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6th Sem Food Production Notes

Syllabus BHM351 (T)

01 International Cuisine

  1. Geographic location
  2. Historical background
  3. Staple food with regional Influences
  4. Specialties
  5. Recipes
  6. Equipment in relation to:
    1. Great Britain
    2. France
    3. Italy
    4. Spain & Portugal
    5. Scandinavia
    6. Germany
    7. Middle East
    8. Oriental
    9. Mexican
    10. Arabic

Chinese

  1. Introduction to Chinese foods
  2. Historical background
  3. Regional cooking styles
  4. Methods of cooking
  5. Equipment & utensils

02 Bakery & Confectionery

I. Icings & Toppings

  1. Varieties of icings
  2. Uses of Icings
  3. Difference between icings & Toppings
  4. Recipes

II. Frozen Desserts

  1. Types and classification of Frozen desserts
  2. Ice-creams – Definitions
  3. Methods of preparation
  4. Additives and preservatives used in Ice-cream manufacture

III. Meringues

  1. Making of Meringues
  2. Factors affecting the stability
  3. Cooking Meringues
  4. Types of Meringues
  5. Uses of Meringues

IV. Bread Making

  1. Role of ingredients in bread Making
  2. Bread Faults
  3. Bread Improvers

V. Chocolate

  1. History
  2. Sources
  3. Manufacturing & Processing of Chocolate
  4. Types of chocolate
  5. Tempering of chocolate
  6. Cocoa butter, white chocolate, and its applications

03 Production Management

  1. Kitchen Organisation
  2. Allocation of Work – Job Description, Duty Rosters
  3. Production Planning
  4. Production Scheduling
  5. Production Quality & Quantity Control
  6. Forecasting & Budgeting
  7. Yield Management

04 Product & Research Development

  1. A. Testing new equipment
  2. B. Developing new recipes
  3. C. Food Trails
  4. D. Organoleptic & Sensory Evaluation

05 French

  1. Culinary French
  2. Classical recipes (Recettes Classique)
  3. Historical Background of Classical Garnishes
  4. Offals/Game
  5. Larder terminology and vocabulary

Syllabus with topics linked

Syllabus BHM351 (T)

01 International Cuisine

  1. Geographic location
  2. Historical background
  3. Staple food with regional Influences
  4. Specialties
  5. Recipes
  6. Equipment in relation to:
    1. Great Britain
    2. France
    3. Italy
    4. Spain & Portugal
    5. Scandinavia
    6. Germany
    7. Middle East
    8. Oriental
    9. Mexican
    10. Arabic

Chinese

  1. Introduction to Chinese foods
  2. Historical background
  3. Regional cooking styles
  4. Methods of cooking
  5. Equipment & utensils

02 Bakery & Confectionery

I. Icings & Toppings

  1. Varieties of icings
  2. Uses of Icings
  3. Difference between icings & Toppings
  4. Recipes

II. Frozen Desserts

  1. Types and classification of Frozen desserts
  2. Ice-creams – Definitions
  3. Methods of preparation
  4. Additives and preservatives used in Ice-cream manufacture

III. Meringues

  1. Making of Meringues
  2. Factors affecting the stability
  3. Cooking Meringues
  4. Types of Meringues
  5. Uses of Meringues

IV. Bread Making

  1. Role of ingredients in bread Making
  2. Bread Faults
  3. Bread Improvers

V. Chocolate

  1. History
  2. Sources
  3. Manufacturing & Processing of Chocolate
  4. Types of chocolate
  5. Tempering of chocolate
  6. Cocoa butter, white chocolate, and its applications

03 Production Management

  1. Kitchen Organisation
  2. Allocation of Work – Job Description, Duty Rosters
  3. Production Planning
  4. Production Scheduling
  5. Production Quality & Quantity Control
  6. Forecasting & Budgeting
  7. Yield Management

04 Product & Research Development

  1. A. Testing new equipment
  2. B. Developing new recipes
  3. C. Food Trails
  4. D. Organoleptic & Sensory Evaluation

05 French

  1. Culinary French
  2. Classical recipes (Recettes Classique)
  3. Historical Background of Classical Garnishes
  4. Offals/Game
  5. Larder terminology and vocabulary
Staple Food with Regional Influences

Staple Food with Regional Influences

A staple food is a primary constituent of a diet and provides a large fraction of energy and nutritional needs. Consumed regularly, often daily, these foods are typically inexpensive, plant-based, and calorie-dense. The most common staples include cereal grains and...

