* Chocolate can be melted in a bain-marie to avoid splitting and caking onto the pot.

Custard is usually cooked in a double boiler ( bain-marie ), or heated very gently in a saucepan on a stove, though custard can also be steamed, baked in the oven with or without a water bath, or even cooked in a pressure cooker.

In Brazil, it is common to do this by baking the closed can in a bain-marie, the result being doce de leite.

The bain-marie comes in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and types, but traditionally is a wide, cylindrical, usually metal container made of three or four basic parts: a handle, an outer ( or lower ) container that holds the working liquid, an inner ( or upper ), smaller container that fits inside the outer one and which holds the material to be heated or cooked, and sometimes a base underneath.

* Custard may be cooked in a bain-marie to keep a crust from forming on the outside of the custard before the interior is fully cooked.

It should then be reduced until the sauce is quite thick, passed through a chinois strainer into a bain-marie and have added two tablespoons of cream.

A bain-marie (; also known as a water bath in English,,, or ) is a French term for a piece of equipment used in science, industry, and cooking to heat materials gently and gradually to fixed temperatures, or to keep materials warm over a period of time.

When the working liquid is water and the bain-marie is used at sea level, the maximum temperature of the material in the lower container will not exceed 100 degrees Celsius ( 212 F ), the boiling point of water at sea level.

An improvised bain-marie being used to melt chocolate

A double boiler, also known as a bain-marie, is a stove top apparatus used to cook delicate sauces such as beurre blanc, to melt chocolate without burning or seizing, or cook any other thick liquid or porridge that would normally burn if not stirred constantly.

The second method is to use an, porcelain cup or ramekin with a lid used similarly to a bain-marie.

The most common preparation is a bain-marie method where a reduction of vinegar is used to acidify the yolks.

Her name survives in the invention of the water-bath or bain-marie, extensively used in chemical processes in which gentle heat is necessary.

A second, modern usage, for the term porringer is a double saucepan similar to a bain-marie used for cooking porridge.

A contemporary alternative to the traditional, liquid-filled bain-marie is the electric " dry-heat " bain-marie, heated by elements below both pots.

These puddings are made either by simmering on top of the stove in a saucepan or double boiler or by baking in an oven, often in a bain-marie.

Initially it was carried out by direct flame but soon the advantages of a bain-marie or steam distillation to obtain a better product became obvious.

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Usually it is cooked together on the stovetop, but other methods exist including microwaving, steaming, baking ( sometimes in a bain-marie ) or freezing ( using gelatin as a thickener ).

* Cheesecake is often baked in a bain-marie to prevent the top from cracking in the centre.

Next, it is cooked slowly in a bain-marie at 45 ° C while being stirred.

Many variations of this cake are made, but the basic recipe is to mix softened butter at room temperature with sugar ; egg yolks are then added, and once combined, the remaining ingredients are added: finely minced almonds, chocolate melted via bain-marie, and whipped egg whites.

It is a whole-egg cake, unlike some other sponge cakes that beat their yolks and whites of the eggs separately ; the eggs, and sometimes extra yolks, are beaten with sugar and heated at the same time using bain-marie or flame, to a stage known to patissiers as " ribbon stage ".

The bain-marie, or water bath is named for Mary the Jewess.

Under the outer container of the bain-marie ( or built into its base ) is a heat source.

The open, bath-type bain-marie heats via a small, hot-water tub ( or " bath "), and the vapour-type bain-marie heats with scalding-hot steam.

* Classic warm sauces, such as Hollandaise and beurre blanc, requiring heat to emulsify the mixture but not enough to curdle or " split " the sauce, are often cooked using a bain-marie.

* Some charcuterie such as terrines and pâtés are cooked in an " oven-type " bain-marie.

* Thickening of condensed milk, such as in confection-making, is done easily in a bain-marie.

The name comes from the medieval-Latin term balneum ( or balineum ) Mariae — literally, Mary's bath — from which the French bain de Marie, or bain-marie, is derived.

Some special appliances are typical for professional kitchens, such as large installed deep fryers, steamers, or a bain-marie.

* Swiss meringue is whisked over a bain-marie to warm the egg whites, and then whisked steadily until it cools.

Classical zabaione uses raw egg yolks, but today many may prefer to cook the custard in a bain-marie.

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It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

Even as I said it I realized that an education can be invaluable.

Within their confines, moreover, technological and industrial growth has proceeded at an accelerated pace, thus increasing the cornucopia from which material wants can be satisfied.

And no messages can be transmitted on these circuits until senders and receivers authenticate in advance, by special codes, that the messages actually come from their purported sources.

Additional codes can be used to challenge and counterchallenge the authentications.

Nobody can be absolutely certain of the answers.

All can be connected with the gold circuit from their homes.

The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).

Unless all gadgets are properly operated -- and the wires and seals from the handles removed first -- no damage can be done.

I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

An order can be chanced rather than chosen, and this approach produces an experience that is `` free and discovered rather than bound and remembered ''.

And any sequence can not only change its positions in the work but can even be eliminated from it altogether.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.

Similarly experience itself can be conventionalized so that people react to certain preconceived clues for behavior without awareness of the vitality of their experiential field.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

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You've already sent your daughter to Miss X's select academy for girls and your son to Mr. Y's select academy for boys, and you can be as liberal as you please with strict impunity.

In scope and power it can only be compared to Tolstoy's War And Peace.

However, for convenience we will stick to the idea that information can be classified according to Table 1.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.