Using a Recipe and Types of Recipes

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Using a Recipeand Types of Recipes

• Culinary Basics
• LSHS

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What is a good recipe?

• It gives clear, simple directions.
• It gives the time and temperature for baking or
  cooking.
• It has been tested.
• It describes the dish clearly.
• It uses exact measurements.
• It gives the number it will serve.

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How do you use a recipe?

• Read recipe carefully and plan each step before
  starting to work.
• Get your ingredients together first and collect
  all utensils needed.
• Learn to measure accurately. Measure dry
  ingredients first, then liquids, then fats, and
  you will need only one cup or spoon.

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How do you use a recipe? (Continued)

• Keep working space cleaned and cooking dishes
  washed as you work.
• Form good work habits in order to save time,
  energy, and materials.
• Have the recipe in a place where it can be read
  easily, but will not be soiled.

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Recipes go wrong when

• You fail to read the whole recipe first.
• You measure inaccurately.
• You misread terms, temperature, or ingredients.
• You guess at something in a recipe.
• You use the wrong method for mixing, or dont mix
  completely.

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Recipes go wrong when (Continued)

• Your forget one ingredient.
• You use the wrong substitution for another
  ingredient.
• You divided the recipe wrong.
• You fail to blend ingredients at the correct
  temperature.
• You dont used a tested recipe.
• You add something and then your lab partner adds
  it again.

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Standard Form

• The standard form
• Gives all the ingredients first and then the
  method.
• The listed ingredients show just what is needed
  to make the recipe.
• The method follows in paragraphs or steps.
• Especially good form for recipes using many
  ingredients.
• Easy to see ingredients needed
• -Must look back and forth

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Example of Standard Form Scotch Shortbread

• 1 cup butter
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 2 ¼ cup sifted cake flour
• Cream butter and sugar together and work in
  flour. Chill. Roll out about ¼ inch think on
  lightly floured board. Cut with pastry wheel,
  small fancy cutters, or cut into diamonds. Bake
  in a slow oven 325 degrees. Makes 7.

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Narrative Form

• The Narrative Form
• The form includes the amounts of the ingredients
  with the method.
• It is especially good for short recipes.
• Given in paragraph form
• Uses least amount of space
• -Difficult to determine what ingredients are
  needed

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Narrative Form Chocolate Quickies

• Melt 6 oz. Package of chocolate chips in 3 T.
  corn syrup and 1 T. water over low heat. Remove
  from heat. Stir in ¾ cup peanuts and ¾ cup
  raisins. Drop by teaspoonfuls on waxed paper on a
  cookie sheet. Chill until hardened. Makes 23
  candies.

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Action Form

• The Action Form
• This recipe style combines narrative action with
  listed ingredients.
• Form takes more space and is difficult to arrange
  economically or attractively on paper.
• It is easy to follow.
• -Some steps are awkward

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Action Form Egg Nog

• Beat together . . .
• 1 egg well beaten
• 2 T. sugar
• Beat in . . .
• 1 C. chilled rich milk
• ¼ tsp. Vanilla
• Serve cold in tall glass sprinkled lightly with
  nutmeg.