Cooking

Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

Industry: Culinary arts

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Dissolve

Culinary arts; Cooking

To stir a solid food and a liquid food together to form a mixture in which none of the solid remains. In some cases, heat may be needed in order for the solid to dissolve.

Fat-free half-and-half

Culinary arts; Cooking

Made mostly from skim milk, with carrageenan for body, this product can bring a creamy flavour to recipes without added fat. Experiment using it in cornstarch or flour-thickened soup, sauce, and ...

Drizzle

Culinary arts; Cooking

To randomly pour a liquid, such as powdered sugar icing, in a thin stream over food.

Breading

Culinary arts; Cooking

A coating of crumbs, sometimes seasoned, on meat, fish, poultry, and vegetables. Breading is often made with soft or dry bread crumbs.

Carve

Culinary arts; Cooking

To cut or slice cooked meat, poultry, fish, or game into serving-size pieces.

Light cream

Culinary arts; Cooking

Also called coffee or table cream. It usually contains about 20 percent milk fat and cannot be whipped.

Jelly roll

Culinary arts; Cooking

Dessert made by spreading a filling on a sponge cake and rolling it up into a log shape. When other foods are shaped "jelly-roll-style," it refers to rolling them into a log shape with fillings ...