FOODS Flashcards
Roux
Cooking equal parts of flour and fat
Beurre Manie
Uncooked butter and flour mixed in equal parts to form a soft paste
Ovalbumin
Largest protein content in egg white
Bisque
thick soup - fish stock, thickened with rice
Buttermilk
Fluid left after cream is churned to make butter ( little to fat content)
Half and half
10-18% milk fat; for cereals
Light cream/ coffee cream/ table cream
18-30% MF; for coffee
Medium cream/ whipping cream
30-36% MF
Heavy cream
36-40% MF; for salad dressings
True solution
dispersion with smallest particle size
Tahure
fermented soybean cake but softer than tokwa
Honey/ pulut pukyutan
invert sugar, contains fructose at greatest %
Turrones de Kasuy
Nougat-like from San Miguel, Bulacan and Sta Rita Pampanga; example of divinity
Divinity
light airy crystalline candy; a large amount of egg white is added to the syrup while still very hot
Myotome
layers of short fish muscle fibers, separated by large sheets of very thin connective tissues (mycommata)
Conventional method of mixing flour
shortening is creamed thoroughly before gradual addition of sugar and beating vigorously to aerate; for BUTTER and POUND CAKE
Maja Blanca
also coconut pudding; made from coconut milk, cornstarch or gelatin, corn kernels, milk, and sugar
Mold
microorganisms used for cheese ripening
Psychotrophs
microorgs that can survive cold/chill temperature (refrigeration)
Brix
1 gram of sucrose in 100 grams of solution and represents the strength of the solution as percentage by mass.
Hydrolysis
occurs during cooking or processing where the glycosidic bonds joining glucose molecules of starch are broken
Kelp
A seaweed used to process MSG