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Scald
To heat milk to temperature just below the boiling point. A thin skin forming over milk indicates sufficient heating.
Score
To cut lightly so as to mark with lines.
Shirr
To break eggs into a dish with cream or crumbs and bake in oven.
Simmer
To cook in liquid usually water, at temperature below boiling. Small bubbles are formed and rise slowly but liquid is practically motionless.
Skewer
To pierce or fasten with skewers as piece of meat.
Saffron
The stigma of a flower similar to a crocus, Crocus sativus. Dried and used to flavor breads and meats. Has a rice orange yellow color.
Sage
A perennial mint, the leaves of which are dried and used in stuffing's and meats.
Sausage Seasoning
A mixture of spices such as white pepper, coriander and nutmeg.
Savory
An annual mint. May be used fresh or dried in sauces, stuffing's, croquettes and stews. It is generally an important ingredient in prepared poultry seasoning.
Seasoned Salt
A mixture of salt and spices for which each manufacturer has his own special blend and name.
Sesame
An herb, the seeds of which are used to flavor rolls and cookies, and after baking the flavor resembles toasted almonds. Marketed in unhulled and hulled form, the latter being preferable., The best grade of unhulled seeds is a fancy orange variety from Turkey.
Safflower Oil
The Oil extracted from seed of the safflower plant; used for any cooking purposes; also used commercially for the manufacture of safflower margarine.
Suet
Clear, white fat of beef and mutton, usually from around the heart or kidney.
Sweet butter
Made from sweet cream. Unsalted.
Self-Rising Flour
Milled from soft or winter wheat and has salt and leavening added.
Soybean Flour
Milled from the soybean.
Skim Milk
Fresh fluid milk which contains not more than 0.1% butterfat.
Soured Milk
Artificially soured; to 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice in a measuring cup, add milk to one cup line.
Sweetened Condensed Milk
Milk from which on-half of the water has been removed and sugar has been added.
Sorghum Syrup
Obtained by clarification and concentration of juice of sugar sorghum.