Re: [CH] Chile Sauce and growing Poblano questions
Terry Pogue (tpogue@comcast.net)
Tue, 17 May 2011 20:07:10 -0400
They come in several sizes, I have the large chinoise. I used to use it quite a lot for raspberry chipotle sauce that I use a lot. I now can buy it from Fischer and Weiser. It's pricey but tastes as good as the homemade and let mess. <g> I still use it when I want a really silken sauce.
terry
On May 17, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Mike Chester wrote:
> This is correct. It was originally called a China Cap and still is sometimes. Apparently at some point someone thought that it looked like a Chinaman's cap.
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> Mike
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> It's called a chinois. Mine has a handle, hooks on the other side to
> rest on the vessel being strained into, and a wooden pestle to aid in
> pushing the material through.
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> Oddly enough there was a Chinese proverb at the bottom of this post. I
> think chinois is French for Chinese. :-D
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>>> The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
>>> --Chinese proverb--
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