- The German town of Dortmund is the home of Dortmunder.
- The stems and leaves of the Coriander plant most often season Mexican cuisine, and this portion of the plant is known as the herb Cilantro. It's also used in Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American cooking. One individual also remarked on the cuisine, noting that Coriander root is also used quite frequently in Thai food, and that Caribbean cuisine frequently uses Coriander's cousin, Chadon Beni, an herb indigenous to Trinidad.
- Kochujang/gochu jang is known as a Korean hot pepper paste. As well, it's also known as Chilean bean paste, and is used to spice up Hunan and Szchechuan dishes as well as Korean fare.
- The fee some restaurants charge to open a patron-provided bottle of wine is called corkage.
- Fugu contains lethal amounts of tetrodotoxin in both the skin and in certain internal organs such as the liver.
- Zhen shou nai cha is one of the many names for bubble tea.
- Another name for Oregano is Wild Marjoram.
- Cornichons are most commonly served with smoked meats and smoked fish, and they're also quite good with patés. Cornichons are also essential in tartar sauce, or sauce tartare.
- Mayonnaise, Hollandaise, Bearnaise, and Sabayon are all examples of tasty emulsions.
- Horehound is used to make Horehound candy, and it's used to make throat lozenges; as well, its extract is used to make Horehound-based cough elixer.
- A Reboham contains 4.5 liters of wine.
- I need to more carefully phrase my questions. I was reminded that leaf lard is typically considered the best type of lard, as it is drawn from the thicker fat that sits around a pig's kidneys; however, lard itself is exclusively rendered and clarified pork fat, and--outside of its uses in cooking--one of lard's most traditional uses is in the manufacture of soap. The "solid white fat around the kidneys of many animals" I was looking for is suet: this is raw beef or mutton fat, is delightfully rich and moist when used in cooking, and was also the base ingredient in tallow candles.
- A clementine is a small citrus fruit, one of the varieties of the Mandarin orange.
- Chambord is the cordial in question.
- The Short Loin includes both the Tenderloin and the Top Loin.
- Naga Jolokia--also known as Bhut Jolokia--is the pepper that provides such a distinctive warmth in certain Indian and Asian dishes.
- Quinine is what gives both tonic water and bitters their distinctive flavour.
- Spotted Dick is, in the words of one accomplished cook, "a steamed suet pudding - so flour, suet, water and then currants. I'd put some [sugar,] spice and lemon zest in as well. Serve with creme anglais."
- Scotch Woodcock is softly-scrambled eggs and cream resting on anchovy paste-topped toast squares.
- A float of Galliano is required to turn a Screwdriver into a Harvey Wallbanger.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Answers to yesterday's questions
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