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1. 1. Cream fat - sugar - salt - milk powder 2. Gradually (little by little) add eggs 3. Add water or milk (liquid) 4. Sift together flour & baking powder in separate bowl. 5. Add to liquids & mix to a smooth dough.
Procedure - Creaming Method (Biscuits)
Biscuit Method. What if you skip the kneading step?
Quick bread soft doughs are used to make
Do quick breads need fermentation time?

2. Mixes ingredients together more evenly/uniformly
When making up corn bread - sheet pans should be _______________________
Why does the creaming method mix together the fat & sugar first?
Is muffin method long & hard or fast & easy?
What happens if you overmix batter?

3. Popovers are leavened with steam.
If you made a batch of muffins that came out of the oven with strange - knobby shapes - what would you expect to be the reason?
How long should you knead biscuit dough?
How can you cut biscuits to eliminate scraps?
How are popovers leavened?

4. If the batter was a bread batter - you can make muffins out of it. If it was a muffin batter - you can make bread out of it.
Muffin batters are easily used to make
Batters for muffins and quick loaf breads can be interchanged. What does this mean?
What is the most important difference between the biscuit method and the muffin bethod?
When preparing biscuits - the fat should be cut into dry ingredients until mixture looks like ________________.

5. Biscuits
Popovers
Example of soft dough?
Procedure - Creaming Method (Muffins - Loaves - Coffee cakes)
Examples of batters?

6. Do Not STIR OR MIX the batter. It will toughen it!
When pouring muffin batter into tins - do not _____________.
When preparing biscuits - the fat should be cut into dry ingredients until mixture looks like ________________.
What is danger of muffin batter?
Is muffin method long & hard or fast & easy?

7. No. Only mix until ingredients are moistened. Batter may be lumpy.
Why must popover batter be mixed well?
Biscuit Method. What if you skip the kneading step?
Which mixing method requires some kneading before ready for makeup?
Should muffin batter be smooth?

8. Popovers have no chemical leaveners or yeast. Uses steam - bread flour & eggs to help rise. You must mix more to develop gluten to hlod up the structure and create the holes in baked good.
Why do popovers require more mixing than other quick breads?
Tunneling
When preparing biscuits - the fat should be cut into dry ingredients until mixture looks like ________________.
What is the exception among quick breads?

9. Gingerbread!
When preparing biscuits - the fat should be cut into dry ingredients until mixture looks like ________________.
This type of bread is a wide variety of cakes - shortbreads or cookies. dates back to Middle Ages. Spices used.
How can you cut biscuits to eliminate scraps?
Procedure - Creaming Method (Muffins - Loaves - Coffee cakes)

10. Biscuits - scones - similar products. Sometimes called pastry method (it's like method used for mixing pie pastry)
Quick bread soft doughs are used to make
Biscuit Method
Procedure - Creaming Method (Muffins - Loaves - Coffee cakes)
Explain how gingerbread came to sweetened.

11. Greased or lined with silicone paper
Explain how gingerbread came to sweetened.
Quick bread soft doughs are used to make
When making up corn bread - sheet pans should be _______________________
When making up muffins you should make sure tins and loaf pans are _______________

12. Cut STRAIGHT DOWN and Do Not DRAG KNIFE!
This mixing method results in a lumpy batter
Makeup of Biscuits
When cutting biscuits with a knife - you should cut _____________ down and ___________ drag knife.
What keeps gluten development low in mixing batter for quick breads?

13. 1. Roll out dough into uniform sheets 1/2 in (1 cm) thick 2. Cut into desired shape 3. Place 1/2 in apart on greased/paper lined baking sheet 4. Apply egg wash or milk to brown 5. Bake ASAP
Popovers
Procedure - Creaming Method (Biscuits)
Why might a baker choose to prepare a quick bread using the creaming method rather than the biscuit or muffin method?
Makeup of Biscuits

14. Fast & easy
Procedure - Creaming Method (Muffins - Loaves - Coffee cakes)
Is muffin method long & hard or fast & easy?
Brushing the tops of biscuits with an egg wash before baking helps them
Biscuit Method. If you use slightly more shortening and cut it in less (pieces are size of peas) - what will it produce?

