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Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Bing cherry

Culinary arts; Cooking

A very large, delicious cherry that ranges in colour from a deep garnet to almost black. The skin is smooth and glossy and the flesh firm and sweet. Bing cherries are good for cooking as well as ...

Aspartame

Culinary arts; Cooking

An artificial sweetener that's 180-200 times sweeter than sugar. It's synthesised from two amino acids (aspartic acid and phenylalanine), the building blocks of protein, and contains about 4 ...

Cornbread

Culinary arts; Cooking

An all-American quick bread that substitutes cornmeal for most (or sometimes all) of the flour. It can include various flavourings such as cheese, scallions, molasses and bacon. Cornbread can be ...

An Asian dish of rice that has been cooked and refrigerated for a day before being fried with other ingredients, such as small pieces of meat and vegetables, and seasonings such as soy sauce. An egg ...

Cambric tea

Culinary arts; Cooking

An American term used to describe a hot drink of milk, water, sugar and, if desired, a dash of tea. It was a favourite of children and the elderly in the late 19th and early 20th century. The name ...

Calf's foot jelly

Culinary arts; Cooking

An aspic made by boiling calves' feet until the natural gelatin is extracted. The liquid is strained, then combined with wine, lemon juice and spices and refrigerated until set. If sugar is added, ...

Candied apple

Culinary arts; Cooking

An apple that's coated with a cinnamon-flavored red sugar syrup. This candy coating can either be crackly-hard or soft and gooey. A candied-apple clone is the caramel apple, which has a thick, soft ...