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Here you will find all the recipes included in the Cookery School, and if you click on them you will come across videos and techniques to help you improve and get better with practice. The Delia Online Cookery School: Who better to introduce our Cookery School than Delia herself. Click the image to see her explain why she wants to teach you how ...
- Classic Fresh Tomato Sauce
When serving this sauce, it is a good idea to give the pasta...
- Christmas Stollen
First put 300g of the flour, together with the salt and...
- English Custard Tart
This old-fashioned English Custard tart needs a thick wobby...
- Chinese Stir-fried Rice
Delia's Chinese Stir-fried Rice recipe. The golden rule of...
- Chinese Stir-fried Chicken With Shiitake Mushrooms and Purple Sprouting Broccoli
First of all remove the skin and any bone from the chicken...
- Apple, Prune and Armagnac Clafoutis
The night before place the prunes in a saucepan with 75ml of...
- Damson
Delia's Damson (or Plum) and Cinnamon Muffins recipe. It’s...
- Eggs En Cocotte With Leeks
Pre-heat the oven to 180C, gas mark 4 and put a kettle on to...
- Classic Fresh Tomato Sauce
- Perfect Cakes. Classic Sponge Cake. Other sponge cakes. Little Cakes. Family Cakes. Lesson 5. Loaf Cakes. Lesson 6.
- Perfect Eggs. Soft and Hard Boiled Eggs. Poached and Fried Eggs. Scrambled and Baked Eggs. Omelettes. Lesson 5.
- Pastry, Flour Based Sauces and Batters. Shortcrust Pastry. Quiches and Tarts. Quick Flaky Pastry. Flour Based Sauces.
- Bread for Beginners. Wholemeal Breads. White Breads. Speciality Breads. Recipes with Bread. Lesson 6. Hot Cross Buns.
- Al dente — Usually used in reference to pasta, this terms literally means “to the tooth” in Italian. Al dente means there should be a little bit of toothsome texture left in the noodle — as in it’s 90% cooked through, but not 100%.
- Baste — Basting just means to bathe a food in liquid while it’s cooking. This liquid could be melted fat, butter, or its own juices. Why? Basting does a few things.
- Blanch — To blanch means to flash-boil something in salted boiling water, literally just a few seconds to a few minutes. Usually followed by “refreshing,” which means to sink the food into a bowl of ice-cold water to quickly stop cooking.
- Brine — To brine simply means to salt ahead of time. There are two kinds of brining: dry brining and wet brining. Dry brining means to rub something with granulated salt, while wet brining means to soak something in salty water.
Welcome to the Learn to Cook section where you can watch videos, read up on helpful Study Notes and Ingredients, find information about our own Bakeware and Equipment Range and lots more.
Oct 8, 2020 · One of the more overlooked ways of learning to cook better is learning to read recipes better. Professional cooks don't simply follow along with a recipe. They give it a very careful examination first. Here's how the pros read recipes, and what we can learn from them.
Aug 4, 2021 · Cooking terms can be confusing, and most cookbooks aren't as detailed as beginning cooks would like. But if you learn how to read and follow a cooking recipe, you will be able to avoid the 10 most common recipe mistakes and turn out delicious and impressive meals.
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