Mother Sauces
Techniques
Cooking Terminology
Kitchen Math
Baking
100

Which Mother Sauce is used to make pizza sauce

What is Tomate?

100

Steaming/Boiling vs sautéed in fat then adding liquid vs sauteéd in fat and adding the liquid in small amounts

What is cooking rice vs cooking pilaf vs cooking risotto?

100

Define rendering.

What is slowly cooking the protein until the fat separates from the solid?

100

The measurement equal to 3 teaspoons

What is a tablespoon?

100

Which dough needs cold butter rolled-in so it can steam and form layers when baked?

What is laminated dough?

200

Which Mother sauce starts with a roux and then adds milk?

What is Bechamel?

200

How do you cook potatoes vs rice vs pasta

What is start in cold water then bring to a boil vs adding to boiling water and reducing to a simmer vs adding to boiling water and cooking until done?

200

What are the 5 tastes?

What are sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami?

200

What are 2 equivalents to .25 cups

What are 1/4 cup of 4 tablespoons ?

200

What should the internal temperature be in enriched dough when it is finished baking?

What 180 to190 degrees?

300

Which Mother is not cooked and contains eggs?

What is Hollandaise?

300

This soup is thickened with a roux while this soup is thickened with the ingredients themselves?

What are a cream soup and a pureed soup?

300

What is to "concassè a tomato?

What is blanching a tomato and removing the skin?

300

What is the ratio of oil to vinegar in a vinaigrette?

What is 3 to 1?

300

What 2 flours are best for making cakes?

What are cake flour and AP flour?

400

Which Mother sauce starts with a roux and then adds stock?

What is Velouté?

400

 Braising vs stewing.

Braising  uses large cuts partially submerged in liquid while stewing uses small cuts completely submerged.

400

Define "t".

What is teaspoon?

400

How many cups are in a gallon?

What are 16?

400

What are 2 substitutions for eggs and 2 substitutions for granulated sugar?

What applesauce, yogurt, flax eggs and juice, molasses, honey...?

500

Which Mother sauce is considered a brown sauce?

What is Espagnol?

500

Name and describe the 3 mixing methods.

What is the muffin method (dry and wet ingredients combined), creaming method (fat blended into sugar until fluffy, biscuit method (fat cut into flour until crumbly)

500

Lean dough vs enriched dough.

Enriched dough is softer and richer and contains fats, sugar and dairy and need longer fermentation while lean dough is crusty and chewy and uses only flour, water, salt and yeast?

500

Arrange from smallest weight to largest weight: 1 cup of rice, 1 pound of bananas, 12 tablespoons of sugar, and .90 lbs of flour 

What is, 12 tablespoons of sugar, 1 cup of rice, .90 lbs of flour and 1 pound of bananas

500

How many times do you cook Pate Choux pastry?

What is 2 times?