Tools and equipment
What tool is commonly used to measure small amounts of ingredients such as baking powder and salt?
Measuring spoons
This basic white granular ingredient gives sweetness and structure to baked goods.
Sugar or white sugar
When were flour and water first mixed on a heated stone
8000 years ago
The action of working dough with your hands by pushing, folding, and rolling to develop gluten.
Kneading
What piece of equipment is used to evenly distribute dry ingredients and remove lumps?
Sifter
What ingredient provides the main structure in most baked goods?
Flour
What microorganism has been used for centuries to make bread rise?
Yeast
The process of beating fat (like butter) and sugar together until light and fluffy to incorporate air into a cake batter.
Creaming
What tool is specifically designed to measure the internal temperature of baked goods, such as bread, to determine doneness?
Food thermometer
This dark, thick syrup made during the sugar-refining process gives gingerbread and brown sugar their distinct flavor.
Molasses
Which ancient civilization is strongly associated with the early development of leavened bread?
Ancient Egyptians
a combination of two motions cutting vertically through the mixture and turning over and over by gliding the spoon or rubber scrapper across the bottom of the mixing bowl at each turn.
Cut and fold
A small metal tool with parallel wires used to cut cold butter into flour when making pie crusts or biscuits.
Pastry cutter
What is the name of the protein network formed when glutenin and gliadin in wheat flour combine with water and are developed through mixing?
Gluten
When was the first flour mill in the Philippines invented?
1958
In bread making, this two-step method involves fermenting a wet mixture of yeast, flour, and liquid into a bubbly starter before mixing in the remaining ingredients.
Sponge method