Cooking Terms

Cooking Terms and Ingredients

Some Australian cooking terms and ingredient names differ from that of American terms and ingredient names.. hopefully this will help!

Terms

  • Absorbent Paper - Paper Towel
  • Baking Tray - Cookie Sheet
  • Cake Cooler - Wire Rack
  • Cake Tin - Baking Pan
  • Essence - Extract
  • Greaseproof Paper - Wax Paper
  • Kitchen Paper - Paper Towel
  • Lamington Tin - 13" x 9" x 2" pan
  • Oven Slide - Cookie Sheet
  • Patty Cups - Paper Cupcake Holders
  • Recess Cake Tin - Sponge Flan Pan
  • Ring Tin - Tube Pan
  • Swiss Roll Tin - Jelly Roll Pan
  • Tea Towel - Dish Towel

    • Ingredients

  • Bacon Rashers - Canadian Bacon
  • Biscuits - Cookies
  • Caster Sugar - Superfine Sugar
  • Capsicum - Sweet or Bell Pepper
  • Copha - White Vegetable Shortening
  • Cornflour - Cornstarch
  • Cutlets - Chops
  • Dessicated Coconut - Shredded Coconut
  • Flour (plain) - All Purpose Flour
  • Flour (self raising) - Self Rising Flour
  • Flour (wholemeal) - Whole Wheat Flour
  • Gelatine - Unflavored Gelatine
  • Ghee - Clarified Butter
  • Glace' Cherries - Marichino Cherries
  • Icing Sugar - Confectioners Sugar
  • King Prawns - Jumbo Shrimp
  • Mince - Ground Beef
  • PawPaw - Papaya
  • Rockmelon - Cantaloupe
  • Scones - Biscuits
  • Shallots - Scallions
  • Stock Cubes - Boullion Cubes
  • Sultanas - Golden Seedless Raisins
  • Tomato Sauce - Tomato Catsup


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