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Specialties from Different Regions

Specialties from Different Regions

Great Britain Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom or UK, is a sovereign state located off the northwest coast of mainland Europe. It is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, composed of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and...

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Recipes

Recipes

Chinese MENU 01  Prawn Ball Soup Prawn Ball Soup: Ingredients: 500g prawns, peeled and deveined 1 egg white 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 tablespoon sesame oil 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 tablespoon Shaoxing wine 1 tablespoon ginger, grated 1 clove garlic, minced 6 cups...

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Cooking Equipment Used in Different Regions

Cooking Equipment Used in Different Regions

Cooking equipment plays a crucial role in cooking, as it enables us to perform various techniques and methods of cooking, making it easier and more efficient. The right equipment can help achieve the desired texture, flavor, and presentation of a dish. Cooking...

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Introduction to Chinese foods

Introduction to Chinese foods

Chinese cooking is probably the biggest techniques of cooking, it has an extended historical past, and is one particular from the Chinese cultural treasures. It's popular all over the world. Chinese cookery has produced and matured in excess of the centuries, forming...

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Historical background of Chinese Cuisine

Historical background of Chinese Cuisine

China has one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations. It is thought that some form of organized society began around 2000 B.C., and throughout the centuries, China has made significant world contributions in philosophy, religion, science, math, politics,...

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Regional cooking styles: Chinese Cuisine

Regional cooking styles: Chinese Cuisine

Not surprisingly, given China’s size, there are a number of distinct regional cooking styles that can be divided into four major traditions: the northern plains, including Beijing; the fertile east, watered by the Yangtze River; the south, famous for the Cantonese...

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Methods of cooking: Chinese Cuisine

Methods of cooking: Chinese Cuisine

Chinese cuisine enjoys high fame throughout the world. Not only does it have a reputation for being delicious, it is also considered an art form in its own right. Chinese cooking involves looking at the combination of the ingredients as well as paying particular...

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Tempering of Chocolate

Tempering of Chocolate

What is tempering? Tempering chocolate is an essential step for making smooth, glossy, evenly coloured coating for your dipped chocolates. Tempering prevents the dull greyish colour and waxy texture that happens when the cocoa fat separates out. Tempered chocolate...

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Equipment & utensils: Chinese Cuisine

Equipment & utensils: Chinese Cuisine

Using Chinese kitchen equipment is not as terrifying as some people may think. Although some equipment may look rather unusual, these tools help tremendously in the preparation of some of the most delicious Chinese dishes. This article highlights many popular kitchen...

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Icing & Toppings

Icing & Toppings

Icings Icings or frostings are sweet coatings for cakes and other baked goods. Icings have three main functions:- They improve the keeping qualities of the cake by forming protective coatings around it. they contribute flavor and richness They improve appearance....

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Icings and its varieties

Icings and its varieties

Icing, often called frosting in the United States, is a sweet, often creamy glaze made of sugar with a liquid, such as water or milk, that is often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, cream cheese, or flavourings. It is used to cover or decorate baked...

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Uses of Icings

Uses of Icings

USES OF ICINGS: They contribute flavour & richness. Improve keeping quality by forming protective coatings around the cake. Improve appearances. Reasons for decorating pastry items with icings: To enhance the product in the eyes of the guest/ customer. To give “...

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Difference between Icings & Toppings

Difference between Icings & Toppings

Frosting is a thick and opaque mixture used for topping and covering the outside (and sometimes filling the inside) of cakes. All frostings may be used to cover a cake, but there are specific types that are best for decorating. Icing is defined as a mixture of...

