What is a good book to help me learn more baking vocabulary?

Question

I am looking for a book with baking vocabulary to help me understand what some recipes are asking for and for certain terms used so I understand them better. Thanks!

Answer 1

Lots of them are on the market, but they're more for the advanced cook.........my suggestion to you is to go to the Food Network.com and access their culinary encyclopedia, and you'll find things and terms that will help you understand the basics of baking.....good luck and Enjoy!!

Christopher

Answer 2

I use dialogue tags when their necessary. Actually, I probably don't use them as often as I should because it always seems perfectly clear to me. I stick with 'said, whispered, yelled and asked' for the most part. I find they're most necessary in scenes with more than two character talking, it's difficult to keep it clear. My characters don't have individual speech patterns for the most part. Unless they are all from different places and back grounds they tend to talk very similar to one another and when they are from different places and backgrounds I usually have groups instead of individual, and so everyone in a specific group talks similar. Of course there are differences, like one character in a group who's very timid and speaks in short direct sentences or characters who ramble on even if a simple answer would work, or characters who curse a lot and that sort of thing but it's not iron clad. Like a character who likes to ramble can still use a short sentence every now and again, so any time I stray from that characters norm I need it to be clear who's speaking. I'll often use action to replace a dialogue tag but only if the action is logical, I would never create action just to avoid using a tag. example: "What did you say?" He stood slowly and crossed his arms under his chest. Everyone in the room avoided his gaze. "Nothing." Jenny said. His action is necessary because it helps to show the reader that he's offended and also, if I have a character stand, he'll be moving soon, either toward her or out the door. However, Jenny is going to stay put so there was no necessary action to fill that void and there's other people in the room, so I wanted it to be clear that she recanted whatever she said to offend him rather than having some readers think that another character recanted for her. BQ: 10. I love dialogue and I'm good at it. My love for writing started with play writing. Dialogue always came very easily to me, now prose is an entirely different story, after years of reading, practising, and taking courses I'm still just kind of okay at prose. If I have something complicated to explain I would rather have two characters discuss then try to explain it through prose. BQ2: Thank you! You're pretty awesome yourself : ) BQ3: While peanut butter sounds pretty good, if you're into that sort of thing, oreo icing sound fantastic! But compromise, go half and half, afterall, variety is the spice of life!

Answer 3

The Joy of Cooking. It has a lot of recipes and full definitions of cooking processes and procedures.

It can teach you how to truss, blanch, fricasse and many other things.

Answer 4

Baking blind means to use plastic bag with beans or another baking pie pan ontop of the crust to hold the crust in place while cooking

Answer 5

http://www.hungrymonster.com will let you subscribe to a daily e-mail newsletter that gives you 2 terms per email. Some are things you'll never see, but it's a good reference if you're learning :) Give it a try...

Answer 6

Company's Coming has a new one out that's kid friendly. It would be a good place to start. You can get them at WalMart.

Answer 7

Books are so 20th century. A beautiful tech savvy girl like you should use these websites.

http://www.international-gourmet.net/glossary.htm

http://www.epicurious.com/tools/fooddictionary/

http://www.foodsubs.com/