Tag: Eggs
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Can you boil an egg?
UK supermarkets are now supplying boiled eggs to a nation of people who say they can’t boil an egg.
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Traditional Puddings – Strawberry Cheesecake
Whilst shopping in Kuala Lumpur recently, as usual, I found myself browsing the cookbook section of a large bookshop. The cover photo of Traditional Puddings attracted me immediately – and I don’t even like sweet things very much! A quick flick through the book revealed lots of other promising goodies, such as Mississippi mud pie,…
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Temperature control – Cooking with soups, stocks and eggs
Soups and stocks It is much safer to prepare soups and stocks in small quantities and throw away any left over at the end of the day. [Hmmm, if it’s stored properly in the fridge or freezer there’s no real need for the home cook to throw it away.] It is bad practice to top…
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Personal Hygiene – Hands
The following rules apply to food handlers in a public or commercial environment. However, there’s no reason why every cook shouldn’t follow them at home too. Bacteria live in and on your body and you can transfer them to food if you don’t maintain a high standard of personal hygiene. One of the easiest ways…
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Sources of food poisoning bacteria
Before you can protect food from bacteria, first you need to know some facts. Where did the bacteria come from and how did they come to be present in the food? The answer is that most bacteria come from human and animal sources. We’ll go through the sources one by one. Raw Foods Many bacteria,…