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Project: Our Global Kitchen Exhibit: Cooking Table Date: 9/19/12 thickens. Season to taste. Recipe Add salt and pepper, whisk. -‐-‐-‐ Fixing a Broken Sauce If you add the fat too fast, the water and fat will Content -‐-‐ Click on button to move to next step. stop mixing and break apart. To fix a “broken sauce,” throw an ice cube into the mixture and whisk around it. Simmer! Action Button 3 2 inches of water Recipe Bring a new pot filled with water, -‐-‐-‐ turn on the heat. + 1 Tbsp. vinegar Recipe Add a swig of vinegar to the pot. -‐-‐-‐ Vinegar and Eggs Many chefs mix vinegar into the water when poaching an egg. The vinegar reacts with the egg white, helping it retain its shape better. But it can also cause a film to form around the egg xv Bring to a simmer. Content -‐-‐-‐ Click on button to proceed to next step. Poach! Action Button 4 very fresh eggs Recipe Crack an egg into a ramekin salt soft simmer Recipe Slide egg into the water. Slowly slide egg. Cook until Recipe Cook egg. still wobbly. 5-‐6 minutes. Egg Temperature The proteins in eggs are very sensitive to Content -‐-‐-‐ Click on button to proceed to next step. temperature—the difference one or two degrees can change the texture of a cooked egg. At 145.4 ˚F (63 ˚C) a poached egg has a runny yolk. If the egg reaches 149 ˚F (65 ˚C), the yolk becomes a soft solid xvi . Plate! Action Button 5 -‐-‐ -‐-‐ Set table. Remove egg with a slotted spoon. Serve over toast. -‐-‐
Project: Our Global Kitchen Exhibit: Cooking Table Date: 9/19/12 Hollandaise sauce Recipe Spoon hollandaise over egg. Add pepper. The Five “Mother Sauces” In the 1800s, a chef named Marie-‐Antoine Content Click on button to proceed to next step. Careme developed the basis for much of modern professional cooking xvii . One important contribution was to systematize the five sauces on which hundreds of others are based. Two of those sauces, hollandaise and mayonnaise, use egg yolks as a thickener xviii . Clean up! Action Button Clear table. -‐-‐
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