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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 1
INSTRUCTION AND
RECIPE BOOKLET
™
Limited Edition Metal Ultimate Food Prep Centre MP-14C
For your safety and continued enjoyment of this product, always read the instruction book carefully before using.
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 2 Recommended work bowl capacity for various foods FOOD CAPACITY Chopped and Puréed 14 cups (3.5L) Fruits and Vegetables Chopped or Puréed 2-1/4 pounds Meat, Poultry, Fish or Seafood Bread Dough 3 pounds [6 cups (1.5L) flour, yielding two 1-1/2 pound loaves] Nuts for Nut Butters 3 cups (750ml) Sliced or Shredded 14 cups (3.5L) Fruit, Cheese, or Vegetables Cake Batter batter for 5 8-inch layers Cookie Dough dough for 90 cookies
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 3 of the foam block. 12. Remove the base and IMPORTANT Remove beaters (D) bowl together by UNPACKING on the other side of grasping the plastic the foam block. bowl at the top with INSTRUCTIONS Remove whisk both hands and lifting adapter (E). the bowl straight up. This package contains a Do not rotate the ® Cuisinart Limited Edition 6. The plastic spatula bowl clockwise on the ™ (F) is on the corner of Metal Ultimate Food Prep base. This will cause the
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS IMPORTANT SAFEGUARDS. . . . . . . . . 4 TECHNIQUES FOR SLICING INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 AND SHREDDING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 THE MACHINE INCLUDES. . . . . . . . . . 6 Small, round fruits and vegetables . . 12 ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . 6 Long fruits and vegetables . . . . . . . 12 THE MACHINE FUNCTIONS . . . . . . . . 7 Small amounts of food . . . . . . . . . . 12 OPERATING INSTRUCTION
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 5 Carefully Read All These while processing food, to General prevent the possibility of Instructions Before Using 1. Close supervision is severe personal injury or This Appliance. necessary when any damage to food proces- appliance is used by sor. A plastic scraper or near children. may be used, but only IMPORTANT when the food processor 2. Do not operate this, or motor is stopped. SAFEGUARDS any other motor-driven 2. Avoid contact with appliance,
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 6 INTRODUCTION Congratulations on your Whisk Attachment ® purchase of the Cuisinart ™ Limited Edition Metal Ultimate Food Prep Centre. This product is the ultimate food preparation tool, and it comes from the originator ® of the American food PowerPrep Metal Dough Blade processor, Cuisinart. ® The Cuisinart Limited ™ Edition Metal Ultimate Chopping/Mixing Food Prep Centre has all Blade the elements of quality that Cuisinart is known for, including a
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 7 ® The Power Prep Metal 3. Upon contact, the large THE MACHINE Dough Blade is specifically pusher meets an INCLUDES: designed to work in activating rod in the conjunction with our centre of the work bowl 1. Cast metal housing DOUGH control. handle, permitting the base with a vertically motor to start. One touch of the DOUGH projecting shaft and button makes “perfect The whisk attachment adds convenient push button dough in seconds”. volume to egg wh
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 8 Disc Operation 4. Then press the ON or THE MACHINE PULSE buttons as 1. Plug in the housing base FUNCTIONS: needed to process and place the work bowl DOUGH. The ON light on top, with the work PULSE will turn on. bowl handle just to the 1. With the machine left of centre. Turn the 5. Press the OFF properly assembled work bowl counter-clock- button when finished. and engaged, and wise to lock it onto the ingredients in the housing base. OPERATING
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 9 texture. Onions and other methods. Be sure your To purée fruits and food with a high water hands are dry. cooked vegetables: content will quickly end First, cut the food into Grab the blade hub, and up as a purée unless 1-inch (2.5cm) pieces. remove the metal blade examined through the before tilting the bowl, work bowl after each You get a smoother purée using a spatula to scrape pulse to make sure they faster when all pieces are off any food. The
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 10 cupful this way, add the To chop peel from citrus texture. Scrape the bowl remaining food to the bowl fruit or to chop sticky with a spatula as needed. and process in the usual fruit like dates or raisins: Leave the chopped mixture manner. For citrus, remove only in the work bowl and add the peel with a vegetable eggs, liquid and season- To chop hard foods: peeler, not the white pith ings as called for by the To chop hard food like garlic which is b
