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Starch Cookery

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1. Cooking Methods for Potatoes
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
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

2. Pate au choux
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
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Shoe paste

3. 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
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Use volume measurement
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

4. Deep Fried
Use volume measurement
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)
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)

5. Rice categorized by processing
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)
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Large tournee
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)

6. Rice Categories
Large tournee
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)
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

7. pommes fondant
Large tournee
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
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)

8. Cooking Rice
Large tournee
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)
Shoe paste

9. 2 Categories of Potatoes
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)
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

10. Measuring for ratio
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
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

11. Examples for mealy and Waxy
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
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)

12. Rissole
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

13. Pan-Fried
Large tournee
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
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

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

15. Cooking pasta