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UNIT 4. CANNING
Exercise 4. Discuss with your groupmates the method of smoking fish at home. Is it really worth doing? Is it easy and safe?
Smoking fish at home
Exercise 3. Read the text once without using a dictionary.
While hot-smoking a fish on a grill is cooked, cold-smoked fish is merely preserved. There's not much heat getting to it, and in a perfect world it stays cold. But even cold smoke kills surface bacteria and helps to create a protective barrier for the fish.
But most at-home chefs stick to hot smoking. Here's an easy method to try.
Get a couple of small to medium sized rainbow trout. Clean them and butterfly them so they lie skin down with the meat opened toward the sky. Add a sprinkle of salt and pepper, but don't over do it. Smoke will provide most of the flavor in this application.
Put the fish on the rack that hangs inside your grill. They won't need to be close to the flame. They just need to have plenty of room around them for the smoke to circulate.
Build 6 or 7 little wood chip boats out of aluminum foil and fill them each with hardwood chips that have soaked over night in water. Play around with the wood you have available in your area. For trout, I like applewood. But mesquite and hickory are good choices, too.
Turn the heat up until it's hot enough to get the chips smoking. If one packet burns all the way up, replace it with a fresh one. Repeat until your fish is done.
There are other methods, but this one is easy and tasty. One easy upgrade is to add a glaze for your fish. We can save that for another day.
Exercise 1. a) Read and translate international words without a dictionary:
an objective, vacuum, an origin, sterilization, a roll, to roll, a procedure, minimum, principle, adequate, reasonable, defective, a test, to test, automatic, mechanically.
b) Check if you remember the meaning of these words:
to remove, to invent, to depend, advantage, disadvantage, to cause, to steam, steam, dry, to dry, to replace, to lessen, trimming, preliminary, continuous.
c) Read and translate the following word combinations:
ancient method, the strength of the brine, excess moisture, the net weight, the eviscerated fish, mechanical filling, a frying process, volume of liquid, a process of heating foods, vacuum-sealing devices, the development of oxidized flavours, destruction of vitamins, the size and fatness of the fish, the heat treatment, to remove air, the final cooking, the preliminary sealed container, defective seams.
d) Give all the possible synonyms to the following words:
a can, to seal, to store, uniform, to comprise, to lessen, to ensure, destruction, air-tight, vital, to remove, device.
Exercise 2. Read and memorize the words from the text below:
| draw out, v | удалять, выводить |
| subsequent, adj | последующий |
| exhausting, n | эксгаустирование |
| supplement, n, v | а) добавление, дополнение б) добавлять, дополнять |
| accomplish, v | завершать |
| indefinitely, adv | в течение длительного времени |
| insufficiency, n | недостаточность, нехватка |
| gasket, n | уплотнитель |
| designate, v | называть, определять |
| secure, v, adj | а) охранять, защищать, оберегать б) безопасный, надёжный |
| customary, adj | обычный, привычный |
| flange, n | фланец; кромка |
| leak, n, v | а) течь, протечка; утечка; б) пропускать жидкость, иметь течь |
| lacquered | лакированный |
