Bread Baking
Bread can be made with just three ingredients: water, yeast, and this ingredient which acts as a food source for the yeast.
What is flour?
Unless your baking recipe specifies otherwise, this is the default temperature for ingredients in baked goods.
What is room temperature?
All custards are made with eggs, dairy, and this sweet ingredient.
What is sugar?
This mixer attachment is used when a recipe tells you to "cream butter and sugar".
What is the paddle?
This foodborne illness can contaminate water supplies, making flour dangerous to eat.
What is E. coli?
Instead of kneading by hand, bread dough can be kneaded in a mixer using this attachment.
What is the dough hook?
Both yeast and baking soda release this chemical compound when activated (but baking soda releases it much more quickly).
What is CO2?
Unlike pies, which have angled or sloped sides, tarts are characterized by this type of side.
What is straight sides?
The name of the French cookie seen here.
What are Madeleine?
To get their characteristic taste, pretzels must first be dipped in this chemical, known to scientists as sodium hydroxide.
What is lye?
Enriched dough, such as the dough used for cinnamon rolls, tend to contain both sugar and this ingredient, making the dough both sweeter and softer as well as increasing fermentation time.
What is fat (or what is butter)?
The number of teaspoons in a tablespoon.
What is three?
The French term for the dough used to make eclairs can be literally translated as "cabbage paste".
What is pâte à choux?
Compared to a fudgy brownie, a cakey brownie has less fat and more of this ingredient.
What is flour?
The dough used for cream puffs, puff pastry, and churros does not contain a leavening agent. Instead, cream puffs, puff pastry, and churros rise through water released in this form.
What is steam?
Unlike quick breads, yeast breads must be both mixed and kneaded in order to develop this protein that gives bread its structure.
What is gluten?
This method of incorporating ingredients is more gentle than stirring, ensuring that as much air as possible is preserved.
What is folding?
Although it has the word "cake" in it, cheesecake is not technically a cake, but rather this combination of eggs, dairy, and sugar.
What is a custard?
This is the main purpose of creaming butter and sugar when making cookies, which insulates the cookies and prevents the butter from melting too quickly.
What is aerating?
Water boils at this temperature fahrenheit.
What is 212° degrees?
This process, in which yeast consumes the carbohydrates in the dough and releases CO2 and ethanol, traps air in bread dough and causes bread to rise.
What is fermentation?
The technique seen here, used to gradually increase the eggs' temperature and dilute the proteins, ensures the eggs don't coagulate.
What is tempering?
The French term used for the baking method seen here:
What is a bain marie?
In addition to chemical leavening, most cookies rely on this type of leavening, achieved through the power of a mixer (or, back in the day, an arm).
What is mechanical leavening?
Egg proteins coagulate (or curdle) at this temperature fahrenheit.
What is 165° degrees?