Glossary

Potato Starch

Potato Starch is used for thickening and coating meat or fish before frying. European cooking would use cornflour, cream or egg yolk. Arrowroot, tapioca starch or cornflour can be substitute.

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Cooking dried beans or pulses

When cooking dried beans or pulses, don't add salt until they are tender. Salt toughens the skins and lengthens the cooking time.

Glossary

Oxidized

Describing wine or other food that has been in contact with air too long, causing it to darken and smell stale.

 
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