Baking Terms

• Alternately add - To add a little of the dry ingredients into the batter first then a little of the liquid ingredients before beating until smooth. Start and end with the dry ingredients.
• Baine Marie - Baking using a hot water bath. A pan filled with batter is placed on a tray half-filled with water, then bake
• Bake Blind - To bake a crust without a filling. The crust is weighed down with dry beans to prevent ballooning and keep it shape.
• Batter - A mixture of dry and liquid ingredients with a pouring consistency
• Caramelized - To melt sugar with or without water until it becomes golden brown in color and develops a distinguishing flavor.
• Cream - To mix fat and sugar until smooth at the same time incorporating air into mixture
• Cut in - To distribute fat in flour particles until pea-sized crumbs are obtained. They may be done using a pastry blender, the tines of a fork or two knives.
• Drizzle - To sprinkle a surface with a liquid ingredient
• Dust - To sprinkle a surface with flour or sugar
• Egg wash - A combination of 1 egg and 2 tablespoons of milk used for brushing pastry and bread dough to have shiny, golden baked surface.
• Foaming - To aerate the egg rapidly to incorporate air cells

  and to form texture.

  • Mixing time: 4-5minutes
• Fold in - To mix delicately textured ingredients. Using a spatula cut down through the mixture; go across the bottom of the bowl and up over close to the surface while turning the bowl frequently
• Glaze - A glossy coating
• Grease - To brush a surface with butter, margarine, shortening or oil to prevent sticking
• Knead - To work the dough by hand with pressing and stretching to develop the gluten formation and to make it pliable and elastic.

  • Mixing time: 10minutes
• Pipe Out - To squeeze out mixture from a pastry bag
• Punch down - to deflate risen dough using the fist to break down large air spaces
• Roll - shape a rectangle of dough or cake into a cylinder
• Roll-out - flatten dough to a desired thickness
• Score - to cut or slash with a sharp knife the top of the bread. Used to Create designs on bread.
• Whip - beat rapidly and aerate due if the gluten is already developed.
• Mise en Place - french word for Putting in Place or Gathering ingredients and supplies prepared.
• Clay Go - known as Clean as you go. Simplest and most reliable.