Cooking Terms (F)

Flake Breaking food into small pieces, most often with a fork. This technique is used to break apart delicate foods such as fish or crab meat for salads. Flaking is used to test fish for doneness.

Flute/Fluting Pressing or crimping an attractive edge into the edges of a piecrust before baking, using a fork or fingers. The fluted edge should be pressed under the rim of the pan in several places to prevent shrinkage. When a top crust is used, the top and bottom crusts are pressed together to seal in the filling.

Fold Combining 1 ingredient, usually a light or delicate ingredient, with another heavier ingredient by gently turning the mixture with a spoon or spatula to minimize loss of air. Two motions are used: cutting vertically through the mixture and sliding it across the bottom of the bowl and up the other side. Typically used to mix fruit into a batter such as muffin or pancake batter.

Fry Cooking food in hot fat over moderate to high heat. Pan-frying (frying) and sautéing are similar, although sautéing is generally considered to be quicker and uses less fat. Deep-frying requires that the food be submerged in the hot fat.

Carrot Raisins Cookies

Why not let your Kids help you bake nutritious and delicious cookie. No doubt you kids will love to eat their very own homemade Cookie.

Ingredients:

1/2 C butter
1/2 C Sugar
1 c carrot shredded
3/4 C flour
pinch of salt
Some Raisins
1 egg beaten

Procedure:

1. Cream butter and sugar until well blended.
2. Add the remaining Ingredients and blend it well.
3. Sprinkle some flour in your cookie sheet
4. drop about spoonful of your Cookie mixture on the cookie sheet
5. Cook them in the oven in medium heat for about 5 minutes or until done.
6. Serve them while enjoying hot chocolate or a glass of milk.

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Cooking Term of the Week (G)

Garnish
A decorative piece of an edible ingredient such as parsley, lemon wedges, croutons, or chocolate curls placed as a finishing touch to dishes or drinks.

Glaze
A liquid that gives an item a shiny surface. Examples are fruit jams that have been heated or chocolate thinned with melted vegetable shortening. Also, to cover a food with such a liquid.

Grate
To shred or cut down a food into fine pieces by rubbing it against a rough surface.

Grease
To coat a pan or skillet with a thin layer of oil.

Grill
To cook over the heat source (traditionally over wood coals) in the open air.

Grind
To mechanically cut a food into small pieces.

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