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Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Brie

Culinary arts; Cooking

A soft, creamy cheese with an edible white rind. Brie from France is considered to be the best in the world.

Springform pan

Culinary arts; Cooking

A round pan with high sides and a removable bottom. The bottom is removed by releasing a spring that holds the sides tight around it. This makes it easy to remove food from the pan.

Mortar and pestle

Culinary arts; Cooking

A set that includes a bowl-shape vessel (the mortar) to hold ingredients to be crushed by a club-shape utensil (the pestle).

This product is made with whole milk that has had water removed and sugar added. It is also available in low-fat and fat-free versions. Sweetened condensed milk is not interchangeable with evaporated ...

Puff pastry

Culinary arts; Cooking

A butter-rich, multilayered pastry. When baked, the butter produces steam between the layers, causing the dough to puff up into many flaky layers. Because warm, softened puff pastry dough becomes ...

Whole, low-fat or light, reduced-fat, and fat-free milk

Culinary arts; Cooking

Because these milk types differ only in the amount of fat they contain and in the richness of flavour they lend to foods, they may be used interchangeably in cooking. Recipes in this cookbook were ...

Tamari

Culinary arts; Cooking

A dark, thin sauce made from soybeans. Tamari is a slightly thicker, mellower cousin of soy sauce and is used to flavour Asian dishes. In a pinch, substitute soy sauce.