Baking Terms: Reading Recipes For Baked Goods (Huffington post)

As if baking wasn’t tricky enough on its own — you already have to worry
about the cake rising, the cookies spreading or the bread coming out rock hard
– but baking vocabulary can trip you up too; sometimes it feels like it’s
written in another language. How are you supposed to feel confident about the
pie you just put in the oven if you’re not even 100 percent sure that you
understood what was meant by “blind baking” your crust?

If you find that you fumble a bit while baking from a recipe, you’ll want to
read on. After this quick overview, you’ll be working in the kitchen with ease
and confidence. We’ve put together a list of the most common — and confusing
– baking terms and describe them plain as day.

**Blind Bake:** When working with pies, tarts or quiches, some recipes will
ask you to blind bake the dough. All it means is to bake the pie dough before
the filling has been added. The reason for this is that sometimes the filling
doesn’t need to be baked, and other times it simply doesn’t have to be baked
as long …

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