Commonly refers to a rib roast, a cut of beef from the rib section. Even thought the word "prime" is in the name, it's not required that the beef is prime grade for this particular cut.

Also known as green pea and garden pea, this is the fresh, green, round seed inside a pea pod.

When sugar syrup is cooked, water evaporates and sugar concentration increases as well as the temperature of the syrup. The hard-crack stage is when a bit of syrup dropped into cold water solidifies into brittle threads that break when bent. The temperature of the boiling sugar syrup at this stage is between 300°-310°F.

A kitchen utensil made of metal that resembles a large garlic press, used to mash cooked potatoes and other soft foods into small pieces about the width of a grain of rice. Cooked food is placed in the container and pushed through many small holes in the bottom of the container by a lever-operated plunger.