15. A baked product made of thin batter - leavened only by steam & characterized by large holes/cavities on the inside
Popovers
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads
When pouring muffin batter into tins - do not _____________.
Why must popover batter be mixed well?

16. Creaming method
Examples of batters?
Quick breads high in sugar ad fats are sometimes called
Pour Batters
Which mixing method is used for formulas high in fat?

17. Method that begins with the blending of fat & sugar (cakes - cookies - etc.)
Creaming Method
Muffin batters are easily used to make
When cutting biscuits - why should you space the cuts as closely together as possible?
When pouring muffin batter into tins - do not _____________.

18. Toughens them.
Biscuit Method. What does overkneading do to biscuits?
Popovers derive their structure from bread flour and
Is yeast used for quick breads?
If a biscuit uses creaming method - What is the result?

19. Tea cakes
When cutting biscuits with a knife - you should cut _____________ down and ___________ drag knife.
Quick breads high in sugar ad fats are sometimes called
Muffin Method. What happens if you do not bake immediately after mixing?
Makeup of Biscuits

20. So you don't waste dough. Minimize leftover scraps.
Is muffin method long & hard or fast & easy?
Muffin method is not suitable for formulas high in ___________.
When cutting biscuits - why should you space the cuts as closely together as possible?
When preparing biscuits - the fat should be cut into dry ingredients until mixture looks like ________________.

21. Corn meal
Creaming Method
This mixing method is best for quick bread formulas high in fat and sugar
What type of gluten development do you want in quick breads?
When preparing biscuits - the fat should be cut into dry ingredients until mixture looks like ________________.

22. Toughness & Tunnelling
Muffin Method
Procedure - Creaming Method (Biscuits)
Do muffins rise better with paper liners or just a greased tin pan?
What happens if muffin batter is overmixed?

23. Biscuit method
Which mixing method requires some kneading before ready for makeup?
Explain how gingerbread came to sweetened.
When making up muffins you should make sure tins and loaf pans are _______________
The quick bread that uses no chemical leaveners of yeast is called a...

24. No. Yeast is not used
If a biscuit uses creaming method - What is the result?
When making up corn bread - sheet pans should be _______________________
Do quick breads need fermentation time?
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads

25. More cakelike & less flaky
If a biscuit uses creaming method - What is the result?
Why does the creaming method mix together the fat & sugar first?
Tunneling
Pour Batters

26. Greased & floured
When making up muffins you should make sure tins and loaf pans are _______________
This mixing method is best for quick bread formulas high in fat and sugar
When making up corn bread - sheet pans should be _______________________
3 mixing methods for most quick breads

27. A LITTLE! Keep gluten development low. Mix only until the dry ingredients are moist.
Should you mix batters a little or a lot?
What is the benefit of using the creaming method?
Procedure - Biscuit Method
Creaming Method

28. Fat
How can you cut biscuits to eliminate scraps?
Muffin method is not suitable for formulas high in ___________.
Should muffin batter be smooth?
Drop Batters

29. Mix very little - plus fat & sugar
Quick bread soft doughs are used to make
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads
What keeps gluten development low in mixing batter for quick breads?
When spooning muffin mix into tins - it's best to

30. Eggs
Popovers derive their structure from bread flour and
What develops inside popovers while baking?
Procedure - Muffin Method
3 mixing methods for most quick breads

31. A batter too thick to be poured but will drop in lumps from spoon
Muffin Method. What happens if you do not bake immediately after mixing?
Batters for muffins and quick loaf breads can be interchanged. What does this mean?
Drop Batters
Why does the creaming method mix together the fat & sugar first?

32. Bread flour. Popover structure must be strong enough to hold up the large holes. Batter mixed well to develop gluten. HIGH % OF EGGS used to give structure.
Examples of batters?
If you use the leftover scraps after cutting out biscuits - how will the biscuits made from the scraps taste?
What type of flour is used for making popovers? Why?
What is the best way to pour muffin batter into tins?

33. 1. Soft doughs (biscuits - rolled out & cut into shapes) 2. Batters (pour batters & drop batters)
When cutting biscuits with a knife - you should cut _____________ down and ___________ drag knife.
Do muffins rise better with paper liners or just a greased tin pan?
What is the best way to pour muffin batter into tins?
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads

34. A batter that is liquid enough to be poured
Overmixing muffin dough can result in
Pour Batters
What keeps gluten development low in mixing batter for quick breads?
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads

35. Muffins - loaf breads - pancakes
When cutting biscuits with a knife - you should cut _____________ down and ___________ drag knife.
What is the exception among quick breads?
Muffin method is not suitable for formulas high in ___________.
Examples of batters?

