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Starch Cookery

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1. Measuring for ratio
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Shoe paste
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Use volume measurement

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

3. pommes fondant
Large tournee
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Shoe paste

4. Examples for mealy and Waxy
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
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)
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
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried

5. Cooking Methods for Potatoes
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Shoe paste

6. Cooking Rice
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
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
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

7. Boiling Potatoes
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
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

8. Pan-Fried
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
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
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Large tournee

9. Cooking pasta
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Use volume measurement
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
Shoe paste

10. Rice Pilaf
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
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
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

11. Pate au choux
Shoe paste
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
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)
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

12. 2 Categories of Potatoes
Large tournee
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
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

13. Deep Fried
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
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)
Large tournee

14. Rice Categories
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
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

15. Rice categorized by processing
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)

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