breading

Pluralbreadings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The process of covering a thin slice of meat in flour, egg, and breadcrumbs before frying.

   The breading of veal scallops calls for a light dusting of flour before the egg wash.

   Restaurants often speed up breading by lining up three shallow bowls in a row.

   Similarcoating

   Note

   Here the -ing word behaves as a true noun, and the test is what follows it. The noun takes an article and of (the breading of veal scallops), while the verb form takes a direct object (breading the shrimp). It can be counted, with the plural breadings, or left uncountable when it names the kitchen step in general.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of bread.

   She is breading veal cutlets at the kitchen counter.

   Breading the shrimp takes patience to get an even coat.

   Note

   The -ing form of a verb that always wants an object: a cook breads cutlets, shrimp or fish, never simply breads. The same spelling also serves the kitchen noun, so the test is grammar rather than meaning. Behind the form stands a second transitive verb bread, meaning to form in meshes or to net, so breading can in principle describe netting as well as coating.

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