Cut in" means to distribute small chunks of a solid fat (butter or shortening) into flour before adding the liquid (usually milk or water). You do this using a pastry blender or two knives in a crisscross cutting motion. This technique is used when baking biscuits or pastry so they are tender and flaky. When the dough is baked, the fat melts in pockets which produces the flaky layers.

A standard measuring cup used in recipes is based on 8 fluid ounces = 1 cup. An alternative metric measure would be 8 ounces = 250ml. An alternative would be to weigh sugar etc., in that case, 8 ounces would equal 226.80 grams.

Merchants are often constrained by narrow windows for depositing paper checks into the collection stream. Substitute checks and check image exchange push open those windows. With modest investments on their part, business customers will be able to capture check images upon acceptance, transmitting those electronic check files to their banks 24/7. Good riddance to late-night deposit drops.

It means slicing a roll with a knife blade without loss of material (as opposed to cutting with a saw blade where there are shavings).

Normal cut is straight up and down. Bias cut is when the grain of the fabric flows on the diagonal. This results in a more hip-hugging fit, so avoid if you want to minimize your hips or saddlebags.

A recipe must contain ingredients and the directions for assembling those ingredients. A recipe may contain your suggestions or comments relevant to that recipe. From time to time the Lead Moderator may decide to post an article explaining a recipe or technique in more detail. For this newsgroup, a recipe is defined as a list of ingredients with a set of instructions on how to put those ingredients together.

You can also access our recipe sections. These are at www.vrg.org/recipes and www.vrg.org/journal. VRG also publishes several cookbooks including Simply Vegan, Conveniently Vegan, Meatless Meals for Working People, The Lowfat Jewish Vegetarian Cookbook, Vegan Handbook, and more. You can also go to the search engine of your choice and type in "vegetarian recipes" and you will discover thousands of websites.

Salsas are usually mixtures of acid and low-acid ingredients; they are an example of an acidified food. The specific recipe, and sometimes preparation method, will determine if a salsa can be processed in a boiling water canner or a pressure canner. A process must be scientifically determined for each recipe. To can salsa at home, use our recipes for Hot Chile Salsa or Mexican Tomato Sauce. Your county Extension agent may have additional tested recipes for salsas.

Fragrant: Some peonies provide a complimentary scent both in your garden and your home. Especially look for ???cut' flowers if you choose to bring scent into your home. Cut: Useful for vase applications. Be sure to cut early in the morning and follow our ???Peony Care' tips. Landscape: Peonies that provide wonderful bush/shrub like attributes in your garden. Foliage is crisp and clean up until the first hard frost.

Die cut means that the design is the only part of the vinyl sticker you see. All the vinyl around the design is removed.

Well apparently it has to do with something called gene expression, which refers to the pattern in which genes are switched on and off. And gene expression has a major effect on your body's biological processes. Each cell in your body contains a 'power-factory' that produces energy, called the mitochondria.

This is a technique used with delicate foods to prevent overcooking. It indicates that food sould be "cooked" only until the pressure regulator begins to rock and then the pressure cooker should be cooled according to recipe instructions. (With Presto Pride® and Presto® Professional units, you should release pressure immediately after pressure cooker reaches cooking pressure.)

The quickest way to do this is to select recipes in the recipe selection window and press To Editor toolbar button on that window, then press either NYC generic or Meal-Master, depending on the text format you want to use for the newsgroup post. Copy-paste from this editor window into your newsgroup article. You need not exit NYC to do this.

Unigrit" is a feature that describes the size and distribution of the particles on our Unigrit Finishing Paper???With that said, the benefits of "Unigrit" are the uniform marks left behind by the paper. With that said, "Unigrit" refers to the mechanical particles in M86, which is a very unique type of aluminum oxide. It is very uniform in shape, size and hardness. This makes them "Unigrit" allowing a very "level" cutting action.

Some producers of green grass juice powder plant their crops, grow them until just before they enter the reproductive cylce, and cut the leaves when they contain the wides spectrum of nutrients. Then, instead of planting new crops, they simply allow the plants to continue growing and cut them a second time before they enter the reproductive cycle. Through laboratory analysis, AIM discovered that taking two or more cuttings from the same plants compromised their nutritional density.

For raster images, it means that no additional processing such as quantizing or removing orphan dots is needed. For vector images it means each set of vectors to be cut from a given piece of material is alone in its own layer. That is, each layer is ready to cut as it is.