Kiddo's Cooking Terms

To Beat: To mix hard with a whisk, spoon, or and electric mixer until smooth.

To Boil : is to have quite a high head until lots of bubbles are forming on the surface of the liquid

To Cool:is to lower the temperature of the cooked food so that it becomes suitable for eating, cooling is needed for setting jellies, freezing ice creams and cooling fresh baked bread

To Chop: To cut something into smaller pieces. To finely chop is to cut really small or thin pieces.

To Core: Removing the stem and seeds from the fruit or vegetable like apples

To Drizzle: To pour a thin mixture, such as melted butter or thin icing, over food in a very fine stream.

To Grease: Cover the bottom and sides of your baking dish with greasing olive oil,shortening or vegetable oil. Often it is helpful to drop a little bit onto a kitchen towel then apply to your surface. The absorbent kitchen towel helps not to over grease

To Knead: To mix a dough with our hands or an electric food mixer. When using your hands push the dough down and away from you squeezing with your hands and turn it over .This kneading is repeated several times until the dough has the required consistency.

To Simmer: To cook over a very low flame. The liquid should have small bubbles coming gently to the surface but not boil

To Stand: After a certain cooking period has expired leaving the food to simply stand( mostly covered up and in a warm place)can either make a dough rise,or collect the juices inside a roast meat dish to be really juicy