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Cooking Facts and Tips

Cooking Facts and Tips

Collection of interesting culinary and cooking facts and tips. Got your own tips or advice? Share with us!
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  Never eat herring or cucumber with whisky!
  Orange color of meal gives vivacity. It is proved, that not only vitamin containing, but even the dish color influences person health and mood. For example, carrots, oranges, sea-buckthorn berries, peaches, apricots and melons, fill us with energy, strengthen immune system and improve blood circulation.
  Peeled and cut apples will not darken, if put them for some minutes in slightly acid water.
  Pineapple or kivi are not recommended to be used in jelly, because they contain the substances interfering solidification of gelatin.
  Plunging hard-cooked eggs into cold water helps keep the yolk from turning green. Quickly plunge the cooked eggs into cold water to stop the cooking process.
  Preserved in oil dried tomatoes for the first time appeared in the south of Italy, and now you can can meet them almost all over the world. For conservation cut tomatoes, salt them and dry under the sun. Then pour over dried tomatoes with vegetable oil with spices.
  Red wine is good combined with “dark” meat (mutton, beef, pork, game, duck and rabbit).
  Rice is the basic food culture approximately for half of globe population.
  Simmering is a cooking in a small amount of a liquid, just below a boiling point.
  Simmering makes products more gentle and allows to keep nutritious and flavouring substances.
  Soft margarine is richer in polynonsaturated fats and is more favorable for health than butter or hard margarines.
  Taste and flavor of a salad will be more sharp if befor serving put a lemon peel in it for a while.
  Taste and smell of salad will be more sharp if before serving rub the salad dish with garlic.
  The flower chrysanthemum is edible in both in China and Japan, where it is considered as a sacred plant. Its petals go into the preparation of sophisticated desserts. The Japanese value the medicinal properties of the flower’s bitter varieties. The chrysanthemum is rich in B vitamins, ascorbic acid, mineral salts, and protein.
  The refined decoration for cold dishes, desserts, soft drinks — are ice cubes with flowers: spread out flowers of St.-John’s worth, lindens, currants, guelder-roses, leaves of mint in ice forms, fill them with warm boiled water and freeze.
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Well baked pie should be well whisked. It should have a characteristic consistence and correspond to such qualitative parameters: at biscuit — small pores, elastic structure, golden-yellow color with a brown shade; at sand — consistence slightly crumbled and breaking up at mechanical influence, yellow or light brown color; at puff — thin lamination, color — from light-cream up to brown; at baked pastry — an elastic-elastic consistence.
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