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Starch Cookery

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1. Cooking Methods for Potatoes
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
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times

2. pommes fondant
Use volume measurement
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
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

3. Rice categorized by processing
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
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
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

4. Rice Categories
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
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings

5. Pate au choux
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
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
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings

6. 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
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
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

7. Deep 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)
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
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

8. 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
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

9. Rissole
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
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings

10. Cooking pasta

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11. Examples for mealy and Waxy
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
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
Use volume measurement

12. 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
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

13. Boiling Potatoes
Rissole:tourneed - 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)
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried

14. 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
Large tournee

15. Measuring for ratio
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Large tournee
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Use volume measurement