Blend: Combine ingredients until smooth and uniform in flavor, texture, and color.
Boil: Cook food in a liquid and get it hot enough so there are bubbles rising all over and breaking at the surface.
Carve: 1. Cut or slice cooked meat, poultry, fish, or game, into serving-sized pieces. 2. Cut a design into PZ Kut or other carving rubber to form a stamp.
Chop: Even smaller than diced, and don’t worry about what shape it is.
Chop Finely: Smaller than “chop”.
Cream: Mash the sugars and butter or shortening together with a mixer or the back of a spoon. The idea is to add air to the mixture, and make the other ingredients mix in better.
Cube: Cut into square pieces approximately 1/2” on each side.
Dice: Cut into square pieces approximately 1/4 - 1/8” on each side.
Fold: Gently stir ingredients together with a rubber spatula so the whipped ingredient doesn’t collapse.
Full Boil: See “Rolling Boil”.
Mince: About the same as “chop finely”.
Mix: Stir ingredients together until they are thoroughly combined.
Pare: Peel the skin off a fruit or vegetable.
Puree: Process or mash a food until it is as smooth as possible; turn it into baby food, basically.
Rolling Boil: Boiling fast enough that the bubbles don’t go away when you stir it.
Sautee: Cook same size pieces of food in a little oil in the bottom of an uncovered frying pan, with fairly high heat.
Sift: Put the ingredients through a sifter to remove lumps and add air.
Simmer: Cook food in liquid as hot as you can get it without it actually boiling. There may be a few small, random bubbles.
Slice: 1. Cut food into flat, thin pieces. 2. Miss the PZ Kut while carving, and cut your finger.