Labels:text | screenshot | font | display OCR: A La King : Food heated in a rich white sauce, cream sauce or sherry-flavored sauce. A La Mode : Literally, in the fashion, or manner of ; this phrase is loosely used in American cookery; can mean food which has been soaked, and sometines cooked in a marinade; also pie served with a heaping mound of ice cream on it; or any dessert having ice cream on top. Appetizer : Food or beverage served before the first course of luncheon or dinner . Aspic: Almost any type of dish, except dessert, which has been thickened with gelatin, or covered with it. Formerly meant meat, chicken or fish stock, sometimes including bits of meat and vegetables, boiled down so that when cold it thickened with its own gelatin.