Baking Basics are hard to find in most cookbooks and websites,they just give you a list of tasks to follow and wish you a successful baking experience. They instruct you on the need to organize and prepare your space. However, as a busy person there isn’t always time to assemble your ingredients, set up your space, arrange your pans and tools and try to make it look like a television show.
Let’s face it, when you have dinner to cook, laundry to wash and homework to do, you won’t always have the time to turn your kitchen into a bakery. As I found from cooking and baking on the fly, you don’t need to. I take out each ingredient, measure it out and replace it.
I do try to have everything I need put away within easy reach and I do review my supplies to make sure I have what I need. Once I have decided what I want to make, I read over the recipe and grab ingredients as I need them.
Speaking of ingredients. Many of the cooking shows and websites insist that to have a great tasting product you must always use expensive ingredients. That is just great if you have the time and money to invest. However, most people have a budget and buy the baking basics. Unbranded margarine, chocolate chips, flour, sugar etc. and those will work just the same.
When we were growing up, my parents did not have a lot of money and my mom could not afford fancy, expensive ingredients. Still, everything she made tasted wonderful. With that in mind, anyone can make great tasting goodies with very basic, inexpensive ingredients.
Most recipes consist of wet and dry ingredients and as we go we will address some basic principles to keep in mind to make things easy. We will start with the cookie basics and talk about cakes, pies and candy later.
Let’s face it, when you have dinner to cook, laundry to wash and homework to do, you won’t always have the time to turn your kitchen into a bakery. As I found from cooking and baking on the fly, you don’t need to. I take out each ingredient, measure it out and replace it.
I do try to have everything I need put away within easy reach and I do review my supplies to make sure I have what I need. Once I have decided what I want to make, I read over the recipe and grab ingredients as I need them.
Speaking of ingredients. Many of the cooking shows and websites insist that to have a great tasting product you must always use expensive ingredients. That is just great if you have the time and money to invest. However, most people have a budget and buy the baking basics. Unbranded margarine, chocolate chips, flour, sugar etc. and those will work just the same.
When we were growing up, my parents did not have a lot of money and my mom could not afford fancy, expensive ingredients. Still, everything she made tasted wonderful. With that in mind, anyone can make great tasting goodies with very basic, inexpensive ingredients.
Most recipes consist of wet and dry ingredients and as we go we will address some basic principles to keep in mind to make things easy. We will start with the cookie basics and talk about cakes, pies and candy later.
