Flours
A blend of hard and soft wheat, and it's used for many products, including yeast breads, quick breads, cakes, cookies, and pastries.
What is All-Purpose Flour?
Most common form of the sugar in the bakeshop, and it has fine, uniform crystals.
What is Granulated Sugar?
Adds flavor, color, moisture, richness, a flaky texture, and it assists with leavening.
What are shortenings?
It is also known as sodium bicarbonate, and it's an alkaline powder.
What is baking soda?
It makes up the portion of most liquids.
What is water?
Graham flour grinding the whole kernel.
What is Whole-Wheat Flour?
Granulated sugar that is ground to a fine powder, also called confectioner's sugar.
What is Powdered Sugar?
It's used in the bakeshop and they're often referred to as, "shortenings," because it shortens strands of gluten in the dough.
What are fats?
Baking soda that is premixed with an acid chemical.
What is baking powder?
It's composed of water, sugar (lactose), and fats.
What is milk?
Fine-textured, silky flour milled from soft wheat.
What is Cake Flour?
An extremely fine, granulated sugar with no additives, also called castor sugar.
What is Superfine Sugar?
This source of shortenings include butter, lard, and blends that use rendered beef fat.
What are animal shortenings?
A living microscopic plant that produces carbon dioxide and alcohol.
What is yeast?
It contributes fat and aid in browning.
What are egg yolks?
Product made by adding salt and chemical leavening to all-purpose flour.
What is Self-Rising Flour?
Granulated sugar with added molasses.
What is Brown Sugar?
This source of shortenings are made from vegetable oils, which are normally liquid at room temperature.
What are vegetable shortenings?
A fresh product with a limited shelf life.
What is compressed yeast?
What are egg whites?
Mixtures of various grains used to produce specialty breads.
What is Multigrain Flour?
It has larger crystals than granulated sugar, and it's used for dusting, topping and decorating cookies and pastries; is often colored to create visual appeal.
What is Sanding Sugar?
A hydrogenated vegetable shortening that is flavored to serve as a substitute for butter.
What is Margarine?
What is dry yeast?
It enhances the flavor of baked goods.
What is salt?