Category: C
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Crisp-tender
Cooked until just tender, but not soft or limp.
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Crepe
A very thin pancake of French origin made with eggs and flour which is poured sparingly into a frying pan and fried on both sides. Just as the English language uses the apostrophe to indicate missing letters in words such as can’t or o’clock (shortened forms of cannot and of the clock), the French language…
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Creole
Term applied to various culinary preparations which usually contain rice. Creole cooking, a cuisine employing lots of shellfish and spices, grew out of the French, East Indian, and African cultures thrown together in the West Indies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The word originally referred to the descendants of Spanish settlers who were born…
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Cracklings
The residue left from rendered pork fat that has had the lard extracted. A crunchy morsel of fibrous material from swine, remaining post-extraction of the adipose tissue. The outer layer of a fresh ham that becomes crisp and brown when baked, usually scored before cooking to prevent it from affecting the meat’s shape. To achieve…
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Co-variance
Varying together.
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Cousinette
A soup made with spinach, sorrel, lettuce and other green herbs all of which are cut up very fine.
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Correlation’s or scatter diagrams
One of the seven Tools of Quality to show the relationship between two variables.
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Correlation
The relationship between two factors such as height and weight, or color and maturity. The correlation coefficient “r” is expressed as a decimal value ranging from -1 to +1. If “r” equals zero there is no correlation and values approaching 1 + or – indicate a near perfect relationship. Cor- relations less than 0.7 are…
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Corrective action
The action taken to bring the operation or process into conformance. A managerial activity aimed at bringing organizational performance up to the level of performance standards.
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Coriander
A spice from the seed of cilantro. Used in baking, confections and pickling. Pleasant aroma and sweet lingering flavor. Coriander also known as Chinese Parsley. Strong smelling annual perennial. Coriander also known as Coriandrum sativum. It is difficult to say what is more surprising: that coriander belongs to the carrot family or that its name…