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Recipes of Icings

Recipes of Icings

We are going to cover following Icing's Recipe:- Butter Icing Butter Cream Foam Types American  Marshmallow Flat Type Fondant Fudge Type Chocolate Royal Glace 1. BUTTER ICING – As the name suggests this icing is made by using butter or its substitutes. It is mainly...

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Frozen Desserts

Frozen Desserts

Frozen dessert is the generic name for desserts made by freezing liquids, semi-solids, and sometimes even solids. They may be based on flavored water (shave ice, ice pops, sorbet, snow cones, etc.), on fruit purées (such as sorbet), on milk and cream (most ice...

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Types and classification of Frozen desserts

Types and classification of Frozen desserts

Frozen Desserts Frozen desserts are any of various desserts made by freezing liquids, semi-solids, and sometimes even solids. It includes ice creams, sherbets, sorbets, frozen yoghurts, and non-dairy frozen desserts and comes in many different flavours and types with...

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Ice-creams – Definition, Types & Flavours

Ice-creams – Definition, Types & Flavours

Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It is usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. It is typically sweetened with sugar or sugar substitutes....

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Method of preparation of Ice Cream

If you have got some free time, feel free to go through this video instead, its a factory tour of Amul Ice-cream Manufacturing process Raw Materials Today, ice cream is made from a blend of dairy products (cream, condensed milk,...

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Making of Meringues

Making of Meringues

Meringue is a type of dessert, often associated with French, Swiss, and Italian cuisine, traditionally made from whipped egg whites and sugar, and occasionally an acidic ingredient such as lemon, vinegar or cream of tartar. A binding agent such as salt, cornstarch or...

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Factors affecting the stability of Meringues

Factors affecting the stability of Meringues

The speed of whisk, length of time whisking, cleanliness of egg (i.e. no yolk), state of the bowl (e.g. needs to be clean and dry) etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fnWf5BvXac Factors affecting the stability of Meringues are as follows: Only absolutely clean and...

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Cooking Meringues

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPf7n2-KLfQ   More Content to be added to this post if you have any do contribute by posting in the comment box below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z0Uce1hWL4  

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Types of Meringues

Types of Meringues

There are three types of meringue; their differences lie in when and how the sugar is added: French Meringue This uncooked meringue is the one most people are familiar with. The sugar is gradually beaten into the egg whites once they have reached soft peaks, and then...

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Uses of Meringues

Uses of Meringues

Meringues eaten like biscuits are baked at a very low heat for a long time. One name for them is forgotten cookies as they can be left in a gas oven for long periods of time after the cooking is done. They are not supposed to be "tanned" at all, but they need to be...

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Role of ingredients in Bread Making

Role of ingredients in Bread Making

Yeast Yeast is the heart of the bread-making process. It’s the essential ingredient that makes the dough rise and gives home-baked bread its wonderful taste and aroma. Other ingredients are added to complete the reactions that result in a perfectly baked loaf of hot,...

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Bread Faults

Bread Faults

To understand bread faults first we need to understand what is meant by the term “Good Bread”. There are few parameters by which a professional judges the quality of the bread. Those parameters are as follows. 1. Volume 2. Bloom of crust/shine 3. Colour of crust &...

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Chocolate and its History

Chocolate and its History

Chocolate is a typically sweet, usually brown food preparation of Theobroma cacao seeds, roasted and ground. It is made in the form of a liquid, paste, or in a block, or used as a flavouring ingredient in other foods. Chocolate has become one of the most popular food...

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Bread Improvers

Bread Improvers

Bread Improvers  (also called improving agents, Flour treatment agents, dough conditioners and dough improvers) are food additives combined with flour to improve baking functionality. Flour treatment agents are used to increase the speed of dough rising and to improve...

