22 TermsHome > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Blanch
Blanch
To partially cook fruits, vegetables, or nuts in boiling water or steam to intensify and set colour and flavor. This is an important step in preparing fruits and vegetables for freezing. Blanching also helps loosen skins from tomatoes, peaches, and almonds.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: verb
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Culinary arts
- Category: Cooking
- Company: Better Homes and Gardens
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Arts & crafts Category: Modern art
Omnigraph
The object responsible for the transformation of ideas into tangible reality. Originating from the latin term "omni" (meaning 'everything') ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Browers Terms By Category
- Cardboard boxes(1)
- Wrapping paper(1)
Paper packaging(2) Terms
- Festivals(20)
- Religious holidays(17)
- National holidays(9)
- Observances(6)
- Unofficial holidays(6)
- International holidays(5)
Holiday(68) Terms
- Material physics(1710)
- Metallurgy(891)
- Corrosion engineering(646)
- Magnetics(82)
- Impact testing(1)
Materials science(3330) Terms
- Home theatre system(386)
- Television(289)
- Amplifier(190)
- Digital camera(164)
- Digital photo frame(27)
- Radio(7)
Consumer electronics(1079) Terms
- Automobile(10466)
- Motorcycles(899)
- Automotive paint(373)
- Tires(268)
- Vehicle equipment(180)
- Auto parts(166)