aspic

Meaning

1. A meat or fish jelly.
2. A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
3. (obsolete) An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
4. A piece of ordnance carrying a 12-pound shot.

jelly

gelatine

galantine

Jell-O

meat-jelly

gelatin dessert

fish in jelly

fish in aspic

jello

jellied meat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæspɪk/

Borrowed from French aspic, from Latin aspis, and possibly influenced by French basilic (“basilisk”). The culinary sense may come from association with the snake due to the traditional colours and cold temperature of aspic, in addition to the fact that the gelatine was often moulded in a shape similar to a coiled snake.