Cooking with Eggs
What part of the egg consists of fat and protein?
Yolk
What is the method called that we used when making creme brulee and chocolate Soufle to mix the eggs and other ingredients together without scrambling the eggs?
Tempering
What dessert is made from cream, egg yolks, sugar, vanilla, and topped with additional burnt sugar?
Creme Brulee
What two factors determine the cost of eggs?
Size and Grade
What is the yellow in the egg called?
Yolk
What cooking method is being used when we drop an egg in a tornado of water with a little white vinegar and no shell?
Poaching
Most recipes are written for what size eggs?
Large
What does creme brulee mean?
Burnt cream
What causes cream puffs to expand in the oven?
Steam
What is the gap between the egg and the shell of an egg and can be seen even better when the egg is boiled?
Air Cell
Eggs that are fried on the bottom, flipped, and cook for just a little bit, keeping the yolk runny?
Over-easy
Which statement is true about the color of eggs?
White eggs are more nutritious than brown eggs.
The color of the shell has no effect on nutrition.
Brown eggs are less nutritious than white eggs.
Blue eggs are the most nutritious of all.
2. The color of the shell has no effect on the nutritional value of eggs.
Foods that use eggs to add flavor, richness, and color?
Cakes and Puddings
What method was used when cooking the creme brulee?
Water Bath or Bain-Marie
What is the clear part of the egg called?
Albumen
Egg that is cooked on the bottom and not flipped leaving the yolk with no white over it.
Sunny-up
Eggs mixed together well with very little air incorporated, cooked in a pan, with no color, finished by rolling, and brushing with butter.
French Omelette
What is a boiled custard we have made?
Pastry cream
What stabilizer was added to the Meringue for Angel Food Cake?
Cream of Tarter
There are two parts to the albumen. What are they?
Thick and Thin
Egg that is fried and then flipped cooked for a few minutes so the yolk gets hard, may have a tiny bit of runny yolk.
Over-hard
What is it called when eggs are cooked in a pan with a little bit of fat?
Fry
What can be made from Pate Choux Dough?
Cream Puffs or Eclairs
What part of the egg is used to make meringues?
Egg Whites
The cord that holds the egg yolk in place?
Chalazae