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Recipe Study Guide



Matching
 
 
Read each description carefully. Match each description with the correct key term. Use each term only once. Check your answers before turning in your paper.
a.
Recipe
f.
Retesting
b.
Standardized recipe
g.
Portion size
c.
Preparation procedures
h.
Formula
d.
Quality control
i.
Baker’s percentage
e.
Yield
 

1. 

A system that ensures that everything meets a foodservice operation’s standards.
 

2. 

The size of an individual serving.
 

3. 

The percentage of each ingredient in relation to the weight of flour.
 

4. 

A set of written instructions used to consistently prepare food.
 

5. 

A special type of recipe used in the bakeshop.
 

6. 

A precise set of directions for a certain dish.
 

7. 

The number of servings that a recipe produces.
 

8. 

Required when substitutions are made in a standardized recipe to maintain quality and uniformity.
 

9. 

An important part of a recipe that is necessary to produce a consistent, high-quality product.
 
 
Read each description carefully. Match each description with the correct key term. Use each term only once. Check your answers before turning in your paper.
a.
Weight
f.
Count
b.
Balance scale
g.
Recipe conversion
c.
Portion scale
h.
Conversion factor
d.
Electronic scale
i.
Shrinkage
e.
Volume
j.
Volume measures
 

10. 

Weight is displayed in numbers.
 

11. 

Percentage of food lost during its storage and preparation
 

12. 

Measurement that tells how heavy something is.
 

13. 

Amount of space that a substance occupies.
 

14. 

Dividing the desired yield by the existing yield.
 

15. 

Baker's scale.
 

16. 

Measuring how much the spring is depressed.
 

17. 

Number of individual items.
 

18. 

Changing a recipe to produce a new amount.
 

19. 

Cups, pints, quarts, gallons.
 



 
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