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Preparing food
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| whip sth <-> up ----- [Whip the egg whites up into stiff peaks.] ----- [Whip up the batter, and put it in the oven.] | [transitive] to stir cream, etc. very quickly until it becomes stiff |
| batter | [uncountable, countable] a mixture of eggs, milk and flour used in cooking to cover food such as fish or chicken before you fry it, or to make pancakes |
| (egg) white | [countable, uncountable] the part of an egg that surrounds the yolk (= the yellow part) |
| rise ----- [Maurice whipped up the batter, and we put it in the oven. After it rose and cooled, we frosted it, and Maurice got to eat some of the frosting right out of the can.] | [intransitive] when bread, cakes, etc. rise , they swell because of the action of yeast or baking powder |
| frost ----- [Maurice whipped up the batter, and we put it in the oven. After it rose and cooled, we frosted it, and Maurice got to eat some of the frosting right out of the can.] | [transitive] to cover a cake with frosting |
| frosting ----- [Maurice whipped up the batter, and we put it in the oven. After it rose and cooled, we frosted it, and Maurice got to eat some of the frosting right out of the can.] | [uncountable] a sweet substance that you put on cakes, made from sugar and liquid |
| 'baking powder | [uncountable] a white powder used in cooking for making cakes rise while they are baking |
| yeast /yist/ | [uncountable] a type of fungus used for producing alcohol in beer and wine, and for making bread rise |
| scramble ----- [“Breakfast will be done soon,” she said, scrambling what looked like half–a–dozen eggs.] | [transitive, usually passive] to cook an egg by mixing the white and yellow parts together and heating them, sometimes with milk and butter |
| simmer ----- [Simmer the sauce gently for 10 minutes.] ----- [Leave the soup to simmer.] | [transitive, intransitive] to cook sth by keeping it almost at boiling point; to be cooked in this way |