Saturday, October 13, 2012

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How to Make a Homemade Bread


It's All In The Technique
Baking bread is really all about technique. It’s about developing a feel for the ingredients. And you can’t do that without practicing. Let’s all swallow our fear and take a closer look at the magic that is yeast bread. Remember, flour is cheap, so if you really want to do this, get ready to practice.
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Bread

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The word itself, Old English bread, is common in various forms to many Germanic languages, such as Frisian breaDutch broodGerman BrotSwedish bröd, andNorwegian and Danish brød; it has been claimed to be derived from the root of brew. It may be connected with the root of break, for its early uses are confined to broken pieces orbits of bread, the Latin crustum, and it was not until the 12th century that it took the place—as the generic name for bread—of hlaf (𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 [hlaifs] in Gothic: modern Englishloaf), which appears to be the oldest Teutonic name. Old High German hleib[1] and modernGerman Laib derive from this Proto-Germanic word for "loaf", and through borrowing it gave rise to Polish chleb, Russian хлеб (khleb)Finnish leipä and Estonian leib as well.

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12 Steps on How to Bake a Cake



1. Start by reading the ingredient list and directions before you begin

2. Prepare your cake pans.

3. Have all ingredients at room temperature, unless the recipe directs otherwise.

4. Preheat the oven to the required temperature from the recipe.

Measuring the Ingredients

1. Measure ingredients as accurately as possible and add them in the order specified

Mixing the Ingredients

1. Mix the cake batter as specified on the recipe

2. Pour the batter evenly into the prepared pans

Baking

1. Place the pans on the center rack of the preheated oven

2. Close the oven door and immediately set a timer to the specified baking time

3.Check for cake doneness.

Cooling

1. Place the pan on a wire rack to cool for 15 to 30 minutes.

2. Let it cool completely before decorating since the heat will melt frosting and icing

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Cake

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Cake is a form of bread or bread-like food. In its modern forms, it is typically a sweet baked dessert. In its oldest forms, cakes were normally fried breads or cheesecakes, and normally had a disk shape. Determining whether a given food should be classified as bread, cake, or pastry can be difficult.

How to make a better Cupcake

Even the best cooks sometimes find themselves in desperate situations at the 11th hour, say, the night before a son's fourth birthday party at school, where homemade cupcakes were already promised. And resorting to store-bought just isn't an option. Perhaps you ended up with cupcakes that were perfectly done but stuck to the bottom of the pan - how frustrating is that, especially when every step was meticulously followed? Or cupcakes that were underdone. Or lumpy. Or rock hard. 


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Cupcakes

cupcake (also British Englishfairy cakeAustralian Englishpatty cake orcup cake) is a small cake designed to serve one person, frequently baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and othercake decorations, such as sprinkles, are common on cupcakes.

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Homemade Cookies



YUMMY MONSTER COOKIES

SUGAR HEART COOKIES

PLAY DOUGH COOKIES

HAMBURGER COOKIES

DOUGHNUT COOKIES

BUBBLE GUM COOKIES

FLIP-FLOP COOKIES

Tips on Making Cookies Perfect


1. Read your cookie recipe carefully before starting

2. Use good tools and utensils

3. Use correct pan sizes

4. Use top-quality ingredient and assemble the ingredients before starting

5. Room temperature Ingredients

6. Measure the ingredients quantities correctly - Use correct measuring cups and spoons

7. Oven temperature

8. Baking or Cookie Sheets

9. Baking the Cookies

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How to Bake Cookies


INGREDIENTS
  • 1/4 cups flour (280 g)
  • 1 teaspoon salt (4.7 g)
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda (2.3 g)
  • 1 cup butter, softened but not melted (2 standard American sticks / 800 g)
  • You can use sunflower oil as a substitute
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar (165 g)
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar (150 g)
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (5 ml)
  • 1 to 2 cups chocolate chips (168 to 336 g)

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Monday, October 1, 2012

Video Tutorial


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What is Baking?


Baking is a food cooking method using prolonged dry heat acting by convection, and not by thermal radiation, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones.[1] When the desired temperature is reached within the heating instrument, the food is placed inside and baked for a certain amount of time. It is primarily used for the preparation of bread, cakes, pastries and pies, tarts, quiches, coolies and crackers. Such items are sometimes referred to as "baked goods," and are sold at a bakery. A person who prepares baked goods as a profession is called a baker. It is also used for the preparation of baked potatoes, baked apples, baked beans, some casseroles and pasta dishes such as lasagna, and various other foods, such as the pretzel. Unlike other cooking methods, baking does not alter the nutritional information of the food item. Frying, sauteing, grilling, etc. all change the fat and calorie content of the food.

Many commercial ovens are provided with two heating elements: one for baking, using convection and conduction to heat the food, and one for broiling or grilling, heating mainly by radiation. Meat may also be baked, but this is usually reserved for meatloaf, smaller cuts of whole meats, and whole meats that contain stuffing or coating such as breadcrumbs or buttermilk batter; larger cuts prepared without stuffing or coating are more often roasted, a similar process, using higher temperatures and shorter cooking times. Baking can sometimes be combined with grilling to produce a hybrid barbecue variant, by using both methods simultaneously or one before the other, cooking twice. Baking is connected to barbecuing because the concept of the masonry oven is similar to that of a smoke fit.

The baking process does not require any fat to be used to cook in an oven. Some makers of snacks such as potato chips or crisps have produced baked versions of their snack items as an alternative to the usual cooking method of deep-frying in an attempt to reduce the calorie or fat content of their snack products.Baking has opened up doors to businesses like cake making factories and privatised cake shops but the baking process is done in a more larger mass in bigger and open furnaces.


History of Baking

Baking has been many cultures' favorite technique for creating snacks, desserts, and accompaniments to meals for many years. Now, it is very well-known as the method for creating sweets and all sorts of wondrous mouthwatering pastries. In ancient history, the first evidence of baking occurred when humans took wild grass grains, soaked it in water, and mixed everything together, mashing it into a kind of broth-like paste. Then, the paste was cooked by pouring it onto a flat, hot rock, resulting in a bread-like substance. Later, this paste was roasted on hot embers, which made bread-making easier, as it could now be made anytime fire was created. Around 2500 B.C., records show that the Egyptians already had bread, and may have actually learned the process from the Babylonians. The Greek Aristophanes, around 400 B.C., also recorded information that showed that tortes with patterns and honey flans existed in Greek cuisine. Dispyrus was also created by the Greeks around that time and widely popular; was a donut-like bread made from flour and honey and shaped in a ring; soaked in wine, it was eaten when hot.





In the Roman Empire, baking flourished widely. In about 300 B.C., the pastry cook became an occupation for Romans (known as the pastillarium). This became a very highly respected profession because pastries were considered decadent, and Romans loved festivity and celebration. Thus, pastries were often cooked especially for large banquets, and any pastry cook who could invent new types of tasty treats, unseen at any other banquet, was highly prized. Around 1 A.D., there were more than three hundred pastry chefs in Rome alone, and Cato wrote about how they created all sorts of diverse foods, and flourished because of those foods. Cato speaks of an enormous amount of breads; included among these are the libum (sacrificial cakes made with flour), placenta (groats and cress), spira (our modern day flour pretzels), scibilata (tortes), savaillum (sweet cake), and globus apherica (fritters). A great selection of these, with many different variations, different ingredients, and varied patterns, were often found at banquets and dining halls. To bake bread, the Romans used an oven with its own chimney and had grain mills to grind grain into flour.





Eventually, because of Rome, the art of baking became widely known throughout Europe, and eventually spread to the eastern parts of Asia. Bakers often baked goods at home and then sold them in the streets-children loved their goods. In fact, this scene was so common that Rembrandt illustrated a work that depicted a pastry chef selling pancakes in the streets of Germany, and young children surrounding him, clamoring to get a sample. In London, pastry chef sold their goods in handcarts, which were very convenient shops on wheels. This way, they developed a system of "delivery" baked goods to people's households, and the demand for baked goods increased greatly as a result. Finally, in Paris, the first open-air café of baked goods was developed, and baking became an established art throughout the entire world.