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Baking
Baking is cooking by dry heat and an art form all on its own. Attributed to the Babylonians, baking food has been around since as far back as 3,000 BC.
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What is the use of a silicone baking mat?
A silicone baking mat is used to keep the pan that is being used from getting dirty from the items being baked as well as allowing for a non-stick surface for items to bake on. This allows whatever may be baking to slide right off without crumbling or breaking into pieces. It can be reused over and over and just needs to be washed after each use.
How do you bake a chiffon cake?
Ingredients 2 cups sifted cake flour 1 1/2 cups white sugar 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup vegetable oil 7 egg yolks 3/4 cup cold water 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon lemon extract 7 egg whites 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 recipe Williamsburg Butter Frosting Directions Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Wash a 10 inch angel food tube pan in hot soapy water to ensure it is totally grease free. Measure flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt into sifter. Sift into bowl. Make a well; add oil, egg yolks, water, vanilla, and lemon flavoring to the well in the order that is given. Set aside. Don't beat. In a large mixing bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar until very stiff. Set aside. Using same beaters, beat egg yolk batter until smooth and light. Pour gradually over egg whites, folding in with rubber spatula. Do not stir. Pour batter into angel food tube pan. Bake for 55 minutes. Increase heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and bake 10 to 15 minutes until done. Invert pan until cool.
What are the different baking utensils and their uses?
The basics and a few nice to have items:
- Several good cook books and a collection of "family" recipes.
-Bowls, various sizes - to mix and or combine ingredients in, hold bread dough while it rises,
- Measuring Cups & Spoons - you will need both dry (these come in a set of gradated sizes) and wet (1 cup and a 4 cup)measuring cups. -dry you fill and level, wet are transparent with gradation marks. Spoons come in a set with gradated sizes, it is handy to have more than one set.
- Baking pans - square, rectangular and round cake pans (several sizes as recipes vary), pie plates, cookie sheets (more than one as you will need lots), muffin tins (big and small), a pizza pan, specialty pans (a bundt cake pan, a tube cake pan, loaf pans large and small, etc.)
- A hand held mixer - for blending, mixing, whipping, creaming, etc. (a counter-top mixer with various beaters and attachments is wonderful, but not an absolute necessity)
- Spatulas - for scraping batter out of bowls.
Some of the less common and/or very handy things you might like are:
- A pastry cutter - to cut lard/shortening into flour for pastry
- A pastry brush - to apply melted butter to baking
- A rolling pin - for flattening pastry, and some cookie doughs
- A whisk (or several of different sizes) - to whip egg whites, cream, some batters and zibagioni.
- Cake decorating basics - an icing knife or spatula, and an icing bag & decorative tips.
Does a potato bake faster with a potato nail inserted through it?
The nails get hot quickly so they bake the potato
What city is famous for its Christmas market?
For all that I can find, it is Nuremburg, Germany!
This city is in Germany. It is called Nuremberg
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Nuremberg, Germany
Nuremberg, Germany is considered the gingerbread capital of the world.
Chipilo, in the state of Puebla.
geneva, switzerland
It is in Germany
What is importance of egg in baking?
Eggs provide coherence to batters and dough, holding other ingredients together. In many pastries eggs also provide leavening by trapping air that is beaten into the egg whites and expands as it heats, causing the pastry to rise.
What is To stir or blend ingredients together?
I think so. The only dif i can think of is when u use a blender or blending machine than a spoon.
How do you bake a birthday cake?
5 STEPS TO A BRILLIANT AND TASTEY CAKE!!!
Baking a cake is pretty easy, but to make it a birthday cake, you need to decide what you want the birthday cake to be yourself. I can tell you how to make a CAKE, but I can't decide the theme for you. Xxx
Ok. You will need:
* Self Raising Flour
* Margerine/Butter
* White Sugar
* 2 Eggs
* Bakery Weighing Scales
* 2 Bowls
* 1 Baking Tin
Before you do ANYTHING, grab that baking tin and smother butter all arround it and put a sheet of parchment paper at the bottom. This helps to stop the cake from sticking.
After that, you pour 12 ounces of Flour into the bowl on top of the weighing scales. When you have your flour weighed out, put the mixture into bowl number 2.
Next, you do the same as you did with the Flour to the Butter and the Sugar.
Fourth, you need to crack the eggs straight into the bowl with the Flour, Butter and Sugar in and wisk it all together until it's creamy and smooth and soft.
Lastly, put all the mixture into the baking tray and stick it into the oven for 1 and a half hours at 180 DFH.
