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A British baking recipe rarely asks for just flour, sugar and fat. It is more likely to specify plain flour, caster sugar, unsalted butter and perhaps bicarbonate of soda. Those names are not just...
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Baking Guides
Bread dough does not always follow the timetable printed in a recipe. A cool kitchen, cold ingredients or a rich dough...
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Cooking Tips
A plain sponge and a cake filled with fresh cream may use similar cake layers, but they should not automatically be...
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Ingredient Guides
Plain flour and self-raising flour can sometimes stand in for each other, but the direction of the swap matters. If a...
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Ingredient Guides
Butter and a suitable baking margarine can both work well in baking, but that does not mean they will behave exactly...
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Baking Guides
The timer goes off and the cake looks golden on top. That still does not tell you for certain what is happening in the...
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Baking Guides
A dry cake does not always point to the same mistake. One cake may crumble as soon as you cut it. Another may hold...
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Baking Guides
A cake recipe says to use a 20 cm round tin, but the tin in your cupboard is 18 cm or 23 cm. That difference might not...
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Cooking Tips
A fan oven and a conventional oven can be set to different temperatures for the same recipe, and there is a simple...
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