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Starch Cookery

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1. Cooking pasta

2. Rice Pilaf
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)
Rissole:tourneed - 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
Shoe paste

3. pommes fondant
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
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)

4. 2 Categories of Potatoes
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
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)
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried

5. 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)
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
Shoe paste
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried

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

7. Rice Categories
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Rissole:tourneed - 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

8. Examples for mealy and Waxy
Use volume measurement
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 parts liquid to 1 part rice

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

10. Pate au choux
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Shoe paste
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried

11. Rice categorized by processing
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
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Large tournee

12. Rissole
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)
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings

13. 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
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

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

15. Deep Fried
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - 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)
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter