Cooking Facts and Tips

  1 ounce contains approximately 28 grammes of product.

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  Ancient Slavs believed, that “foremother” of bread was a porridge, and explained it as follows. Somehow the ancient cook were preparing a porridge and casually filled groats more, than it was necessary. Instead of a porridge the flat cake has turned out. Having abused as follows the careless cook, nevertheless neighbours have tasted a new dish. And probably, have been happy. In due course instead of groats they began to use flour.

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  Arabs had a custom: if the man refused to prepare coffee for his wife, it was a hint on fast divorce.

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  Bay leaf, pepper, caraway seeds are added to a dish 10-15 minutes before the dish is ready.

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  Beet, carrots and potato should be cooked separately.

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  Boiled vegetables contain the same quantity of vitamin A, as crude vegetables.

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  By the French tradition, on the cook cap there should be 100 folds, it is equal the quantity of ways of egg preparation, which each good cook should now.

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  Capers, used in food concern to prickly capers. They represent vegetable culture, flower buds and fruits of which contain protein oils and vitamins. They are widespread in Europe, Northern Africa, Northern America and India.

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  Classification of pies and cakes is carried out by the baked semifinished item which is a part of the product. Pies can be: biscuit, short pastry, puff, pastry filled with custard, nut, from bitted egg whites, sugar, crumbled, wafer and combined. Almost all of them incorporate sugar, flour and eggs, and at honey pies there is a honey. Except of the basic components, everything can be in a pie: oil, butter, sour cream, nuts, fruit, alcohol (cognac, wine), spices and other.

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  Cold cereals are rich in cellulose, vitamins and many minerals (e.g. ferrum).

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  Contrary to the developed stereotype, sweeties are not so harmful in the beginning of a meal. As some dieticians consider, the pie or a cake can be a kind of an antiaperitif calming the “wolf” appetite. All depends on that, how much you are hungry. If you have missed last meal, begin the present meal with several segments of chocolate, a pair of sweets, a pie slice, several spoons of jam or ice-cream. It will accelerate saturation of blood by glucose; consequently it will reduce feeling of famine and will save you from overeating.

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  Cooked vegetables (except cauliflower) should not be kept in broth.

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  Country cottage cheese is one of the most useful products for your heart health for it contains little fat and much calcium and protein.

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  Cranberry contains huge amount of benzoic acid — a commonly used preservative.

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  Dishes strongly seasoned by vinegar dull sensitivity of language, its ability to distinguish sour, bitter, salty and sweet tastes.

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