Category "baking"

When dissolving natural organic yeast in water, is it supposed to bubble?

When I made a dough, I dissolved natural organic yeast in water, but it didn’t make bubbles. Is this a sign that something is wrong?

Difference between types of yeast

While double checking a recipe I realized I might have used the wrong type of yeast. There is instant, active, liquid, dry and fresh yeast. What are the culinar

How can I use left over crumble topping?

I like making fruit crumbles, and I like fruit crumbles, but I have a problem... I always make the crumble topping by estimating quantities, adjusting the ingr

How to bake baking soda to produce sodium carbonate?

I'd like to make sodium carbonate for ramen noodles. The instructions on the web however vary greatly. One source says to bake baking soda at 350 degrees for 2-

Will adding whole wheat flour make cookies as chewy as using high gluten flour?

I don't have bread flour or gluten and I want to bake choco chip cookies with a chewy texture and hard crust outside as well as inside. Can I use plain flour a

Using beef fat for baking

I have a large amount of very good quality dry aged beef fat (not suet). I would like to try making cookies using the beef fat in place of the butter. I was thi

How long after the expiry date can I use Chipits Skor toffee bits

The expiry date is 10.2015. Are they ok to use or should I throw them out ?

Ways to Make Matcha Powder Less Bitter in Baking?

I want to use Matcha powder in some baking recipes (cake, macaroons, cheesecake, etc), and while I think it tastes fine many others have told me that it is too

Teaching Bread Making to a young student- need new reasources [closed]

Hi Seasoned Advice Forum Members I am a semi experienced Artisan Bread Baker. I am currently teaching a 9 year old boy the basics of bread mak

Baked Red Potatoes cooked skin up or down (crisped results wanted)

Should red potatoes that are quartered be cooked skin up or down in the oven? (Oiled!) Hoping to get delicious crisped results!

Reheatable pizza dough

Let's say I'm using a 100% white bread flour 70% hydration dough (with or without oil) for pizza to be baked in a home oven; how should I change the formula, or

Why is my cake rising sideways while baking?

Here is what my cake looks like: I'm using the following ingredients to make the cake: 1 egg wheat flour milk some kind of flavour essence like vanilla ess

Bread machines and low altitude my bread won't rise!

I am experienced in baking; I am 65 years old and been baking and cooking for a while, but this problem has got me going crazy. I have recently purchased two

Baking Powder, Baking Soda, and Yeast

I've read one cook say, "I add baking soda when I make bread using buttermilk. The buttermilk is acidic enough that it interferes with the environment that com

How to check on something baking in oven

Whenever I bake something, I am afraid of opening the oven door because I think heat/hot air/steam will escape. For example, today I made baguettes with a wat

Is this a Confectionery Ganache frame?

I have been trying to search for this device for days. I’ve used the terms “dough rolling frame, caramel ruler, confectionery frame, ganache frame

Parchment paper around a cheesecake?

I recently made a pumpkin cheesecake in a springform pan. The instructions say to run a knife around the outside immediately after removing the cake from the ov

Ascorbic Acid (Vit C powder) with Baking Soda = Single Acting Baking Powder?

For my gluten free baking, I "have to"* make my own single acting baking powder. I use 2 parts cream of tartar and 1 part baking soda (bicarbonate of soda). It'

scaling of kneading when scaling bread recipies

I usually make a pizza dough for 3 pizzas, from 500g flour, but once I made a double sized portion, with doubling everything in the recipe and I was not totally

What gives the sponginess of a Chiffon Cake?

I tried baking this receipt and followed the instructions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYQ5uc6plCs The cake turns out ok but it's not a sponge like shown, i