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baking: see cooking Frying is cooking in hot oil; sautéing is cooking in a small amount of oil; stir-frying is a Chinese technique of frying quickly in small amounts of oil in a wok; deep frying is completely submerging the food in large amounts of fat. ..... Click the link for more information. . bakingProcess of cooking by dry heat, especially in an oven. Baked products include bread, cookies, pies, and pastries. Ingredients used in baking include flour, water, leavening agents (baker's yeast, baking soda, baking powder), shortening (fats, oils), eggs, milk, and sugars. These are mixed together to create dough or batter, which is then transferred to a pan or sheet and heated. Leavening agents produce gas that becomes trapped in the dough, causing it to rise. Shortening makes doughs more easily workable and the final product more tender. Egg whites are used to produce a light, airy texture, and yolks contribute colour, flavour, and texture. Milk is used for moistening and flavouring and sugars for sweetening and aiding fermentation. baking [′bāk·iŋ] (engineering) The use of heat on fresh paint films to speed the evaporation of thinners and to promote the reaction of binder components so as to form a hard polymeric film. Also known as stoving. (food engineering) The use of heat in an oven to convert flour, water, yeast, and such, into baked goods. (metallurgy) Heating metal at low temperatures to remove gases. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| At this time of year, the days are still short, the sun is not so strong, days may get warm, but not baking hot, and nights are still cool to cold. Of course there are things and places on the other side of space, but they turned out to be just exactly the kind of things and places one would try hard to avoid if they were down here on Earth - baking hot or freezing cold or poisonous or totally barren - just plain miserable. Extremes of temperature exacerbate the problem (it is baking hot in summer and can freeze in winter). |
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