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 11 The longer you process, Process the yolks or egg watching carefully for the softer the butter. For with salt, mustard and 2 the desired consistency. chunk style, add a handful tablespoons of vegetable For consistently reliable of nuts just after the ball of oil for at least 30 seconds results, add 2 tablespoons nut butter begins to smooth using the ON button. Then, (30 ml) of nonfat dry milk out. To make cashew but- while the machine is run- for ev
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 12 or it will be overworked and cakes to be tough. (If your Round fruits and tough. Form into a round recipe calls for ingredients vegetables: disc, one inch thick, and that are to be coarsely Before processing onions, wrap in plastic wrap. chopped – like raisins or apples and other large, Refrigerate for 1 hour nuts – add them last with round fruits and vegeta- before using, or double the mixed dry ingredients.) bles, cut the bottom ends wrap and fre
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 13 The optional 2mm and 2. Slide the pusher Small, round fruits 1mm slicing discs are into place, and apply and vegetables: excellent for slicing cabbage pressure to the pusher For large berries, radishes for coleslaw. while pressing down the and mushrooms, trim the PULSE button. Release bottom ends flat with a If the fruit or vegetable the button as soon knife. Insert the food doesn’t fit, try inserting it as the food is sliced through the feed tu
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 14 French-cut green beans: technique works better with Stand the pieces in the square or rectangular pieces feed tube and apply light Trim fresh green beans to than with round ones. pressure to the pusher. feed tube widths. Blanching not necessary. Stack in the Uncooked meat IMPORTANT: Never try and poultry: to slice soft cheese like feed tube horizontally to mozzarella or hard cheese about one inch from the top. Cut the food into pieces to like pa
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 15 when properly kneaded. Recommended maximum amounts are processed. amount of flour is 6 cups It always cleans the inside (1.5L) of all-purpose flour Measuring the flour: of the work bowl complete- or 3-1/2 cups (875ml) of It’s best to weigh it. If you ly when properly kneaded. whole-grain flour. If a bread don’t have a scale, or the dough calls for more than Typical sweet dough recipe does not specify the recommended amounts contains a higher propor-
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 16 Proofing the yeast: liquid sloshes or splatters, place after removing the stop adding it but do not dough to test it. The expiration date is turn off the machine. Wait marked on the packages. until ingredients in bowl Kneading sweet dough: To be sure your yeast is have mixed, then add Process dough for at active, dissolve it in a small remaining liquid slowly. least 30 seconds after amount of warm liquid Pour liquid onto dough as all the ingredi
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 17 free-form loaves, let them Dough doesn’t clean Dough feels tough inside of work bowl: rise on an oiled baking sheet after kneading: until at least doubled in bulk. • Amount of dough may Divide dough into 2 or 3 exceed maximum capacity pieces and redistribute Making consecutive of your food processor. evenly in bowl. Process 10 batches: Remove half and process seconds or until uniformly in 2 batches. You can make several soft and pliable. batches o
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 18 Do not use warmer water, before being added WATER. The other parts or overheat dough with to work bowl. can be rinsed in hot, soapy excessive kneading as it water and then dried. Metal dough blade rises may kill the yeast cells. All in work bowl: other liquid should be cold. THE PARTS: The power unit is smooth Blade may not have been Don’t knead so long that on top except for the whisk pushed down as far as dough becomes overheat- ejector tab at
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 19 Ultimate Food Prep You are now ready to begin If there is any grease on Centre, with the work using the whisk attachment. the adapter or on the cen- bowl in place, hold the Press the ON lever to acti- tre tube of the work bowl, adapter with the fixed vate rotation. the whisks may not rotate ring at the bottom. Be or the power unit may sure the ring is loose reverse direction. Should REMOVING THE WHISK and not over the sheath. this happen, disassembl
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03CC18070 MP-14C IB 6/17/03 1:55 PM Page 20 This will prevent egg showing than to over to aerate and remove any yolks from getting into mix. lumps. For cake mixes that the saved egg white. use oil, add the oil and eggs. 3. If folding by hand, draw 4. For good results, all a spatula from the cen- Whisk for 15 seconds while tools must be absolutely tre of the bowl toward adding the water through clean, dry and free from you, moving it down in the small feed tube. Scrape any trace of grease or