36. Brown evenly
Examples of batters?
Muffin Method
Brushing the tops of biscuits with an egg wash before baking helps them
This mixing method is best for quick bread formulas high in fat and sugar

37. Very large holes
If a biscuit uses creaming method - What is the result?
What type of dough/batter are popovers made from?
The quick bread that uses no chemical leaveners of yeast is called a...
What develops inside popovers while baking?

38. More time consuming
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads
Muffin Method. What happens if you do not bake immediately after mixing?
Why does the creaming method mix together the fat & sugar first?
Is the creaming moeth more or less time consuming than the muffin method?

39. POPOVERS
What is the exception among quick breads?
3 mixing methods for most quick breads
Biscuit Method
Should you mix batters a little or a lot?

40. Biscuits & scones
Quick bread soft doughs are used to make
This type of bread is a wide variety of cakes - shortbreads or cookies. dates back to Middle Ages. Spices used.
Popovers
This mixing method is best for quick bread formulas high in fat and sugar

41. DOWN. Cut straight down. Do Not TWIST CUTTER!
If a biscuit uses creaming method - What is the result?
Creaming Method
When cutting biscuits with round hand cutters - you should cut straight __________.
Example of soft dough?

42. Flakier biscuit
When making up muffins you should make sure tins and loaf pans are _______________
Biscuit Method. If you use slightly more shortening and cut it in less (pieces are size of peas) - what will it produce?
Muffin batters are easily used to make
How long should you knead biscuit dough?

43. First with honey. Then with sugarcane. Last with molasses.
Batters for muffins and quick loaf breads can be interchanged. What does this mean?
Procedure - Muffin Method
Explain how gingerbread came to sweetened.
Do quick breads need fermentation time?

44. Knead the biscuit method. Muffin method only mix until batter is just moist (it will be lumpy)
Muffin method is not suitable for formulas high in ___________.
What is the most important difference between the biscuit method and the muffin bethod?
Do muffins rise better with paper liners or just a greased tin pan?
Is muffin method long & hard or fast & easy?

45. Rich
Procedure - Creaming Method (Biscuits)
Quick breads made using muffin method are not as ___________ and cakelike as muffins using the creaming method.
Why might a baker choose to prepare a quick bread using the creaming method rather than the biscuit or muffin method?
What type of flour is used for making popovers? Why?

46. Formulas use less fat & sugar than rich - oily muffins sold in stores today.
This type of bread is a wide variety of cakes - shortbreads or cookies. dates back to Middle Ages. Spices used.
Do quick breads need fermentation time?
Formulas for muffins and quick loaf breads in this Chapter should be thought of breads and not tea cakes. Why?
Which mixing method is used for formulas high in fat?

47. Overmixing caused irregular shapes - toughness & tunnelling
If you made a batch of muffins that came out of the oven with strange - knobby shapes - what would you expect to be the reason?
When spooning muffin mix into tins - it's best to
What is the exception among quick breads?
Tunneling

48. 1. biscuit method 2. muffin method 3. creaming method
What is the exception among quick breads?
3 mixing methods for most quick breads
What type of gluten development do you want in quick breads?
Creaming Method

49. Use creaming method if formula is high in fat. Produces fine texture & has less danger of overmixing. Cakelike result.
Biscuit Method. What if you skip the kneading step?
Why might a baker choose to prepare a quick bread using the creaming method rather than the biscuit or muffin method?
When making up muffins you should make sure tins and loaf pans are _______________
Example of soft dough?

50. 1. scale ingredients 2. sift dry ingredients together 3. cut in fat (until it looks like cornmeal) 4. combine liquid ingredients in separate bowl 5. add to dry ingredients & mix just until soft dough forms (DON'T Overmix!) 6. Bring dough to bench & k
What is the exception among quick breads?
Quick breads made using muffin method are not as ___________ and cakelike as muffins using the creaming method.
This mixing method results in a lumpy batter
Procedure - Biscuit Method