ocr: AI La King: Food heated in a rich white sauce, cream sauce or Sherry-Tlavored sauce. AI La Mode: Literally, in the fashion, or mamer 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 dimer. 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 in ...