LE CORDON BLEU QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET
A+
✔✔Pate en croute - ✔✔Chopped meat cooked in a dough
✔✔Paupiette - ✔✔Thin piece of meat or fish that is stuffed, rolled, tied, and cooked
✔✔Persillade - ✔✔Mixture made from parsley and chopped garlic
✔✔Piler - ✔✔To grind; to make a powder by crushing in a mortar and pestle
✔✔Pincee - ✔✔A pinch
✔✔Pluches - ✔✔Springs; small leaves picked off the stems
✔✔Poeler - ✔✔To pan fry
✔✔Quadriller - ✔✔1. To mark using a grill, squares or diamonds on meat
2. To mark squares using a knife
✔✔Quenelles - ✔✔Meat, poultry, or fish puree, thickened with egg white and cream,
usually molded with 2 spoons into an egg shape
✔✔Rafraichir - ✔✔1. To refresh; to quickly cool in cold water something that has been
blanched
2. helps set the chlorophyll in a green vegetable
✔✔Raidir or saisir - ✔✔To sieze; to precook without coloring
✔✔Raper - ✔✔To grate
✔✔Rassis - ✔✔To stale
, ✔✔Rectifier - ✔✔To rectify; to correct the seasoning of a dish
✔✔Reduire - ✔✔To reduce
✔✔Relever - ✔✔To reinforce the flavoring through the use of spices
✔✔Revenir - ✔✔To quickly color a food in hot fat or oil
✔✔Rissoler - ✔✔To cook a food until well colored in hot fat or oil
✔✔Saupoudrer - ✔✔To sprinkle; to evenly distribute a powder over the surface of a dish
or dessert
✔✔Sauter - ✔✔To saute
✔✔Singer - ✔✔To sprinkle with flour at the start o the cooking in order to eventually
give a certain consistence to the sauce
✔✔Suer - ✔✔To sweat
✔✔Supreme - ✔✔The breast part of the fowl, also used in reference to a fillet of fish
✔✔Tailler - ✔✔To cut in a precise fashion
✔✔Veloute - ✔✔A thickened soup, made from a stock and a roux
✔✔ Abaisser - ✔✔To roll a dough out with the air of a rolling pin to the desired thickness
✔✔Abats - ✔✔Offal: Internal organs of butchered animals sold mainly by stores
specializing in this called "triperies"
White offal: sweetbreads, feet, brains
Red offal: heart, lungs, liver
✔✔Abattis - ✔✔Feet, neck, heads, wingtips, liver, gizzard, and heart of poultry
✔✔Abricoter - ✔✔To cover a pastry with apricot glaze in order to give it a shiny
appearance
✔✔Accommoder - ✔✔To prepare and season a dish for cooking
✔✔Acidifier - ✔✔To add lemon juice or vinegar to prevent the oxidation of fruits,
vegetables, and fish
A+
✔✔Pate en croute - ✔✔Chopped meat cooked in a dough
✔✔Paupiette - ✔✔Thin piece of meat or fish that is stuffed, rolled, tied, and cooked
✔✔Persillade - ✔✔Mixture made from parsley and chopped garlic
✔✔Piler - ✔✔To grind; to make a powder by crushing in a mortar and pestle
✔✔Pincee - ✔✔A pinch
✔✔Pluches - ✔✔Springs; small leaves picked off the stems
✔✔Poeler - ✔✔To pan fry
✔✔Quadriller - ✔✔1. To mark using a grill, squares or diamonds on meat
2. To mark squares using a knife
✔✔Quenelles - ✔✔Meat, poultry, or fish puree, thickened with egg white and cream,
usually molded with 2 spoons into an egg shape
✔✔Rafraichir - ✔✔1. To refresh; to quickly cool in cold water something that has been
blanched
2. helps set the chlorophyll in a green vegetable
✔✔Raidir or saisir - ✔✔To sieze; to precook without coloring
✔✔Raper - ✔✔To grate
✔✔Rassis - ✔✔To stale
, ✔✔Rectifier - ✔✔To rectify; to correct the seasoning of a dish
✔✔Reduire - ✔✔To reduce
✔✔Relever - ✔✔To reinforce the flavoring through the use of spices
✔✔Revenir - ✔✔To quickly color a food in hot fat or oil
✔✔Rissoler - ✔✔To cook a food until well colored in hot fat or oil
✔✔Saupoudrer - ✔✔To sprinkle; to evenly distribute a powder over the surface of a dish
or dessert
✔✔Sauter - ✔✔To saute
✔✔Singer - ✔✔To sprinkle with flour at the start o the cooking in order to eventually
give a certain consistence to the sauce
✔✔Suer - ✔✔To sweat
✔✔Supreme - ✔✔The breast part of the fowl, also used in reference to a fillet of fish
✔✔Tailler - ✔✔To cut in a precise fashion
✔✔Veloute - ✔✔A thickened soup, made from a stock and a roux
✔✔ Abaisser - ✔✔To roll a dough out with the air of a rolling pin to the desired thickness
✔✔Abats - ✔✔Offal: Internal organs of butchered animals sold mainly by stores
specializing in this called "triperies"
White offal: sweetbreads, feet, brains
Red offal: heart, lungs, liver
✔✔Abattis - ✔✔Feet, neck, heads, wingtips, liver, gizzard, and heart of poultry
✔✔Abricoter - ✔✔To cover a pastry with apricot glaze in order to give it a shiny
appearance
✔✔Accommoder - ✔✔To prepare and season a dish for cooking
✔✔Acidifier - ✔✔To add lemon juice or vinegar to prevent the oxidation of fruits,
vegetables, and fish
