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Starch Cookery

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1. Measuring for ratio
Use volume measurement
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Shoe paste

2. Deep Fried
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
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)
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice

3. Cooking Methods for Potatoes
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
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)

4. Rissole
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
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
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

5. pommes fondant
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
Large tournee
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried

6. Rice categorized by processing
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Use volume measurement
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

7. Cooking Rice
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings

8. Examples for mealy and Waxy
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)
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings

9. 2 Categories of Potatoes
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
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
Use volume measurement
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)

10. Cooking pasta
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

11. Pan-Fried
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Large tournee
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

12. Rice Categories
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
Shoe paste
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

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

14. Rice Pilaf
Shoe paste
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
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

15. Pate au choux
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
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings

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