Cooking & Recipes Glossary: J

jícama: Round, brown-skinned root vegetable with white flesh; primarily a texture food because its flavor is rather bland.

Japanese cucumber: A type of cucumber with a thin skin and almost no seeds; they’re not watery.

jar lifter: A plastic-coated tool specially made for lifting canning jars into and out of a canning kettle.

jelly roll pan: A 15-x-10-inch shallow rectangular baking pan. Usually used to hold batters that are filled and rolled.

Job’s Tears: A tall, tropical plant (Coix lachryma-jobi) that produces a grain that’s gluten-free. Also called coix seed, hato mugi, and adlai.

julienne: To cut into thin strips.