I hope I helped!!!
Does butter affect the size of cookies?
If you are talking about the volume then yes, the more sugar you add the higher the cookie will rise. The less sugar or instead no sugar at all, the cookie will look dull and flat and would have no taste at all. The cookie rises because of the yeast inside the dough of the cookie and yeast feeds on sugar so it expands.
Which side to use tin foil to bake?
An alternative to using tinfoil when baking is cooking parchment or a glass cover (make sure it is oven safe). The tin foil is solely there to block some of the heat from escaping.
Can yeast dough stay in the fridge overnight?
Yes it works just the same, takes longer. I make cinnamon buns in the evening. Pan them as rolls and let them raise in the fridge overnight. Then let them warm on the counter for 20 minutes, pop in the oven and fresh buns for breakfast without getting up at the crack of dawn. I think 8-18 hours in the fridge is fine for a slow rising time.
What are the work simplification techniques for cooking?
There have been many work simplification devices for the kitchen throughout the years. Frozen food and canning were two of the first helpers. Paper towels haven't long been in existence. The refrigerator has undergone many changes since its inception from the old "ice box." For those who don't remember the "ice box," a chunk of ice was placed in a section of the unit, and as it melted had to be drained and replaced with another chunk of ice. Most small communities had "ice houses," where people went to buy their chunks of ice.
Stoves have progressed from the old wood stove, around which people sat to keep warm, to modern electric ranges with built-in and self-cleaning ovens.
Cabinets were also an innovation that have been updated through the years. Almost all kitchens now have a myriad of cabinets up on the walls around the kitchen.
And, fie, the microwave oven has become quite a necessity to us. Many of us use it much more than the conventional oven. Great for heating, defrosting, and cooking certain foods.
The advent of the dishwasher has been a boon, especially for large families.
Washers and dryers for clothes are not often found in the kitchen but have separate quarters.
Recipe calls for 2 extra large eggs and i have large how many do you use?
If it was me, I would just use 4 large eggs. pick the largest of the large. If you are making a specialty recipe where one minor change might make it bake differently, well, then I guess you might want to just buy xlarge. Honestly, I don't know how much of a difference it will make! :) I ad lib recipes all the time! I am not a professional baker but I bake 'from scratch' frequently! Good luck!
What can be used as a substitute for vanilla extract?
Just make it without the vanilla, there is really no substitute except the real vanilla bean, which is really expensive. Some use almond, which is really good but a different flavor. Basically what I am trying to say is, it is a flavor, so you could sub with a little lemon or something of that nature.
What temperature do you bake drumsticks?
350° is a standard baking temperature that works well for baking drumsticks.
Wheat.
More information:
Wheat flour comes from the wheat plant, a grass that originated in the Near East and is now grown throughout the world.
Wheat flour can be milled from different types of wheat for specific purposes; hard or durum wheat for bread baking; soft wheat for cakes; a blend of different wheat for pizza crusts. Whole wheat flour and a variation called Graham flour include the germ and bran of the grain, which contain most of the oil, protein and vitamins. These are removed from white flour, which is then "enriched" with a few artificial vitamins. Most all-purpose flour is chemically bleached, but unbleached white flour is also available.
What will happen if you use too much cream of tartar?
if you add to much cream of tartar the thing that you are cooking will turn into a big rock. Hard as solid
How long do you cook a 7.5 lb ham?
2 1/2 hours. Here's how: Preheat the oven to 325, place the ham on a rack in a baking dish with a little water in the bottom. Wrap in foil, bake for about 2 hours, or until the internal temperature is 135 - 140 degrees. Take off the foil, glaze the ham, if you like, increase the oven temp to 400 and bake for another 20 minutes or so, until the glaze is set.
Suet is simply pieces of fat from animals (beef suet). Ribeye fat is real good. Firm fat layers is best for chopping to make Christmas puddings etc..
Kidney fat was used also.
Now as for bird food known also as suet, you can render fat in boiling water. Solidify fat in freezer but do not freeze or buy lard from the store. Put fat in a mixing bowl add peanut butter, seeds, nuts, berries or whatever the animals you're feeding likes. Line a loaf pan with wax paper spoon in mixture. Chill, remove from pan cut with a knife sat in hot water.
How long does it take to cook parsnip?
Parsnip usually take one year to fully grow. Parsnip is a root vegetable, that is a biennial plant. However, half of the year does not produce a parsnip, but only the root, so it takes a full year for the plant to grow.
