Category: Cooking & Baking

Like Baked Goods? Celebrate National Bicarbonate of Soda Day

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[1] Baking soda made it so much easier for breads and cakes to rise (Gemini Photo). [2] The base material, a natural mineral called nahcolite that’s refined into baking soda (photo Rob Lavinsky | CC-BY-SA-3.0º. [3] The world’s most recognized baking soda (photo © Church & Dwight). [4] 1950s Arm & Hammer Baking Soda ad.…
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The 16 Different Types Of Pastry For National Pastry Day

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December 9th is National Pastry Day. We consumers might conjure up images of our favorite pastries—apple turnover, cream puff, Danish. And in fact, in a pâtisserie or other professional culinary setting, the term “pastry” can refer to a wide range of elegant and often ornate desserts, confections, and sweet baked goods—which is how most consumers…
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Dandelion Gourmet Chocolate Chips & Chocolate Chips History

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[1] A bowl of top-quality chocolate chips from Callebaut. See all the ways to use them here (photo © Coco Dolce). [2a] Chocolate chip ice cream is one of our favorite ways to use chocolate chips, whether the ice cream is chocolate, coffee, cherry, mint, raspberry, or vanilla. Here’s the recipe for this mint chip…
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Slogans Pouring Chute Attachment For Metal Mixing Bowls

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The New Metro Design Slogans Pouring Chute Attachment For Metal Mixing Bowls is a kitchen gadget that we rushed to buy. We are not the neatest cook: Ingredients always end up on the floor, in spills, and everywhere but their properly designated place. Yes, we are a kitchen klutz, the queen of the messy counter.…
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The Best Foods To Buy Frozen: It’s National Frozen Food Month

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[1] You can mix frozen berries into your oatmeal and enjoy them immediately (photo © Dole). [2] Save money with frozen chopped beef. You can even cook frozen burgers without defrosting them (photo © Butcher Box). [3] It’s much easier to enjoy mango frozen at the peak of sweetness than to figure out how sweet…
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