Holiday Foods
During Hanukkah, this food is a delicious staple on most dinner plates. In Hebrew, the dish is known as levivot. With shredded potato and onion, eggs, and breadcrumbs
Latkes
Fish, Salmon
Omega 3
The gradual browning of a loaf of bread during baking is due to
Mallard Reaction
The size of ice crystals needed for a creamy mouth feel, less grainy
Small
Also known as Christmas pie, is a widely popular and historical holiday dessert. Made of shredded beef or mutton, suet, dried fruit, and spices.
Mince Pie
A carbohydrate that is essential in the human diet, but we cannot digest it. Found in wholegrain cereals and fruit and vegetables
Fiber
Tomato products, particularly cooked and canned tomatoes provide a red pigment called lycopene that acts as
An antioxidant
used to prevent the icy taste in ice cream. Some examples are locust bean gum, extracts from brown kelp, red algae or Irish Moss, and guar gum.
stabilizers
A Canadian dessert that’s served during many holidays, but mostly during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Small pastries with a sweet filling made of butter, sugar, maple or corn syrup, eggs, and sometimes walnuts and raisins
Butter tarts
found in citrus fruits, melons, berries, peppers, broccoli and potatoes
Vitamin C
pigment or pigment state describes the bright red color of fresh meat
Oxymyoglobin
egg yolks and di-glycerides can be added to ice cream to contribute to a creamy mouthfeel and good meltdown characteristics
Emulsifiers
Served in France during the Christmas season, made with heavy cream, cocoa powder, eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract. It’s commonly decorated with icing sugar and fruit.
Yule Log
An essential amino acid, not found in corn, wheat, rice, or in the protein group Prolamines. Found in the protein group Glutelins
Lysine
Nitrites in meat products may form what carcinogenic compounds
Nitrosamines
This sugar lowers the freezing point making the ice cream easier to scoop
Lactose
Served in Russia during Christmas, contains pickled herring, hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, and grated vegetables like carrots, beets, potatoes, and onions
Shuba
spinach, broccoli, green leafy vegetables and liver
Vitamin K
the white colony growth of molds called
Mycelium
Ice cream is both a ____ and an emulsion! It is only partly frozen, and the majority of the space is occupied by air bubbles and ice crystals.
foam