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Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Nonfat dry milk powder

Culinary arts; Cooking

When reconstituted, this milk product can be used in cooking.

Marinade

Culinary arts; Cooking

A seasoned liquid in which meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, or vegetables are soaked to flavour and sometimes tenderise them. Most marinades contain an acid, such as wine or vinegar.

Vinegar

Culinary arts; Cooking

A sour liquid that is a byproduct of fermentation. Through fermentation the alcohol from grapes, grains, apples, and other sources is changed to acetic acid to create vinegar.

Pastry flour

Culinary arts; Cooking

A soft wheat blend with less starch than cake flour. It is used for making pastry.

Snip

Culinary arts; Cooking

To cut food, often fresh herbs or dried fruit, with kitchen shears or scissors into very small, uniform pieces using short, quick strokes.

Yeast

Culinary arts; Cooking

A tiny, single-celled organism that feeds on the sugar in dough, creating carbon dioxide gas that makes dough rise.

Chop

Culinary arts; Cooking

To cut foods with a knife, cleaver, or food processor into smaller pieces.

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