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1. Creaming method
Muffin method is not suitable for formulas high in ___________.
This mixing method is best for quick bread formulas high in fat and sugar
Batters for muffins and quick loaf breads can be interchanged. What does this mean?
Drop Batters

2. 1. biscuit method 2. muffin method 3. creaming method
3 mixing methods for most quick breads
Why might a baker choose to prepare a quick bread using the creaming method rather than the biscuit or muffin method?
Procedure - Creaming Method (Muffins - Loaves - Coffee cakes)
Should muffin batter be smooth?

3. Formulas use less fat & sugar than rich - oily muffins sold in stores today.
What is the best way to pour muffin batter into tins?
What keeps gluten development low in mixing batter for quick breads?
This type of bread is a wide variety of cakes - shortbreads or cookies. dates back to Middle Ages. Spices used.
Formulas for muffins and quick loaf breads in this Chapter should be thought of breads and not tea cakes. Why?

4. Toughness & tunnelling
Overmixing muffin dough can result in
Explain how gingerbread came to sweetened.
Pour Batters
When cutting biscuits with a knife - you should cut _____________ down and ___________ drag knife.

5. Creaming method
Biscuit Method. What if you skip the kneading step?
Which mixing method is used for formulas high in fat?
Is the creaming moeth more or less time consuming than the muffin method?
Tunneling

6. Biscuits & scones
Popovers
Quick bread soft doughs are used to make
Why does the creaming method mix together the fat & sugar first?
Procedure - Creaming Method (Biscuits)

7. Muffins - pancakes - waffles - loaf-type or sheet-type quick breads.
Muffin Method
Procedure - Creaming Method (Muffins - Loaves - Coffee cakes)
Popovers derive their structure from bread flour and
Biscuit Method

8. Mixes ingredients together more evenly/uniformly
Why does the creaming method mix together the fat & sugar first?
Procedure - Biscuit Method
What type of gluten development do you want in quick breads?
When making up corn bread - sheet pans should be _______________________

9. Loaf breads
Batters for muffins and quick loaf breads can be interchanged. What does this mean?
Biscuit Method. If you use slightly more shortening and cut it in less (pieces are size of peas) - what will it produce?
Explain how gingerbread came to sweetened.
Muffin batters are easily used to make

10. 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
Makeup of Biscuits
What is the most important difference between the biscuit method and the muffin bethod?
Is yeast used for quick breads?
Pour Batters

11. Overmixing can cause toughness. Mix only until dry ingredients become moist!
This mixing method is best for quick bread formulas high in fat and sugar
What is danger of muffin batter?
Popovers
Example of soft dough?

12. Biscuit method
How can you cut biscuits to eliminate scraps?
How long should you knead biscuit dough?
This mixing method is best for quick bread formulas high in fat and sugar
Which mixing method requires some kneading before ready for makeup?

13. 1. Soft doughs (biscuits - rolled out & cut into shapes) 2. Batters (pour batters & drop batters)
Is muffin method long & hard or fast & easy?
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads
Brushing the tops of biscuits with an egg wash before baking helps them
What is the most important difference between the biscuit method and the muffin bethod?

14. Biscuits
Example of soft dough?
Should you mix batters a little or a lot?
Pour Batters
Why does the creaming method mix together the fat & sugar first?

15. So you don't waste dough. Minimize leftover scraps.
Is the creaming moeth more or less time consuming than the muffin method?
3 mixing methods for most quick breads
When cutting biscuits - why should you space the cuts as closely together as possible?
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads

16. The development of elongated holes inside muffin products
When cutting biscuits - why should you space the cuts as closely together as possible?
Pour Batters
When cutting biscuits with round hand cutters - you should cut straight __________.
Tunneling

17. Brown evenly
How are popovers leavened?
Brushing the tops of biscuits with an egg wash before baking helps them
Formulas for muffins and quick loaf breads in this Chapter should be thought of breads and not tea cakes. Why?
Biscuit Method. What does overkneading do to biscuits?

