收录于话题
#命题素材
本文全文摘选自Reader's Digest USA读者文摘(February_2022)，适合改编为高考“阅读理解B篇或语法填空”，可供高中英语学习交流使用。
The Hottest Kitchen Tip? Freezing
最热门的厨房建议? 冷冻
— ByKate Lowenstein and Daniel Gritzer
Kate Lowenstein is a health journalist and the editor-in-chief at Vice; Daniel Gritzer is the culinary director of the cooking site Serious Eats.
Our ability to make things extremely cold has granted us modern luxuries such as ice water, Popsicles, and, most important, a way to keep food from rotting. But there’s more to freezing than meets the eye, and chefs and mixologists have been making magic with subzero temperatures for centuries. You can cryoblanch herbs such as basil for more flavorful pesto, cryo-shuck bivalves such as clams (which pop open as they thaw), and cryo-tenderize notoriously tough seafood such as octopus (thanks to ice crystals that make micro-tears throughout the meat). Freezing also makes it much easier to thinly slice meats and dice slippery pork fat.
New York chef Lucas Sin has been popularizing long-held techniques from northeastern China that involve freezing different foods, including Asian pears, sweet potatoes, and tofu. The cold alters their texture, sweetness levels, and juiciness in interesting and delicious ways. Tofu becomes spongier and better absorbs the liquid it’s cooked in. Asian pears become soft and juicy once the ice crystals defrost, taking on a poached texture while maintaining their fresh flavor. Sweet potatoes, which are roasted after freezing, come out sweeter and more caramelized.
Ultra-cold temperatures are also the secret to making apple-based liquors. Behold applejack, a high-proof alcohol sold in stores that’s seasonal and warming in this delicious hot toddy recipe. Applejack is made from freezing hard cider and progressively removing more and more of the water as it ices over, leaving the alcohol behind. What’s left is a concentrated solution with quite the boozy punch— similar to distillation but without the need for a still, fire, and the technical know-how that the traditional evaporation-based method requires. In a cold climate, you can leave your hard cider out in the wintertime deep freeze and “jack” it into something that resembles a spirit. If that’s not the epitome of cool, we don’t know what is.（324words）
点击下方链接马上学习
高中
【短文记单词】人教必修1: Units 1-5 同步词汇 |
| 【短文记单词】人教必修2: Units 1-5 同步词汇 |
| 【高中新人教】必修1 Units 1-5 教学资源包 |
| 【高中新人教】必修1 Units 1-5 知识清单+巩固练习+答案 |
| 【高中新人教】必修1 Units 1-5 名师在线课堂 |
| 【高中新人教】选择性必修1 Units 1-5名师在线课堂 |
| 【收藏备用】2022年全国优质模拟题专项组合精选（42个主题） |
| 【收藏备用】2022年全国优质模拟题语法填空精选（共32篇） |
初中
【暑假预习】新目标七年级上册各单元单词+课文+听力录音（含录音材料）
|
| 【暑假预习】新目标八年级上册各单元单词+课文+听力录音（含录音材料） |
| 【暑假预习】新目标九年级全一册各单元单词+课文+听力录音（含录音材料） |
【新初一暑假预习】新目标七年级上册各单元必考知识点（可打印）
|
| 【新初二暑假预习】新目标八年级上册各单元必考知识点（可打印） |
| 【新初三暑假预习】新目标九年级全一册各单元必考知识点（可打印） |
| 【名师优课】新目标七年级上册 Units 1-9 北京名师视频课 |
【名师优课】新目标八年级上册 Units 1-10 北京名师视频课
|
| 【名师优课】新目标九年级全一册Units 1-14 北京名师视频课 |
收藏
