Bread - Formulation. The amount of water and flour are the most significant measurements in a bread recipe, as they affect texture and crumb the most. Professional bakers use a system of percentages known as Bakers' Percentage in their recipe formulations, and measure ingredients by weight instead of by volume. Measurement by weight is much more accurate and consistent that measure ...

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There are many variations on the basic recipe of bread, including pizza, chapatis, tortillas, baguettes, pitas, lavash, biscuits, pretzels, naan, bagels, puris, and many other variations. In Britain and the United States, the most widely consumed type of bread is soft-textured with a thin crust and is sold ready-sliced in packages. It is usually eaten with the crust, but some eaters or preparers may remove the crust due to a personal preference or style of serving, as for high tea. In Scotland, another form of bread cal ...

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Techniques - Utensils Weights and measures Spices and Herbs Sauces - Soups - Desserts Cheese - Pasta - Bread Other ingredients Africa - Asia - Caribbean South Asian - Latin America Middle East - The West Other cuisines... Famous chefs Kitchens - Meals Wikibooks: Cookbook Breads are a group of staple foods prepared by baking, steaming, or frying dough consisting minimally of flour and water. Salt is present in most case ...

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A bread clip is a device used to hold plastic bags (such as the ones presliced bread is commonly packaged in) closed. They are also commonly called bread tags or bread-bag clips. By sealing a bag more securely than tying or folding over its open end, the clip may preserve its contents longer. Sometimes the colour of the tag indicates the day on which it was baked. There are two different types of bread clips - a more common one-piece plastic clip, and a more complex mechanical clip. One particular design of bread ...

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Crisp bread (Swedish: knäckebröd, spisbröd or hårdbröd, Finnish: näkkileipä) is a very flat and dry Nordic type of bread, containing mostly rye flour. According to some sources, crisp bread is more than a thousand years old and was a staple of the Vikings on their raids, and as ship biscuit would keep for several months. Traditional crisp bread was invented about 500 years ago and consists of wholemeal rye flour, salt and water. Today, however, much crisp bread contains wheat flour, spices and grai ...

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Cob may refer to: Cob (building), a building material or type of house built from that material a type of paddle (spanking), in full cobbing-board "Close of Business", a three-letter acronym "Chair of Board", a three-letter acronym "Chip on Board", a three-letter acronym, see surface-mount technology the old FIFA country code for Republic of the Congo Central Obrera Boliviana, a federation of labor unions in Bolivia Bread, a type of bread. Generally use

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The baozi (Chinese: 包子; Hanyu Pinyin: bāozi), also known as bao or bau, is a type of steamed, filled bun or bread-like item in Chinese cuisine. In its bun-like aspect it is very similar to the traditional Chinese mantou. It can be filled with meat and/or vegetarian fillings, as well as other possibilities. It can be eaten at any meal in Chines ...

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Pudding is either of two general types of food, the second deriving from the first. The older puddings were foods that were presented in a solid mass formed by the amalgamation of various ingredients with a binder, which might include batter (as in Yorkshire pudding), blood (black pudding), eggs (bread pudding), or a mixture of suet and flour or some other cereal (plum pudding). These kinds of puddings could be either baked, steamed, or boiled. This older type of pudding, still commonly made today in the British Isles, was ofte ...

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Jam is a type of fruit preserve made by boiling fruit with sugar to make an unfiltered jelly. Jam is often spread on bread and also as a culinary sweetener, for example in yogurt. The use of cane sugar to make jam and jelly can be traced back to the 16th century when the Spanish came to the West Indies, where they preserved fruit, but the Greek technique of preseving quinces by boiling them in honey was included in the Roman cook ...

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A burger or "burger sandwich" is a type of sandwich which consists of a hamburger bun or similar type of round bread, and a primary filling of a meat or vegetarian patty. The word "burger" is an abbreviation of the word "hamburger" (see the hamburger entry for an explanation of the hamburger's origins and history). Burgers made with beef are traditionally known as hamburgers, though, due to the profusion of burger types over the last few decades, are also often referred to these days as beef burgers. Other meats such as ...

