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Starch Cookery

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1. Cooking pasta

2. 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)
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice

3. Cooking Methods for Potatoes
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)
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
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

4. Rissole
Shoe paste
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
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

5. Rice Categories
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Use volume measurement
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

6. Pate au choux
Use volume measurement
Shoe paste
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)

7. Boiling Potatoes
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Large tournee
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)

8. Pan-Fried
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

9. Rice Pilaf
Large tournee
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
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)

10. Examples for mealy and Waxy
Shoe paste
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
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

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

12. Cooking Rice
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried

13. Rice categorized by processing
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
Shoe paste
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)

14. 2 Categories of Potatoes
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - 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

15. pommes fondant
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Use volume measurement
Large tournee