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Starch Cookery

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1. Pan-Fried
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
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

2. Examples for mealy and Waxy
Large tournee
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
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

3. Pate au choux
Large tournee
Use volume measurement
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)

4. Boiling Potatoes
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Large tournee
Shoe paste

5. Rice categorized by processing
Use volume measurement
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
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

6. 2 Categories of Potatoes
Use volume measurement
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
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

7. Rissole
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
3 parts liquid to 1 part 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
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

8. Rice Pilaf
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

9. Rice Categories
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
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

10. Cooking pasta

11. 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
Use volume measurement
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice

12. 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)
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

13. pommes fondant
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Large tournee
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings

14. 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
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

15. Measuring for ratio
Shoe paste
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Use volume measurement