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Starch Cookery

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1. Cooking pasta

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

3. Rissole
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
Shoe paste
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

4. Rice Pilaf
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
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

5. 2 Categories of Potatoes
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
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
Large tournee

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

7. Rice Categories
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Use volume measurement
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried

8. Pate au choux
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
Shoe paste

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

10. Rice categorized by processing
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
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)

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

12. Deep Fried
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)
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times

13. Measuring for ratio
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Use volume measurement
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter

14. Examples for mealy and Waxy
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
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

15. Cooking Methods for Potatoes
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Shoe paste
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings