Category "baking"

Can I increase cooking time of bread to make it less gooey?

I've been experimenting with gluten-free baking (due to Celiac, not because I think it will make me skinny). I've made great cakes and cookies, but recently tri

Problems with rising sponge in larger tin

For years I've made classic 6/6/6 and 8/8/8 Victoria sponges (and many variants) in two 7inch tins, with good results. Now I've tried to bake the same recipe i

Chocolate graham crust

Is there any way of making a regular graham cracker crust into a Chocolate graham cracker crust?

Bread cracks in the oven

I'm having trouble with my hamburger buns cracking in the oven. click to expand In this photo you can see a a bun with the crust cap cracking, isolating the b

Why do you warm a Dutch oven up before baking bread?

I want to attempt to make bread in my Dutch oven. Most of the recipes that I have found say to warm your Dutch oven up before putting the dough in. I have found

How could I use liquid flavorings to make a version of a jelly-topped cookie?

I recently tried to make jelly-topped cookies (specific recipe was from home, but here's an example recipe) using an assortment of flavors, including maple syru

Baking Italian love cake

Can I make 2 round love cakes in pans lined with parchment, then remove them from pans, stack and frost? Does this change cooking time?

Simple stone ground flour bread

I'm aiming to make a simple bread from as few ingredients as possible; ideally only stone ground whole wheat flour, water, and yeast. I'm having a hard time fin

Baked food and Bacilus Cereus

Is there a difference between baked and cooked food? As I know cooked food has to be in fridge within 2 hours after the preparation to avoid creating appropria

Can I subsitute grapefruit for either lemon or orange in baking

I want to bake a cake but i don`t have either an orange or a lemon. I have grapefruit. Can I use it?

How to calculate the pH of a lye solution?

I'm trying to figure out if I can substitute the catholyte from a salt water electrolysis system for a lye solution in pretzel making. In order to figure this o

If your bread doesn't sound hollow can it still be done?

This may be an old question, Can bread be done even if it does not sound hollow? The temperature is 197F but the bottom does not sound hollow. The bread is gold

How can I keep the crust of my breads from getting too dark?

Some of the breads that I bake the crust gets too dark. Is there something I can put over it to prevent this from happening? I was thinking that foil might wor

Temperature and Duration for Baking Sweet Potatoes

I am currently reading in literature about vegetables and came across a section describing how to best prepare sweet potatoes: Most sweet potato varieties s

Can multiple slabs of ribs be baked at once?

I need to bake 10 slabs of barbecue ribs that will be finished off on the grill. The recipe calls for baking each at 250 degrees for 2 hours. Can I bake 2 or m

Yeast Nutritional Values

Like most food products yeasts are labeled with nutritional values for calories, carbs, etc. When yeast is 'activated' it is said to be 'reproducing' (or making

Do I have to change the baking time when I convert fahrenheit to Celsius?

So in this recipe i should bake my cookies to 350 degrees F for 8 to 10 minutes.350 degrees fahrenheit is about 176 Celsius degrees and i dont know if I should

Oven baked cod fillets get soaked in their own liquid

I baked cod fillets twice. The first batch was fine, the second had the fish soaked in its own liquid. (Two different batches from the same shop, salted 1.5 hou

How to bake frozen breaded cod without breading sticking to alumnium foil?

Context: I'm a poor and lazy college student. I have breaded frozen pieces of cod from costco. I like to bake them in my toaster-oven on aluminum foil to avoid

How to store crumble cake

I've just made a rather delicious raspberry "crumble cake". It consists of a thin layer of cake with whole raspberries, topped with crumble and baked. I get the