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DEFINE: BAIN-MARIE
Noun, ban-mah-rie
Bain-marie is a pan or container with hot water which you place a cooking container in, to allow for slow cooking or keeping warm. When used in the oven, you place the baking pan inside of another pan and pour in about 1 inch of water before baking in the oven. Another example of bain-marie is the use of a double boiler where you place a pot with water on the stove on low heat with a bowl inside of it, making sure it does not touch the water. This is used to melt chocolate and cook egg-based custard for ice cream.
What is Baking Powder.
Noun, b-ei-k-ing p-ow-der.
Baking Powder is a leavening agent that contains sodium bicarbonate AND 2 acid other components. One reacts with the sodium bicarbonate when it's wet, while the other reacts when it is wet and hot. So as the batter bakes, it causes more leavening as the reactions occur.
What is Baking soda
Noun, b-ei-k-ing s-o-da.
Baking soda or sodium bicarbonate is basically that one component. it is a leavening agent which, when added to your ingredients that contain some sort of acid, a reaction takes place which produces carbon dioxide. This is the gas which results in the rising of you batter.
Define: Boojay
Verb, boo-jay, boo-jay-ing.
Use in a sentence: " The duck has to boojay properly!"
A technique of cooking meat which develops a rich flavour. After the meat has started cooking in a pot, it springs a certain amount of liquid. After this liquid has dried up, reduce the heat to low, and keep turning the meat at 5-minute intervals, and scraping up anything that becomes stuck to the pot. Continue this technique for about 15-20 minutes before adding water to deglaze the pot to continue cooking.