Delia Smith
Delia Smith
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Delia's Techniques - How to make Perfect Gravy
Delia shows how to make Perfect Gravy: when you're roasting meat and its removed from the oven and its put aside to rest you are left with all the fat and meat juices left in the tin.
To make gravy you first need to place the tin over a gentle direct heat, then tilt the tin and you will see clearly how the juices and the fat will separate in the corner. Spoon off the excess fat and reserve it for cooking, leaving behind about 1 1/2 tablespoons of fat with all the juice. Now let the fat and juices begin to bubble, turning the heat up to medium, use a wooden spoon to scrape all the crusty bits from the base of the tin, adding a slightly rounded tablespoon of Sauce Flour, which you can find o...
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Delia's Techniques - How to Choose a Frying Pan
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.4 года назад
Delia explains the reasons why she does not like using a non-stick frying pan. Our own British made - Alan Silverwood Ltd - Delia Online Little Gem Frying Pan is a good all purpose frying pan for beginners. Made from heavy gauge aluminium, which is the very best conductor of heat, and this will last you a lifetime. To simulate years of use Delia found a way of seasoning the pan before you use i...
Delia's Techniques - How to Skin and De-seed Tomatoes
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Delia shows How to Skin and De-seed Tomatoes: make a small nick in the base of the tomato skin with a sharp knife and then just place them in a bowl. Pour in boiling water from the kettle. If they are large tomatoes give them exactly one minute with a timer, the smaller ones will only take 30 seconds. After that immediately transfer them to a bowl of cold water. Then when they are cool enough t...
Delia's Techniques - How to Prepare Garlic
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Delia shows how to Prepare Garlic. From a head of garlic remove a clove and split the skin. Sometimes in the winter there is a little green shoot inside and its best to remove this as it tastes bitter. There are three ways to crush garlic. Firstly, by sprinkling salt onto a surface, pop the garlic on top, using a broad bladed knife crush the garlic into the salt. Another way is to use a garlic ...
Delia's Techniques - How to Sharpen a Knife and Chop Onions
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Watch how to Sharpen a Knife 0:26 and Chop Onions 1:35. Before we even look at how to chop an onion, we're going to need a very sharp knife. So first of all, a quick lesson. Every kitchen needs a good set of knives, this one is a cooks knife and its good if it has a little bit of flexibility to it. The other item is a sharpening steel and this will last you a lifetime. The best way to learn is ...
Delia's Techniques - How to make Perfect Mashed Potatoes
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Delia shows how to make Perfect Mashed Potatoes: the first thing you are going to need is the best quality potatoes. These are a variety called Desiree. They have what we most want from cooking potatoes and that is quite simply flavour. The potatoes are washed and to begin with you need to know that paring off the skin as thinly as possible helps to retain the flavour and the vitamin C content,...
Delia's Techniques - How to Shallow Fry Fish
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Delia shows how to make Shallow Fried Fish: once you have learned how to make a batter in our Cookery School you can then actually shallow fry fish without all the bother of deep frying. The fish shouldn't be too thick so tail ends of thicker fish, or flat fish like plaice, are ideal. Slice down the middle to divide into two, trim the ends, and feel for bones and pinch them out if there are any...
Delia's Techniques - How to Choose Tins and Liners
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Delia explains the reasons why she created the Delia Online range of Bakeware and Equipment with British companies Alan Silverwood and Falcon Products, the manufacturers of Bake-0-Glide, to create a complete and comprehensive set of tins and liners. Because the quality is superb they are going to last a lifetime. Delia shows the bakeware range in detail and explains the depth of the Sponge Tins...
Delia's Techniques - How to make a Vinaigrette Dressing
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Delia shows the equipment and the necessary ingredients required to make the perfect Vinaigrette Dressing. A pestle and mortar (or jar) a mini whisk, extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, mustard powder, wine vinegar and garlic. Once you have mastered the basic vinaigrette there are many variations to try. For full recipes and ingredients : Basic Vinaigrette Dressing: www.deliaonline.com/recipe...