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Manufacture & Processing of Chocolate

Manufacture & Processing of Chocolate

Before you move to read text consider going through this 4 min video:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtMfiWDQHT8 Before getting into detail let's have a glance at the entire process at once. 1.Growing Cocoa Beans Chocolate begins with cocoa beans, the fruit of the...

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Types of Chocolate

Types of Chocolate

Unsweetened Chocolate Pure chocolate without added sugar. Also known as: bitter chocolate, baking chocolate, chocolate liquor, and pure chocolate. Uses: Used almost exclusively for baking. Bittersweet Chocolate Legally, at least 35 percent pure chocolate with some...

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Cocoa butter, White Chocolate and its applications

Cocoa butter, White Chocolate and its applications

Cocoa butter, also called theobroma oil, is a pale-yellow, edible vegetable fat extracted from the cocoa bean. It is used to make chocolate, as well as some ointments, toiletries, and pharmaceuticals.Cocoa butter has a cocoa flavour and aroma. Its best-known attribute...

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Kitchen Organisation

Kitchen Organisation

The brigade system was instituted by Escoffier to streamline and simplify work in hotel kitchens. It served to eliminate the chaos and duplication of effort that could result when workers did not have clear-cut responsibilities. Under this system, each position has a...

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Production Planning

Production Planning

Production Planning Production planning and control refer to two strategies that work cohesively throughout the manufacturing process. Production planning involves what to produce, when to produce it, how much to produce, and more. A long-term view of production...

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Production Scheduling

Production Scheduling

Production scheduling Production scheduling has become a must for manufacturing operations that wish to take their production facility to the next level. Production scheduling is the allocation of resources, events, and processes to create goods and services. A...

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Forecasting & Budgeting: Kitchen Production Management

Forecasting & Budgeting: Kitchen Production Management

This content is to be customised in kitchen context. Comparison Chart BASIS FOR COMPARISON BUDGET FORECAST Meaning A budget is a financial plan expressed in quantitative terms, prepared by the management in advance for the forthcoming period. Forecast means estimation...

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Yield Management: Kitchen Production Management

Yield Management: Kitchen Production Management

Yield in culinary terms refers to how much you will have a finished or processed product. Professional recipes should always state a yield; for example, a tomato soup recipe may yield 15 L, and a muffin recipe may yield 24 muffins. Yield can also refer to the amount...

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Introduction to Product Research and Development

Introduction to Product Research and Development

Let's first look at what does Product Research & Development means in general then we will look at it in Food Production context:- Research and development (R&D) refer to the investigative activities a business conducts to improve existing products and...

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Testing new equipment: Product Research and Development

Testing new equipment: Product Research and Development

TESTING NEW EQUIPMENT Any new equipment launched in the market has to be first tested for its performance and efficiency. To do this, the company which launches its new product in the market has to show the clients the worthiness of the new product. Whenever new...

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Developing new Recipes: Product Research and Development

Developing new Recipes: Product Research and Development

DEVELOPING NEW RECIPES Eating habits of people have changed around the world. To be on top of the business and to be modern and updated, one must constantly develop new products, new processes and new ways. Developing new recipes is a common feature in almost all...

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Food Trails: Product Research and Development

Food Trails: Product Research and Development

Evaluating food by a panel of specialists or consumers for critiquing is termed as a food trial. Food trials can be of different types- Trials while opening a new establishment, or introducing new dishes or menu to existing establishment. Food trials are done for two...

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Common Culinary Terminology Used in French Cooking

Common Culinary Terminology Used in French Cooking

French culinary terms are an essential aspect of cooking and baking, especially in professional kitchens and culinary schools. These terms provide precision and clarity in recipes, helping to ensure that the final product turns out as intended. They also preserve the...

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Larder terminology & Vocabulary

Larder terminology & Vocabulary

COMMON TERMS USED IN THE LARDER  Aging: Holding meats in coolers under controlled conditions to allow natural tenderizing to take place. AP required: As-purchased amount necessary to yield the desired EP weight. AP required is computed as EP required divided by yield...

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