Cooking

Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Scald

Culinary arts; Cooking

To heat a liquid, often milk, to a temperature just below the boiling point, when tiny bubbles just begin to appear around the edge of the liquid.

Frost

Culinary arts; Cooking

To apply a cooked or uncooked topping, which is soft enough to spread but stiff enough to hold its shape, to cakes, cupcakes, or cookies.

Crush

Culinary arts; Cooking

To smash food into smaller pieces, generally using hands, a mortar and pestle, or a rolling pin. Crushing dried herbs releases their flavour and aroma.

Brown

Culinary arts; Cooking

To cook a food in a skillet, broiler, or oven to add flavour and aroma and develop a rich, desirable colour on the outside and moistness on the inside.

Tamarind paste

Culinary arts; Cooking

A thick, tart, brown Asian flavouring that comes from the fruit of a tamarind tree.

The word gumbo is from an African word meaning "okra. " This creole stew contains okra, tomatoes, and onions as well as various meats or shellfish such as shrimp, chicken, or sausage. It is thickened ...