Firm, compact head with crisp, mild-tasting pale green leaves.
What is iceberg?
Any of a number of smooth flavoured butters, dressings, or pastes intended to coat the bread before adding toppings or fillings.
What is a spread?
A salad mixed with a heavy dressing in order to bind the ingredients together.
What is a bound salad?
An unstable emulsion whose components will eventually separate.
What is a temporary emulsion?
Sandwiches that have three or more slices of bread separating the layers.
What is a multi-decker sandwich?
This is a term for a mixture of tender, baby lettuces.
What is mesclun?
When setting up your station for building sandwiches it is important that you assemble and prepare these two elements.
What are ingredients and equipment?
A salad made by arranging two or more ingredients attractively on the plate rather than by mixing them.
What is a composed salad?
Dressing or sauce made of oil, vinegar, and flavoring ingredients.
What is a vinaigrette?
Sandwiches with only one piece of bread served on the bottom.
What is an open faced sandwich?
Elongated, loosely packed head with dark green, coarse leaves. Crisp texture, with full, sweet flavor. Sometimes known as 'cos' and used in Caesar salads.
What is romaine?
Doing this makes the sandwich easier to handle and eat, and it makes possible a more attractive presentation.
What is cutting a sandwich?
The ingredients that make up the main part of the salad and give the salad its distinctive quality
What is the body of a salad?
A uniform mixture of two substances that are normally unmixable.
What is an emulsion?
Grilled sandwiches usually made in a device that grills both sides at once while compressing the sandwich.
What are panini?
Narrow, lightly packed, pointed heads resembling spearheads, 4–6 inches (10–15 cm) long.
What is Belgian Endive or Witloof Chicory?
Because cold sandwiches are subjected to a lot of handling and are not cooked, it is especially important to keep this in mind when preparing sandwiches.
What is a sanitation/hygiene/food safety?
The basic salad green, usually lettuce, upon which the salad is created.
What is the base of a salad?
A type of vinegar made from apples.
What is cider vinegar?
A sandwich composed of fillings between two slices of bread.
What is a simple, or closed sandwich?
Also known as rocket, these pungent, distinctively flavored greens are related to mustard and watercress.
What is arugula?
These are long, rectangular loaves that provide square slices of specified thickness, from ⅜ to ⅝ inch (10 to 16 mm) thick.
What are Pullman loaves?
Any number of toppings or ingredients that complement the salad with added colour, texture and flavour.
What is garnish?
This is the ratio of oil to vinegar in a basic vinaigrette.
What is 3 to 1?
Small sandwiches made of bread with the crusts removed, light fillings, and cut into small two-bite pieces
What are tea sandwiches?