Cooking Terms 1
cutting meat or other foods into tiniest possible pieces
What is to Mince
sprinkle food with dry ingredients
What is to flour
Shred a food with a tool or your hands
What is to grate
where all materials/food that are needed listed?
What is the ingredient list
Combining fat and sugar
What is to cream
to cook in small amounts of fat in a pan
What is to saute
removing skin from fruits and vegetables
What is to peel or pare
Incorporating air into a mix to make it light and fluffy
What is to whip
To cut into VERY small cubes.
What is to dice
What three molecules are microwaves attracted to?
What is sugar, water, fat
What tells you how to make the food?
What are cooking directions / step instructions
Using your hands to blend dough and create gluten
What is to knead
To heat liquid just below the boiling point
What is to simmer
Using a pastry blender to cut pieces of fat into flour for things like biscuits
What is to cut in
when someone is baking, you _______ ___ ____ to a certain temperature BEFORE anything else
What is to preheat the oven
when water is heated to a temprature when bubbles rise to the surface
What is to boil
Heavily coat something in bread crumbs or another coating, like in deep frying
What is to dredge
To cook by the vapor produced when water is heated to the boiling point
What is to steam
What is the proper way to measure flour?
What is using a dry measuring cup, spooning the flour into it, and leveling it off.
how many TEASPOONS are in a cup?
What is 48 teaspoons