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Starch Cookery

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1. Examples for mealy and Waxy
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

2. Rissole
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

3. Rice Categories
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
From a pureed appariel (mixture) - Croquette - Dauphine: appariel with pate au choux (shoe paste) - From raw: pommes frits - Pont Neuf - Pomme paille (shoe string) - Cottage fries (rondelle cut)
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

4. Pate au choux
Use volume measurement
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Mealy (Starchy) high starch content - low sugar - bakers - good for deep frying - fluffy - thick skin - Waxy low starch content - best for boiling - roasted - thin skin
Shoe paste

5. Cooking Rice
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Large tournee
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings

6. Pan-Fried
From a pureed appariel (mixture) - Croquette - Dauphine: appariel with pate au choux (shoe paste) - From raw: pommes frits - Pont Neuf - Pomme paille (shoe string) - Cottage fries (rondelle cut)
Mealy (Starchy) high starch content - low sugar - bakers - good for deep frying - fluffy - thick skin - Waxy low starch content - best for boiling - roasted - thin skin
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

7. Rice Pilaf
Mealy (Starchy) high starch content - low sugar - bakers - good for deep frying - fluffy - thick skin - Waxy low starch content - best for boiling - roasted - thin skin
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
2 parts liquid to 1 part rice by volume - heat fat - sweat aromats - add rice and coat grains with fat - add hot stock - simmer - cover and place in oven at 375 for 20-30 minutes or until all the liquid is absorbed and tender - fluff with fork
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)

8. 2 Categories of Potatoes
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
Mealy (Starchy) high starch content - low sugar - bakers - good for deep frying - fluffy - thick skin - Waxy low starch content - best for boiling - roasted - thin skin
Large tournee
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

9. Boiling Potatoes
Use volume measurement
From a pureed appariel (mixture) - Croquette - Dauphine: appariel with pate au choux (shoe paste) - From raw: pommes frits - Pont Neuf - Pomme paille (shoe string) - Cottage fries (rondelle cut)
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)

10. Cooking pasta
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Use volume measurement
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

11. Measuring for ratio
2 parts liquid to 1 part rice by volume - heat fat - sweat aromats - add rice and coat grains with fat - add hot stock - simmer - cover and place in oven at 375 for 20-30 minutes or until all the liquid is absorbed and tender - fluff with fork
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Use volume measurement
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice

12. pommes fondant
Shoe paste
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
2 parts liquid to 1 part rice by volume - heat fat - sweat aromats - add rice and coat grains with fat - add hot stock - simmer - cover and place in oven at 375 for 20-30 minutes or until all the liquid is absorbed and tender - fluff with fork
Large tournee

13. Rice categorized by processing
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
2 parts liquid to 1 part rice by volume - heat fat - sweat aromats - add rice and coat grains with fat - add hot stock - simmer - cover and place in oven at 375 for 20-30 minutes or until all the liquid is absorbed and tender - fluff with fork
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Large tournee

14. Cooking Methods for Potatoes
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice

15. Deep Fried
From a pureed appariel (mixture) - Croquette - Dauphine: appariel with pate au choux (shoe paste) - From raw: pommes frits - Pont Neuf - Pomme paille (shoe string) - Cottage fries (rondelle cut)
Mealy (Starchy) high starch content - low sugar - bakers - good for deep frying - fluffy - thick skin - Waxy low starch content - best for boiling - roasted - thin skin
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Use volume measurement

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