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Starch Cookery

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1. Rice Pilaf
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
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
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. Deep Fried
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
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

3. 2 Categories of Potatoes
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)
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

4. Cooking Methods for Potatoes
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
Large tournee

5. pommes fondant
Large tournee
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

6. Examples for mealy and Waxy
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
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

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

8. Cooking Rice
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
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice

9. Cooking pasta

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10. 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
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)
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

11. Pate au choux
Use volume measurement
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
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times

12. Rice categorized by processing
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Shoe paste
1 gallon rapidly boiling water to 1 # pasta - make sure there's enought water so that there's the least recovery times

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

14. Measuring for ratio
Use volume measurement
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Large tournee

15. Rice Categories
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
In the skin - jacket potatoes - in stock - pommes fondant - duchess (add yolk and pipe)