Dan the Gardener information on cooking phrases
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What do all these cooking words mean?

  • Bake: to cook in an oven.
  • Batter: a mixture of liquid, flour and other ingredients that can vary in thickness often used to batter food like onion rings.
  • Boil: to cook a liquid in a saucepan usually on the stove until bubbles rise.
  • Chill: to refrigerate until cold.

  • Chop: to cut food into small pieces.
  • Combine: mixing two or more ingredients together.
  • Cream: beat together butter and sugar with a wooden spoon until a creamy mixture.
  • Cut in: to combine solid fat with dry ingredients using a knife then the mixture is gently rubbed together by hand, usually pastry.

  • Drain: to strain away unwanted liquid.
  • Fold: to gently mix ingredients by using a spatula and moving food from centre and lifting towards edge of bowl turning bowl as you go.
  • Garnish: to decorate food with items like sliced fruit or herbs.
  • Grease: to rub the inside of baking pans with butter, margarine or baking sprays to stop it from sticking.

  • Knead: to work dough firmly by pressing and folding with the palms of your hands usually done on a flat surface.
  • Let it rest: to let baked goods cool down on a wire rack wile it's still baking.
  • Marinade: a mixture in which you soak meat or fish (usually overnight in the fridge) before cooking it making it tender plus giving it lots of flavour.
  • Mash: to mash foods with a fork or potato masher.

  • Melt: to heat a solid food until it turns to liquid.
  • Preheat: to prepare oven to correct temperature prior to baking.
  • Roll out: to lightly roll dough with a rolling pin to required thickness.
  • Rub in: to mix fat with flour or sugar using fingers until mixture has the texture of breadcrumbs.

  • Scrape: to use a bendy spatula to remove as much of the mixture as possible from a bowl or saucepan.
  • Seal: to seal the outside of food like sealing meat in a frying pan.
  • Season: adding salt, pepper or herbs to food giving it more flavour.
  • Simmer: to cook liquids over very low heat just bubbling but not boiling.

  • Sieve: to remove lumps from flour or icing sugar by pushing through a sieve.
  • Toss: to mix salad ingredients lightly in a bowl.
  • Whisk: to mix two or more ingredients together vigorously.
 
 

 
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