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A bun is a sweet or plain small bread or a round roll. It can be consumed as-is, made into a sandwich, or designed to be cut in half and filled with ingredients. "Bun" can also refer to a kind of filled dumpling, such as Chinese baozi. Bun - Types of bun. Hot cross bun Spiced bun Mantou - Chinese steamed bun Hamburger bun Hot dog bun Bun - Other meanings. "Bun" is also Internet slang for newbie, formed by reve ...

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Chapati or chapatti is a type of roti or Indian bread eaten in South Asia and East Africa. It is made from a dough of atta flour (whole grain durum wheat), water and salt by rolling the dough out into discs of approximately twelve centimeters in diameter and browning the discs on both sides on a very hot, dry tava or frying pan (preferably not one coated with Teflon or other nonstick material). Each disc is then held for about half a second directly into an open flame, ca ...

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A busboy is an assistant to a waiter or waitress, mainly specializing in setting and clearing tables or in some types of restaurants, in bringing the introductory foods, for example tortilla chips and salsa in a Mexican restaurant or bread in an Italian restaurant. It is also not uncommon for the busboy to be held responsible for serving drinks and sweeping the floor under his tables. The most popular method of organization is for the busboy to be assigned a station, or area of tables, which he or she shall serve. Typically, a busboy ...

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Bannockburn is a village immediately south of the city of Stirling in Scotland. It is named after the Bannock Burn, a stream running through the village before flowing into the River Forth. Burn is the Lowland Scots word for a stream and 'Bannock' is a type of unleavened bread. Marshy land surrounding the Bannock Burn was the site of the Battle of Bannockburn fought in 1314 - one of the pivotal battles of the 13th/14th century Wars of Independence between Scotland and England. A large monument and visi ...

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Cornmeal is flour ground from dried maize (corn) with usage ranging from bread to pesticides. It is a common staple food in many regions of the world. Cornmeal - Types. Steel ground yellow cornmeal, common in the United States, has the husk and germ of the maize kernel almost completely removed. It is conserved almost indefinitely if stored in an airtight container in a cool dry place. Stone ground cornmeal retains some of the hull and germ, lending a little more flavour and nutrition to recipes. It ...

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An ingredient used in many foods, flour is a fine powder made from cereals or other starchy food sources. It is most commonly made from wheat, but also maize (aka corn), rye, barley and rice, amongst many other grasses and non-grain plants (including many Australian species of acacia). Flour is the key ingredient of bread, which is the staple food in many countries, and therefore the availability of adequate supplies of flour has often been a major economic and political issue. Flour can also be made from legumes and nuts, such as soy, peanuts, almonds, and other tree nuts. Flour is always based on the presence o ...

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The bagel (or sometimes beigel) is a bread product traditionally made of yeasted wheat dough in the form of a roughly hand-sized ring which is boiled in water and then baked. The result is a dense, chewy, doughy interior with a browned and sometimes crisp exterior. The dough may also be flavored to produce many varieties: salt, onion, garlic, egg, pumpernickel, rye, sourdough, whole wheat, multigrain, cinnamon-raisin, cheese, caraway, blueberry, and muesli among others. Bagels may be topped with seeds such as poppy or s ...

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Wheat beer is a beer that is brewed with both malted barley and malted wheat, rather than only barley. The addition of wheat lends wheat beers a lighter flavor and paler color than most all-barley ales. Wheat beer is customarily top fermented, that is, fermented with ale yeast. Wheat beers have become very popular in recent years, and are especially popular in warm weather. In earlier centuries, brewing wheat beer was illegal in many places since wheat was too important as a bread cereal to "waste" it for brewing. The two most important varieties of wheat beer are Bel ...

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