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Cooking terms - Letter I

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Idaho Potatoes			IAB: Cottage Cheese and Yogurt.
			Ice lolly: a popsicle.
			Icing sugar: The British name for confectioners sugar or powdered sugar.
Immersion Blender			Idaho potatoes: red potatoes and they are considered the best potato for baking.
			Imitation bacon bits: flavored soy protein that tastes like bacon, but cheaper and lower in fat.
			Immersion blender: cooking tall tool with rotary blades, which are immersed into a pot in order to puree or chop the contents.
Infusion			Imu: traditional pit oven furrowed with rocks and banana leaves used for cooking meats.
			Infusion: culinary method to prepare dried or fresh herbs, which are placed in oil or boiling water, for about ten minutes, until get an infusion.
			Induction cooking:heated cookware with magnetic energy using a special smooth ceramic cooking surface and induction coils.
Irish Oatmeal			Irish oatmeal: also known as Scotch oatmeal. They are cleaned, toasted, hulled, cut in pieces oats, not rolled acquiring a chewy texture.
			Italian Parsley: also known as flat leaf parsley. It has a light peppery flavor in a dark green color; mostly, it is used as garnish, condiment, flavour adding, etc.