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Cooking Terminology
Find out what cooking terms mean before you flambe your bananas, caramelize your onions, or julienne your carrots.
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The thymus gland (known as throat sweetbread) and the pancreas (stomach sweetbread), especially of the calf and lamb (although beef sweetbreads are sometimes eaten), are considered delicacies and are rich in mineral elements and vitamins. The pancreas is generally preferred to the thymus. Sweetbreads are highly perishable and, immediately after removal from refrigeration, should be soaked and parboiled, then creamed, curried, braised, or otherwise prepared for serving.
What does incorporate mean in cooking terms?
Generally speaking, if your cooking instructions say to incorporate an ingredient, it means to lightly mix it in to the batter, for example. You don't want to overmix or overwork the batter, just lightly stir it in with a spatula or spoon. Don't get out the beaters or the tabletop mixer, do it gently by hand, wihtout overdoing it.
How much is a heaping in cooking terms?
Heaping in cooking is referring to measurements of food or ingredients. A heaping helping is an over-sized helping or rounded over measurement. Precise measurement would be when the food or ingredient is scraped flat, even with the top of the measuring cup or spoon. Heaping is not scraped off, but rounded over at the top.
What is the meaning of paprika in Telugu?
The Telugu/English dictionary translates Paprika to Paprika or Spanish Paprika in English.
Paprika is a spice made from the ground fruit of the Capsicum Annum which is a Bell Pepper or a Chile Pepper.
food control meas what is the order, who is the order, when is the order, and how much the order,
What is the meaning of curdle in cooking?
It means lump from a modified food protein, such as in the curds of Cottage cheese, or Tofu from soy. It can also be used to mean lump from a non modified food protein, however it's origin comes from the fermentation of milk.
What is the meaning of buffet?
A buffet is a selection of food laid out and the eater selects what they want to eat, rather than choosing from a menu or having a dish put in front of them. They help themself.
Buffet is a French word, meaning all you can consume. Some buffets you can refill your plates, but some only let you fill one plate to the tippy top.
What is meaning of one-dish-meal?
A one dish meal is just a meal that is prepared using one dish resulting in less cleanup. IE: Stir fry
A conditioned pan is a pan that has been used for cooking at least once.
What is the meaning of 1 gallon bag in cooking?
One gallon bag in cooking terms generally refers to a gallon-size zip lock bag used for freezing or otherwise storing food.
What is the meaning of native delicacies?
A native delicacy is a recipe which is quite popular in some particular country and not well-known abroad. Generally, the locals would see it as s treat fro themselves, only occasionally eaten.
What is the meaning of the naked olive?
the meaning of it is .... ... ... ... THE OLIVE IS NAKED IT'S WEARING NO CLOTHES
The Blending method in baking means to mix 2 or more things together. It can also mean stirring.
What is the difference between cuisine and food?
Food is the fuel we must consume to keep functioning; it's what we eat.
Cuisine is a term describing a particular style of preparing that food, or a particular type of food eaten in a specific place, which might be a country, region, hotel, restaurant, household, and so on.
The eighteenth-century English word 'cuisine' comes from the same French term, meaning 'style of cooking', which came into the French language from Latin; 'cuisine' now means the same in both French and English.
We generally use the word 'cuisine' together with a qualifying word, but also alone when we simply mean 'style of cooking':
'The new restaurant specializes in Thai cuisine.'
'My mother is Irish and my father Spanish, the cuisineat home frequently has lots of potatoes and peppers!'
'I can't wait to visit Europe; I love Mediterranean cuisine.'
'The local cuisine is famous for its seafood.'
"Don't pass up an invitation to dine at their home: their cuisine is marvellous.'
What is the meaning of reversible and irreversible in cooking?
Reversible changes mean that i.e. if you make a chocolate sweet/lolly pop etc.. you can melt it back and make another one.
Irreversible changes mean that i.e. if you crack an egg and it burns, you can not turn back into a raw egg in an unbroken shell again.
