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BUTTERFLY CUT [1 record]

Record 1 2008-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Culinary Techniques
  • Meats and Meat Industries
DEF

To halve food horizontally without cutting all the way through it so that it resembles the wings of a butterfly or the pages of a book.

OBS

This is usually done for foods, such as pork tenderloin, that are to be stuffed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques culinaires
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie

Spanish

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