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Starch Cookery

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1. 2 Categories of Potatoes
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
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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 (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. Cooking Methods for Potatoes
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
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
Large tournee
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice

3. Rissole
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Lightly golden brown in clarified butter
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4. 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)
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
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

5. Pan-Fried
Large tournee
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
Rissole:tourneed - 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

6. Cooking pasta

7. Measuring for ratio
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)
Use volume measurement
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

8. Rice Categories
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
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain

9. Cooking Rice
3 parts liquid to 1 part rice
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Shoe paste
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)

10. Rice Pilaf
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
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

11. pommes fondant
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
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)

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

13. Pate au choux
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Categorized by seed size: long (rice pilaf) - medium (risotto) - short grain
Shoe paste
Brown rice (bran intact) - white rice (bran polished) - converted rice (grains are fluffy - seperated - not sticky - most popular)

14. Examples for mealy and Waxy
Mealy: french fries - russet - Waxy: Fingerlings
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
Rissole:tourneed - lightly golden brown in clarified butter

15. Rice categorized by processing
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
Boiling - pureed - duchess - deep fried - raw - pan-fried
Large tournee