Cuisinart HM-70BCS, Instruction Booklet

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QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
Mixing T echniques
The Power Advantage
®
PLUS Hand Mixer
should always be set on the lowest speed
when you start mixing.
NOTE: The chef’s whisk attachment
is used only for light whipping. For all
other mixing tasks, use the beaters or dough
hooks.
Speed 1
• Ultra-slow mixing to combine and aerate
dry ingredients without splatters
• Add nuts, chips, dried fruit to cookie
doughs/cake batters
• Fold delicate cr eams and egg whites
into batters
• Start mixing fr ostings
• Stir sauces/gravies
• Mix muf fins/pancakes
• Start mixing/whipping liquids
Speed 2
• Cr eam cold (not frozen) butter and sugar
• Mash potatoes/squash
• Add dry ingr edients to batters/doughs
Speed 3
• Start mixing cake mixes
• Add dry ingr edients alternately
with liquid ingredients
• Start cr eaming softened butter
and sugar
Speed 4
• Mix cookie dough
• Whip potatoes/squash
• Finish cr eaming softened butter
and sugar
• Add eggs to batters/doughs
Speed 5
• Heavy cr eam cheese
• Finish beating butter cr eam frostings
Speed 6
• Whip cr eam
• Finish beating cake mixes
Speed 7
• Beat whole eggs/yolks until thick
and light
• Mix thick batters
• Add sugar to whipped egg whites
for meringues
Mixing Tips
• Always r ead entire r ecipe and measure all
ingredients befor e beginning the mixing
process.
• For best r esults, do not measure flour
directly fr om the bag. Pour into a container
or bowl, scoop out the flour and level with
the back of a knife or spatula. For flour
stored in a container , stir before measur -
ing.
• Eggs, butter and cr eam cheese combine
more thor oughly at room temperatur e.
• Remove butter for r ecipe from r efrigerator
first and cut into ½-inch pieces, then mea-
sure out r emaining ingredients for r ecipe.
This will hasten the warming process. Do
not warm butter for baking in a microwave
unless instructed to do so. Microwaving
can melt butter; melted butter will change
the final product.
• The best cheesecakes ar e made when the
eggs and cream cheese ar e at a similar
room temperatur e. While the Cuisinart
®
Power Advantage
®
PLUS Hand Mixer can
easily mix cold cream cheese, the trick is
not to add too much air, which can cause
cracking.
• For best r esults, use heavy cream, cold
from the r efrigerator, for whipped cr eam.
• Chocolate chips, nuts, raisins, etc. can be
added using speeds 1 or 2 of your hand
mixer.
• To separate eggs for any recipe, br eak one
at a time into a small bowl, gently remove
yolk, then transfer egg white to spotlessly
clean mixing bowl. If a yolk breaks into the
egg white, reserve that egg for another
use. Just a drop of egg yolk will pr event
the whites from whipping pr operly.
• To achieve the highest volume of egg
whites, the mixing bowl and chef’s whisk
attachment or beaters must be spotlessly
clean and free of any fat, oil, etc. For best
results, use a spotlessly clean stainless
steel or glass mixing bowl. If available, use
a copper mixing bowl. (Plastic bowls are
not recommended for whipping egg
whites.) The presence of any trace
of fat or oil will prevent the egg whites