Derzsényi Ágnes Reading and Writing Skills MY NEEDS - Part1 Succulent: fruit, vegetable or meat- containing a lot of juice and tasting good Thyme: plant with small leaves that have a sweet smell and are used in cooking as a herb (kakukkfű) Parsley: a plant with curly green leaves that are used in cooking as a herb and to decorate food (petrezselyem) Drizzle: to pour a small amount of liquid over the surface of sth Garlic: a vegetable of the onion family with a very strong taste and smell used in cooking to give flavour to food (fokhagyma) Chives: the long, thin leaves of a plant with purple flowers. Chives tastes like onion and are used to give flavours to food (metélőhagyma) Clementine: fruit like a small orange (mandarin) TBSP: tablespoon TSP:teaspoon Zest: the outer skin of an orange or a lemon, etc. when it is used to give flavour in cooking Grater: a kitchen utensil, with a rough surface used for grating food into small pieces Sift: to put flour or some other fine substance through a sieve (sieve: wire or plastic net attached to a ring) Ginger: the root of the ginger plant is used in cooking as spice (gyömbér) Blend: to mix two or more substances together Electric whisk: a kitchen utensil used for stirring eggs, etc very fast Mingle: to combine or make one thing to combine with another Icing sugar: fine white powder made from sugar that is mixed with water to make icing (icing: sweet mixture of sugar and water, milk, butter or egg white that is used to cover and decorate cakes) Stir: to move a liquid or substance around, using a spoon or something similar in order to mix it thoroughly Yolk: the round yellow part in the middle of an egg Leek: a vegetable like a long onion with many layers of wide, flat leaves that are white at the bottom and green at the top. Leeks are eaten cooked. The leek is a national symbol of Wales. Trim: to make something neater, smaller, better…etc. by cutting parts from it / to cut away unnecessary parts from something Flapjack: a thick soft biscuit made from oats, butter, sugar, and syrup Mincemeat: a mixture of dried fruit, spices…etc. used especially for making pies Yeast: used in making beer and wine or to make bread rise Rosemary: a bush with small narrow leaves that smell sweet and are used in cooking as a herb (rozmaring) Knead: to press and stretch dough, wet clay etc. with your hands to make it ready to use Sage: a plant with flat, light green leves that have a strong smell and are used in cooking as a herb (zsálya) Simmer: to cook something by keeping it almost at boiling point Fudge: a type of soft, brown sweet Evaporated milk: thick, sweet milk sold in cans often served with friut instead of cream Caster sugar: white sugar in the form of very fine grains, used in cooking and decorating cakes | 
