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Culinary Vocabulary

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TermDefinition
Kitchen scale For measuring ingredients accurately
Measuring cups and spoons For when weight measures aren't available and for small unit measures
Hand mixer and stand mixer For creaming butter, and sugar, whipping egg whites, whipping cream, general mixing
Whisk attachment Used for really whipping a lot of air or volume
Paddle attachment Only used for really whipping a lot of air or volume
Dough hook attachment kneading used dough into the mixer.
Hand mixer attachment small hand-held kitchen tool used to blend ingredients
Rubber spatula For stirring, folding, scraping bowls to stir ingredients together
Wire whisk For whipping air into cream and eggs aerate flour, thoroughly combine dry ingredients
Mixing bowls For mixing everything!
Sheet pans or baking pans For baking cookies, scones, biscuits, sheets cakes, lining under other pans.
Sifter or Sieve For sifting flour and other dry ingredients straining custers and curds.
Oven thermometer For testing the true temperature of your oven, making adjustments to set the temperature.
Batter A batter is a unbaked mixture that is thin enough to pour or scoop, but cannot be rolled out like dough.
Dough A dough is a thick unbaked mixture that can be rolled out or shaped by hand.
Emulsion A forced mixture of two ingredients that are normally unmixable.
Gluten When the proteins found in wheat flour are hydrated they bond together forming what is referred as gluten.
Caramelizing Caramelization is when sugar goes through when it is heated and allowed to brown.
Creaming The process of beating two together forms a web of air between the fat and sugar which lightens and leaves the baked goods.
Cutting into the fat Cutting in fat refers to when pieces of solid fat, typically butter, shortening, or lard, are worked into flour and other dry ingredients.
Crimping Folding the edges of the dough in a decorative way.
Docking A pie or tart crust is docked, by pricking it all over with the fork to allow steam to exit while the crust is baking.
Ferment The process of yeast feeding on sugars and starches present in yeast dough.
Folding A technique used to incorporate two mixtures together in a very delicate way.
Knead The process we make with wheat flour is worked together.
Leaven In baking the word means the process of making baked goods rise.
Proof This means the final rise a yeast dough goes through before it is baked.
Score Refers to shallow cuts made on unbaked dough.
Sift The process of fracking flour and other dry ingredients through a fine mesh to break any lumps.
Peaks It means the stiffness of whipped cream or whipped eggs.
Soften When a recipe calls for butter to be softened the butter should be at room temp.
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