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Starch Cookery

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1. Boiling Potatoes
Shoe paste
Large tournee
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings

2. Pate au choux
Use volume measurement
Shoe paste
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

3. Rice Categories
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)

4. Measuring for ratio
Shoe paste
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
Use volume measurement

5. Cooking Rice
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
Shoe paste
Use volume measurement
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice

6. Deep Fried
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
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)
Shoe paste
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)

7. Pan-Fried
Rissole:tourneed - 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)
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)

8. Rissole
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

9. 2 Categories of Potatoes
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
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Shoe paste

10. pommes fondant
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Large tournee
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

11. Examples for mealy and Waxy
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice

12. Rice Pilaf
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
Use volume measurement
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
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

13. Rice categorized by processing
Shoe paste
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)
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice

14. Cooking Methods for Potatoes
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
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
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried

15. Cooking pasta
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
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

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