Cooking Plain, Illinois Country Style

Glossary of Cooking Terms

Baste Beat Blend Bouquet gami Braise Chop Cobbler Combine Cracklings Cream Croutons Curds Dice Dip Dot Draw Dredge Dress Drippings Glossary of Cooking Terms To moisten meat, fowl, or other dish while baking, with juices from pan or other liquids. To mix thoroughly by rapid rotary motion. \ To mix two or more ingredients until well combined. A bunch of parsley, onions, bay leaf, and thyme, tied together and used in soups. To cook meat by searing, then simmering in covered pan in small amount of liquid. To cut into pieces. A deep layer of fruit covered with biscuit dough or pastry. To mix two or more ingredients. The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork. To work shortening until it attains the consistency of heavy cream. Small cubes of bread toasted or fried; used for garnishing dishes or in soup. The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from whey, or watery part. To cut into tiny cubes. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon-such as sweetened cream, served with puddings, etc. To place small pieces of butter, cheese, etc., over the surface of food, usually to be baked. To extract the bowels of, eviscerate-as, to draw a fowl. To coat with flour or sugar. To prepare for cooking-as, to dress a fowl. Liquid and small particles of meat remaining in pan in which meat or poultry has been cooked. 267 268 Glossary Fillet Cut portions of boneless or boned fish or meat. Fold in To add beaten egg or whipped cream to another mixture and blend in lightly with an over-and-over motion. Giblets The liver, gizzard, and heart of poultry and wild birds. Glaze To coat with diluted fruit jelly or a sugar syrup that has been cooked to candy stage. Grind To reduce meat or vegetables to tiny pieces by putting through food chopper. Infuse To extract.liquid from herbs, coffee, tea, etc. Knead To work dough by stretching, pressing with hands, and folding it over and over on itself. Lard To place strips of fat bacon or salt pork on top of lean meat. Marinade A mixture of vinegar, spices, oil, and herbs in which meat or other food is allowed to stand to attain tenderness and flavor. Marinate To soak meat or other food in vinegar, lemon juice, spices, etc. Mince To chop very fine with a knife. Mix To combine by stirring or beating. Panbroil To cook meat in a skillet without grease, pouring off fat as it accumulates . . Parboil To boil food until partially cooked. Pepper vinegar Press Puree Render Roux Samp Saute Scald A mixture of tiny red hot peppers, vinegar, salt, and spices, used as a condiment. To squeeze so as to extract juice or contents of fruit, grapes, etc. To press fruit or vegetables through a sieve, ricer, etc.; a soup made with the pulp to which cream or stock has been added; also the pulp of fruit or vegetables. To separate fat from connective tissue by heating slowly so that the fat melts and can be drained off. A cooked mixture of flour and butter used to thicken soups and sauces. An Indian term for coarse hominy. To cook on top of stove in a very small amount of fat. To heat liquid to just below the boiling point. Or, to immerse fowls to be plucked in boiling water, for a short time, to loosen feathers. Shred Simmer Skewer Sliver Sponge Steam Stew Stir Stock Truss Try out Whey Whip Glossary 269 To cut into very fine strips or slices. To cook in liquid just below the boiling point. To fasten meat, fowl, fish, with pins of wood or metal to hold it in shape while cooking. To cut into lengths. Dough after it has been raised or converted into a light, porous mass by yeast or leaven. To cook with heat of boiling water in a steamer or double boiler. To cook very gently and slowly in liquid. To blend ingredients with a spoon or other utensil, using a circular motion. The liquid from cooking meat, fish, or vegetables. To fasten with a skewer--as, a fowl's wings to its body. To heat meat slowly until fat is liquid. Used most often in connection with making lard. The liquid separated from the solid part of milk after it sours. To beat rapidly...