User Guide - Cuisinart SFP-13 Instruction And Recipe Booklet

USER GUIDE

You can slice, shred and chop a multitude of vegetables and fruits in the Cuisinart
you may not know is that the food processor is the perfect tool for a number of other tasks, such as soften-
ing butter, making breadcrumbs, making baby food, etc. Here is a guide that will help you in preparing just
about anything!
TIP: To avoid overflow of food, please note recommended max capacity (chart on page 2)
for each type of food. All capacities are not equal.
FOOD TOOL
Soft Cheeses Chopping/Mixing Blade
(ricotta, cream
cheese, cottage
cheese, etc.)
Firm Cheeses Slicing or Shredding
(Cheddar, Swiss, Disc
Edam, Gouda,
etc.)
Hard Cheeses Chopping/Mixing Blade
(Parmesan,
Slicing or Shredding
Romano, etc.)
Disc
Baby Food Chopping/Mixing Blade
Butter Chopping/Mixing Blade
Slicing or Shredding
Disc
Crumbs (Bread, Chopping/Mixing Blade
Cookie, Cracker,
Chip)
Fresh Herbs Chopping/Mixing Blade
Ground Meat Chopping/Mixing Blade
"Ice Cream" Chopping/Mixing Blade
SPEED DIRECTIONS
Low to Have cheese at room temperature. When applicable, cut into
gently mix 1-inch pieces. Process until smooth, stopping to scrape down
or High to the sides of the bowl as needed. Perfect for making
whip cheesecakes, dips, pasta fillings and more.
High Cheese should be well chilled before slicing/shredding.
Cut to fit feed tube. Use light to medium pressure when slicing/
shredding.
Pulse If using the chopping blade, cut into ½-inch pieces.
and High Pulse to break up and then process until finely grated.
This will produce a nice grated cheese. If slicing or shredding,
cut to fit feed tube. Use light to medium pressure when
slicing/shredding.
Pulse As for all fruit and vegetable purées, cut ingredients into
and High ½- to 1-inch pieces. Steam ingredients until completely soft.
Pulse to chop, then process until completely smooth
(add steaming liquid through the feed tube when processing if
necessary). Keeps frozen in ice cube trays for individual 1-ounce
portions.
High For creaming : Have butter at room temperature. Cut into 1-inch
pieces. Process, scraping bowl as necessary. For compound
(flavored) butters, process flavoring ingredients, such as herbs,
zest, vegetables, etc., before adding butter. For shredding/slicing :
Freeze briefly. Use light to medium pressure to shred or slice.
Shredded butter is great for preparing certain pastry doughs.
Sliced butter is great for serving alongside corn on the cob or
freshly made rolls.
Pulse Break into pieces. Pulse to break up, and then process until
and High desired consistency. This will make perfect bread/cracker/chip
crumbs for coating meats and fish. Processed cookies make
delicious pie and cake crusts.
Pulse Wash and dry herbs thoroughly. Pulse to roughly chop. Continue
pulsing until desired consistency is achieved.
Cut meat into 1-inch pieces. Pulse to chop, about 25 long
Pulse
pulses, or until desired consistency is achieved. If a purée
is desired, continue to process. Never chop/purée more than
2 pounds at one time. Make sure to never process meat
containing bones.
Pulse Put frozen fruit cut into 1-inch pieces into the work bowl, with
and High liquid (juice or milk), any desired sweeteners, such as sugar,
honey, simple syrup and other flavors. Pulse to break up.
Process until smooth.
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