[Sca-cooks] Marzipan sauce anyone? (was Re: An Evil Thought- Excercise in Intelligence)

[Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur]

> > I suspect it means the same as "temper" in cooking. Dialectical
> differences,
> > dontcha know.
> OK... ;-)
> What does "temper" mean?

To mix two dissimilar liquids together. It has a couple of specialized
applications, but that's the general meaning. In egg cookery, tempering eggs
means heating them slowly by adding small amount of hot liquid, so that they
don't curdle into scrambled eggs when added to the larger mass of hot
liquid. In chocolate work, tempering refers to a process of heating and
cooling the melted chocolate to as to give a nice satiny finish to the
cooled solid chocolate.

Avraham

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