18. Scoop batter from OUTSIDE EDGE of bowl. Do not stir!
What is the best way to pour muffin batter into tins?
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads
Biscuit Method
If loaf breads and coffee cakes have high fat & sugar - can they be mixed more or less?

19. Tougher
If you use the leftover scraps after cutting out biscuits - how will the biscuits made from the scraps taste?
What is danger of muffin batter?
Popovers derive their structure from bread flour and
Procedure - Creaming Method (Biscuits)

20. 1. Cream fat - sugar - salt - spices - milk powder until light 2. Mix in eggs in 2 or 3 stages 3. Sift dry ingredients (flour - baking powder) together in separate bowl 4. Stir liquid ingredients together in separate bowl 5. Add dry ingredients alter
When making up corn bread - sheet pans should be _______________________
Procedure - Creaming Method (Muffins - Loaves - Coffee cakes)
This mixing method results in a lumpy batter
What is the benefit of using the creaming method?

21. Fat
Muffin method is not suitable for formulas high in ___________.
What type of flour is used for making popovers? Why?
Batters for muffins and quick loaf breads can be interchanged. What does this mean?
Which mixing method is used for formulas high in fat?

22. Very large holes
What type of flour is used for making popovers? Why?
Muffin Method
What develops inside popovers while baking?
Muffin Method. What happens if you do not bake immediately after mixing?

23. A baked product made of thin batter - leavened only by steam & characterized by large holes/cavities on the inside
The quick bread that uses no chemical leaveners of yeast is called a...
Explain how gingerbread came to sweetened.
Popovers
Biscuit Method

24. Only slight - you don't want quick bread too chewy - you want TENDERNESS
Do muffins rise better with paper liners or just a greased tin pan?
Procedure - Creaming Method (Biscuits)
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads
What type of gluten development do you want in quick breads?

25. Method that begins with the blending of fat & sugar (cakes - cookies - etc.)
Drop Batters
Should muffin batter be smooth?
What type of dough/batter are popovers made from?
Creaming Method

26. Thin batter
Procedure - Biscuit Method
What develops inside popovers while baking?
What type of dough/batter are popovers made from?
When spooning muffin mix into tins - it's best to

27. Flakier biscuit
Should muffin batter be smooth?
Do muffins rise better with paper liners or just a greased tin pan?
Biscuit Method. If you use slightly more shortening and cut it in less (pieces are size of peas) - what will it produce?
This mixing method results in a lumpy batter

28. More time consuming
Overmixing muffin dough can result in
Is the creaming moeth more or less time consuming than the muffin method?
What is the most important difference between the biscuit method and the muffin bethod?
Tunneling

29. You get very tender biscuits with less volume (not as high)
This mixing method results in a lumpy batter
What is the exception among quick breads?
What keeps gluten development low in mixing batter for quick breads?
Biscuit Method. What if you skip the kneading step?

30. A batter that is liquid enough to be poured
Example of soft dough?
Tunneling
When making up muffins you should make sure tins and loaf pans are _______________
Pour Batters

31. Toughness & Tunnelling (the development of elongated holes inside muffin products)
Quick breads high in sugar ad fats are sometimes called
Do muffins rise better with paper liners or just a greased tin pan?
What happens if you overmix batter?
Why do popovers require more mixing than other quick breads?

32. Muffins - loaf breads - pancakes
Examples of batters?
Muffin batters are easily used to make
Batters for muffins and quick loaf breads can be interchanged. What does this mean?
Procedure - Muffin Method

33. Overmixing caused irregular shapes - toughness & tunnelling
If a biscuit uses creaming method - What is the result?
What is the benefit of using the creaming method?
Do muffins rise better with paper liners or just a greased tin pan?
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?

34. Corn meal
When cutting biscuits with round hand cutters - you should cut straight __________.
When making up corn bread - sheet pans should be _______________________
When preparing biscuits - the fat should be cut into dry ingredients until mixture looks like ________________.
How can you cut biscuits to eliminate scraps?

