Cooks Terms
A Glossary of Cooking Terms
When you first start cooking and reading recipes, you may find some words known as cooks terms that you may not recognise know what they mean.On this page you will find a list of cooking terms that will help you and your kids when cooking together.
Baking To Cook Food in the Oven.
Beating To soften an ingredient or mix it with another ingredient, usually using a wooden spoon or a fork.
Chopping To cut food into tiny pieces.
Chunks Pieces of food that are larger pieces then diced food (See Dicing).
Creaming To beat butter or margarine together with sugar using a wooden spoon of electric whisk until light and fluffy and very smooth.
Decorating To finish off the top of a cake or cookies attractively.
Dicing
To cut food into small cubes about the size of your fingernail.
Draining To pour off the liquid from food through a sieve or colander.
Drizzling To spoon wiggly scribble-like lines of icing or melted chocolate over the top of a baked cake or cookies, or to sprinkle a little oil over bread dough before cooking.
Folding In To mix ingredients together with a very gentle stirring action to keep the air in the mixture, for example when mixing in whipped cream for a filling,or folding flour into a cake mixture.
Grating To make ting pieces, by rubbing an ingredient such as an orange, lemon, lime or block of cheese against a grater.
Greasing To coat a cooking utensil such as a cake pan with a little cooking oil or softened butter, to prevent food from sticking during cooking.
Grilling This is a form of cooking that involves dry heat applied to the surface of the food from either above or below.
Kneading To smooth the outside of a dough when making shortbread cookies, scones, pastry and bread.
Lining To put greaseproof or nonstick baking paper into the base or the base and sides of a cake tin so that the cake does not stick when cooked.
Sieving / Sifting To remove lumps from dry ingredients such as flour,cocoa powder,brown sugar & icing sugar by pressing or shaking through a fine mesh sieve.
Simmering To cook liquid in a saucepan over a gentle heat so that bubbles just break the surface.
Squeezing To press the juice from a lemon, lime or orange, using a lemon squeezer.
Whisking / Whipping To beat air into ingredients such as egg whites, whole eggs and sugar, or cream (whipping) using a balloon, rotary or electric whisk, until they become very thick.
As often as I can I will update this page with more cooks terms.
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