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Refers to the smaller cuts of meat obtained from the larger primal cuts of an animal. For example, a beef chuck primal cut can be divided into the arm section and the blade section and from these sub-primals are cut the smaller market ready roasts and steaks.

Cuts of meat that are cut to an individual serving size from a primal or sub-primal cut. Examples of portion cuts are steaks, chops, fillets and medallions.

The smaller primary cuts of meat, taken from the carcass or sides of beef, pork, veal, or lamb, describing the anatomical location from where the cut originated.

The primal cut of an animal that contains the most tender and the leanest sub-primal and market ready cuts.

Commonly known as the thin cut or brisket-deckel-off, this cut is one of two that are produced from the Beef Brisket.

Also referred to as the Deckel or Deckle, this cut is one of two cuts taken from the beef brisket, a piece of meat located between the fore shank and the plate of the beef carcass....

An oblong-shaped cut for vegetables such as carrots, potatoes or squash that provides a distinctive and consistent appearance to the food item being served.

A primal cut of beef, which extends from the neck to the fifth rib and includes the shoulder blade and the upper arm.

A type of red meat cut from carcasses of cattle that are raised, butchered, and processed for human consumption.

Any cut of meat taken from the foreleg of beef, lamb, pork, buffalo, or veal. Shank cuts include the pork ham hocks, which are sometimes referred to as the hock end or the ankle region on an animal.

A decorative cut made, in bread dough, using a scissor. The cut also allows the bread to rise and expand while baking, preventing tears and cracks along the sides or bottom of the bread.

A term customarily applied to the meat of a pig that is under a year old. The pig carcass is generally split into two sides of pork; each consisting of four primal cuts known as the shoulder, loin, leg/ham, and side/belly.

An oat product that is basically oat groats that have been cut into smaller pieces. This technique helps to reduce the cooking time to about 15 minutes, which is less than half that of oat groats that have not been cut.

1. A type of design or pattern that can be produced on many different types of foods. Scallop cuts can be created with knives, manually by hand or with the use of scallop cutters that make the cut by stamping out the scallop formed in the cutter.

The loin is located on both sides of the backbone starting at the shoulder and continuing back to the hind leg.

A type of rolling pin that has closely spaced grooves running the entire length of the pin as well as around the shaft at right angles to the length of the pin.

A type of rolling pin used for the preparation of dough when making lefse, flat breads, pizza, and other dough-based foods.

Grain, such as oats, wheat or corn that has been processed by slicing or cracking the whole kernel into very coarse, coarse, medium or fine bits to enable the grain to cook faster....

Fresh or canned meat that consists of precooked, ready to serve meat loaves or sausages made from pork, ham, or beef.

In preparing pastry, this refers to mixing a fat such as butter or lard with a dry ingredient such as flour until it forms particles of fat that are covered with the dry ingredient.