35. They can be mixed more without becoming tough.
What type of flour is used for making popovers? Why?
If loaf breads and coffee cakes have high fat & sugar - can they be mixed more or less?
What is the most important difference between the biscuit method and the muffin bethod?
Muffin method is not suitable for formulas high in ___________.

36. 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 danger of muffin batter?
Procedure - Biscuit Method
Quick breads made using muffin method are not as ___________ and cakelike as muffins using the creaming method.
What type of dough/batter are popovers made from?

37. Cut into squares of triangles with pastry cutter knife or roller cutters.
What is the best way to pour muffin batter into tins?
How can you cut biscuits to eliminate scraps?
Do quick breads need fermentation time?
Should you mix batters a little or a lot?

38. First with honey. Then with sugarcane. Last with molasses.
Explain how gingerbread came to sweetened.
2 Types of Dough Mixtures for Quick Breads
What type of flour is used for making popovers? Why?
When making up muffins you should make sure tins and loaf pans are _______________

39. 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.
Do muffins rise better with paper liners or just a greased tin pan?
Do quick breads need fermentation time?
Should muffin batter be smooth?
Batters for muffins and quick loaf breads can be interchanged. What does this mean?

40. A batter too thick to be poured but will drop in lumps from spoon
Drop Batters
When pouring muffin batter into tins - do not _____________.
Why might a baker choose to prepare a quick bread using the creaming method rather than the biscuit or muffin method?
3 mixing methods for most quick breads

41. 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?
This type of bread is a wide variety of cakes - shortbreads or cookies. dates back to Middle Ages. Spices used.
Pour Batters
Do quick breads need fermentation time?

42. Knead the biscuit method. Muffin method only mix until batter is just moist (it will be lumpy)
When making up muffins you should make sure tins and loaf pans are _______________
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?
Procedure - Muffin Method
What is the most important difference between the biscuit method and the muffin bethod?

43. POPOVERS
What is the exception among quick breads?
Muffin Method. What happens if you do not bake immediately after mixing?
What type of dough/batter are popovers made from?
When preparing biscuits - the fat should be cut into dry ingredients until mixture looks like ________________.

44. 1. Sift together dry ingredients 2. combine all liquids - including melted fat 3. Add liquids to dry. Mix only until batter is moist. Will look lumpy. Do Not Overmix! 4. Pan and bake immediately!
Procedure - Muffin Method
The quick bread that uses no chemical leaveners of yeast is called a...
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?
Drop Batters

45. Toughness & Tunnelling
What happens if muffin batter is overmixed?
Is the creaming moeth more or less time consuming than the muffin method?
Is muffin method long & hard or fast & easy?
Do quick breads need fermentation time?

46. No. Yeast is not used
Biscuit Method. What if you skip the kneading step?
When spooning muffin mix into tins - it's best to
Do quick breads need fermentation time?
Should you mix batters a little or a lot?

47. Muffin method
When making up muffins you should make sure tins and loaf pans are _______________
This mixing method results in a lumpy batter
Why might a baker choose to prepare a quick bread using the creaming method rather than the biscuit or muffin method?
How are popovers leavened?

48. Tea cakes
Which mixing method requires some kneading before ready for makeup?
Quick bread soft doughs are used to make
Quick breads high in sugar ad fats are sometimes called
What keeps gluten development low in mixing batter for quick breads?

49. Gingerbread!
The quick bread that uses no chemical leaveners of yeast is called a...
Batters for muffins and quick loaf breads can be interchanged. What does this mean?
This type of bread is a wide variety of cakes - shortbreads or cookies. dates back to Middle Ages. Spices used.
What type of flour is used for making popovers? Why?

50. 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)
Should you mix batters a little or a lot?
Is the creaming moeth more or less time consuming than the muffin method?
When making up muffins you should make sure tins and loaf pans are _______________