LCB Basic Cuisine Exam 2025 – Culinary Fundamentals Study Guide & Practical
Review
Quality Points of Buying Fish - correct answer ✔✔ Clear bright eyes, bright red gills, shiny moist
skin, firm flesh, sea smell
EX of Flat Fish - correct answer ✔✔ Lemon sole, dover sole, halibut, brill, tubot
EX of Round Fish - correct answer ✔✔ Anchovies, salmon, trout, branzino
Troncon - correct answer ✔✔ Cut across a flat fish w bone
Average Oyster growth time - correct answer ✔✔ 2 - 4 yrs
Vermouth - correct answer ✔✔ an aromatized white wine in which herbs, roots, barks, bitters,
and other flavorings have been steeped.
Byssus - correct answer ✔✔ Mussel beard
Mariniere - correct answer ✔✔ Shellfish cooked in shallots, white wine and parsley
Crab anatomy - correct answer ✔✔ 5 pairs of legs including claws / pincers
What family are crabs from? - correct answer ✔✔ Crustacean
What is Worcestershire sauce made from? - correct answer ✔✔ Anchovies
,Paupiettes - correct answer ✔✔ Sole fillets that are folded on themselves
Foumet - correct answer ✔✔ Bones and mirepoix are sweated in butter
**Stock isn't sweated**
Collagen - correct answer ✔✔ Protein found in bones, skin and connective tissue
Chef Adolphe Dugléré - correct answer ✔✔ Created Pommes Anna Chicken Albuferia, Sorrel
Soup
Monte au beurre - correct answer ✔✔ To finish a sauce or soup by swirling in raw butter until it
is melted -- makes sauce shiny
Dartoise - correct answer ✔✔ 2 rectangles of puff pastry
Cartuche - correct answer ✔✔ circle of parchment paper that entraps steam and slows down
reduction
Bicarbonate Soda - correct answer ✔✔ A chemical raising agent that produces carbon dioxide.
Contains acid & starch.
Herbs de Provence - correct answer ✔✔ Savory oregano, rosemary, thyme, basil
Derivatives of mayonnaise - correct answer ✔✔ Chantilly, cocktail, tartare
Types of offal - correct answer ✔✔ Anything not attached to bone:
, Liver, kidney, brain, cheek, tounge
On which animals do we commonly eat the Thymus gland? - correct answer ✔✔ Lamb
(sweetbread) and veal
Other names Salsify is known as? - correct answer ✔✔ Black oyster, scorzonera, viper grass
Why do we squeeze potatoes for Darphin? - correct answer ✔✔ Remove starch and water
How to make sweet pastry? - correct answer ✔✔ Sieve, soften, mix, cream, knead twice
Types of citrus fruits - correct answer ✔✔ orange, lemon, kumquat, Buddha's hand, ugli fruit
Pink pralines - correct answer ✔✔ Made from almonds covered in hardened sugar
Iles Flottantes - correct answer ✔✔ French meringue
Creme Angalise - correct answer ✔✔ Custard cooked to 82 C
What part of pig is ham from? - correct answer ✔✔ Upper leg
How long is soft-coddled egg cooked for? - correct answer ✔✔ 6 min in boiled water
Florentine - correct answer ✔✔ Spinach
Review
Quality Points of Buying Fish - correct answer ✔✔ Clear bright eyes, bright red gills, shiny moist
skin, firm flesh, sea smell
EX of Flat Fish - correct answer ✔✔ Lemon sole, dover sole, halibut, brill, tubot
EX of Round Fish - correct answer ✔✔ Anchovies, salmon, trout, branzino
Troncon - correct answer ✔✔ Cut across a flat fish w bone
Average Oyster growth time - correct answer ✔✔ 2 - 4 yrs
Vermouth - correct answer ✔✔ an aromatized white wine in which herbs, roots, barks, bitters,
and other flavorings have been steeped.
Byssus - correct answer ✔✔ Mussel beard
Mariniere - correct answer ✔✔ Shellfish cooked in shallots, white wine and parsley
Crab anatomy - correct answer ✔✔ 5 pairs of legs including claws / pincers
What family are crabs from? - correct answer ✔✔ Crustacean
What is Worcestershire sauce made from? - correct answer ✔✔ Anchovies
,Paupiettes - correct answer ✔✔ Sole fillets that are folded on themselves
Foumet - correct answer ✔✔ Bones and mirepoix are sweated in butter
**Stock isn't sweated**
Collagen - correct answer ✔✔ Protein found in bones, skin and connective tissue
Chef Adolphe Dugléré - correct answer ✔✔ Created Pommes Anna Chicken Albuferia, Sorrel
Soup
Monte au beurre - correct answer ✔✔ To finish a sauce or soup by swirling in raw butter until it
is melted -- makes sauce shiny
Dartoise - correct answer ✔✔ 2 rectangles of puff pastry
Cartuche - correct answer ✔✔ circle of parchment paper that entraps steam and slows down
reduction
Bicarbonate Soda - correct answer ✔✔ A chemical raising agent that produces carbon dioxide.
Contains acid & starch.
Herbs de Provence - correct answer ✔✔ Savory oregano, rosemary, thyme, basil
Derivatives of mayonnaise - correct answer ✔✔ Chantilly, cocktail, tartare
Types of offal - correct answer ✔✔ Anything not attached to bone:
, Liver, kidney, brain, cheek, tounge
On which animals do we commonly eat the Thymus gland? - correct answer ✔✔ Lamb
(sweetbread) and veal
Other names Salsify is known as? - correct answer ✔✔ Black oyster, scorzonera, viper grass
Why do we squeeze potatoes for Darphin? - correct answer ✔✔ Remove starch and water
How to make sweet pastry? - correct answer ✔✔ Sieve, soften, mix, cream, knead twice
Types of citrus fruits - correct answer ✔✔ orange, lemon, kumquat, Buddha's hand, ugli fruit
Pink pralines - correct answer ✔✔ Made from almonds covered in hardened sugar
Iles Flottantes - correct answer ✔✔ French meringue
Creme Angalise - correct answer ✔✔ Custard cooked to 82 C
What part of pig is ham from? - correct answer ✔✔ Upper leg
How long is soft-coddled egg cooked for? - correct answer ✔✔ 6 min in boiled water
Florentine - correct answer ✔✔ Spinach
