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Cooking: Terms and What They Mean (1949)

1949 · Ephemeral film · 11 min · dir. Arthur H. Wolf

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Synopsis

Margie Blake, a young bride just back from her honeymoon, wants to impress her husband Tim by baking a delicious chocolate cake for his lunch. But she assumes the recipe direction to "cream" the butter means adding dairy cream to the recipe, which ruins the cake. This educational short film explains the meaning of the cooking term "cream" along with other unusual terms such as "fold", "soft ball stage", "knead", "braise", "dredge", "marinate", "scallop", "white sauce", "scald", and "sheet from…

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Details

Director
Arthur H. Wolf
Writer
Margaret Travis
Studio
Centron Corporation
Released
1949-01-05
Running time
11 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · A '50s Wife Who Can't Cook · Dodsworth the Cat · 2023-04-05

Somehow, the "woman of the house" has gone through life without hearing the words "stir" or "boil." Mr. Newlywed Husband probably wishes he was in "stir" after picking out this prize to carry over the threshold. Judging by social media, maybe there'd be an excuse for a poor vocabulary today. But this was in the days when "a woman's place" was in the home, except when she left to go shopping or to a bridge club. Not knowing how to cook? Unfathomable! She even has to make lunch at home for her man! (Evidently, commuting back and forth from home took no time). Fortunately, Margie has Young…

★★★★ · Cooking Delicious Meals From Scratch · JSBejma · 2022-10-13

Yup. That's history. Now they spend all day duding themselves up, and embarking on other (unmentionable) activities to ultimately get to that COO level. Thank you Lean Cuisine and the microwave oven. Informative (in its day)

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