Cooking terms

Cooking terms

1. Breading a food is covering it with bread, crackers, or cereal crumbs

2. Brushing a food is is when you cover it with liquid (like butter) using a brush

3. Dredging a food is when you cover it with dry ingredients such as flour.

4. Fluting is when you form a standing edge on a pastry (like a pie crust)

5. Marinating a food is when you soak the food in a seasoning to add flavor

   • One way to mix is to beat which is when you mix something over and over.
     • Blending is when you thoroughly combine at least 2 ingredients
       • Baking food is when you cook it in the oven
     • kneading is when you continue to press and fold dough until it is smooth and stretchy
   • Chopping food is when you cut it into very small pieces
     • To core a food is when you remove the core of a fruit
       • Dicing food is when you cut food into very small cubed pieces
         • Grating food is when you rub the food against a grater to get very small and thing pieces

6. Boiling a food is when you cook it in hot liquid (usually water) that bubbles and breaks the surface

7. Browning a food is when you make the surface of the food a brown color to toast it

8. Frying a dish is when you cook it in hot fat