or movement.
  • (13) Of course it is the hyperbolic silliness – the make-or-break trifle sponge, custard thefts, and prolonged ruminations over "The Crumb" – that makes The Great British Bake Off so lovable.
  • (14) Brush off any crumbs from the marzipan and worktop before wrapping the cake, to be sure that the outside of the cake will have a smooth, neat finish.
  • (15) Biomicroscopy also revealed a progressive disruption of the homogeneous nature of the corneal stroma by the appearance of large 'bread crumb'-like opacities that started at 72 h and was still present at the end of the evaluation period.
  • (16) The leftist, pro-Kurdish HDP party gained a small crumb of comfort from passing the 10% threshold it needed to secure seats as a party in the new parliament – less than the 13% it scored in June, but enough to deny the AKP a so-called supermajority, the 330 MPs a ruling party needs to be able to call a referendum on changes to the country’s constitution.
  • (17) Whatever crumbs of wrongdoing there may be, they don’t amount to something worthy of Watergate, or even the myriad gate-suffixed scandals since.
  • (18) "Widening inequality is creating a vicious circle where wealth and power are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, leaving the rest of us to fight over crumbs from the top table," Byanyima said.
  • (19) He continued to live off his notoriety, posing for photographs with tourists in exchange for money, selling souvenir T-shirts that commemorated his escapes, scrabbling for crumbs from the media table and charging tourists £40 for a barbecue at his house.
  • (20) You are poor in the wealthiest city in the world, the crumbs fall downwards, you will be given a chance to get up again.

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