Delia's Techniques - How to Choose Fats
Просмотров 1 тыс.4 года назад
Delia explains one of the most important cake making ingredients. You can make cakes with different kinds of fat. There's block butter, which was most commonly used, but its hard and its a real pain waiting for it to be soft enough to make a cake. Then there's whipped fat, which is suitable for vegetarians, and because its soft you can whip up everything together in the bowl together. It does m...
Lesson 3 - How to cook Delia's Perfect Pasta
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In this lesson Delia explains what quality pasta is and what to look out for on pasta packaging. Delia shows How to Cook Perfect Pasta 1:12, home-made Pesto sauce 3:56, to use in Trofie Pasta Liguria (Pasta with Green Beans and Potatoes) 6:01, and Pasta alla Carbonara (clicking the highlighted times will take you to those chapters in the video). For full recipes and ingredients : How to Cook Pe...
Delia's Techniques - How to make Sausage Rolls
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How to make Sausage Rolls: For the best sausage rolls of all you first need to make the pastry. Delia uses 110g of plain sifted flour, a pinch of salt and 75g of block butter which has been frozen for about 45 minutes. Toss the piece of the butter first in the flour and using the coarse side of a 4-sider grater grate the butter into the flour. Hold it and grate it using downward movements which...
Delia's Techniques - How to Buy and Store Spices
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Delia explains How to Buy and Store Spices. Whole spices start to lose their powerful flavour and fragrance once they're ground. There are two enemies to spices stored in glass jars, one is light and the other is air - once the spice is half used. Delia discovered a company which has pioneered dealing with these two problems, called Seasoned Pioneers. Their spices are high quality and cleverly ...
Delia's Techniques - What's With Pepper?
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When Delia became a cookery writer years ago her first burning campaign was to rid us all of this musty, dusty ingredient called ground pepper. Because once ground, like all other spices, it loses its fragrance and flavour. Whereas freshly ground pepper has a very special role in cooking and eating. Peppercorns begin as immature berries which are harvested and dried in the sun. They have a blac...
Delia's Techniques - How to Store and Freeze Cakes and Biscuits
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Delia explains it is helpful to know how to Store and Freeze Cakes and Biscuits. Brownies freeze like a dream, wrapped in clingfilm and stored in a freezer bag, as can an unfilled sponge cake. Scones freeze really well too, as most other little cakes. Ideally for a month but we found they keep a lot longer than that. You can also freeze sponge cakes in slices, wrapped in clingfilm again, which ...
Delia's Techniques - How to cook a Cauliflower
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Delia's Techniques - How to cook a Cauliflower
Delia's Techniques - How to Zest and Juice Citrus Fruits
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Delia's Techniques - How to Zest and Juice Citrus Fruits
Delia's Techniques - What's With Salt?
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Delia's Techniques - What's With Salt?
Delia's Techniques - How to Layer and Ice Cakes
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Delia's Techniques - How to Layer and Ice Cakes
Delia's Techniques - Weighing and Measuring
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Delia's Techniques - Weighing and Measuring
Delia's Techniques - How to make Perfect Roast Potatoes
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Delia's Techniques - How to make Perfect Roast Potatoes
Delia's Techniques - How to make Marmalade
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Delia's Techniques - How to make Marmalade
Delia's Techniques - How to make Perfect Egg Whites
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Delia's Techniques - How to make Perfect Egg Whites
Lesson 1 - How to cook Delia's Long Grain Rice
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Lesson 1 - How to cook Delia's Long Grain Rice
Delia's Techniques - How to make Caramel
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Delia's Techniques - How to make Caramel
Delia's Techniques - How to Separate Eggs
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Delia's Techniques - How to Separate Eggs
Lesson 4 - How to make Delia's Baked Pasta Dishes
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Lesson 4 - How to make Delia's Baked Pasta Dishes
Delia's Techniques - How to make The Best Roast Chicken
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Delia's Techniques - How to make The Best Roast Chicken
Delia's Techniques - How to Roast, Chop and Prepare Nuts
Просмотров 3624 года назад
Delia's Techniques - How to Roast, Chop and Prepare Nuts
Delia's Techniques - How to Prepare Peppers and Chillies
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Delia's Techniques - How to Prepare Peppers and Chillies