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A reference companion to the museum — the craft of bread baking, cakes and pastry, the techniques of the oven, and the ingredients and tools every baker needs. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Bread Baking

The craft of bread — sourdough and yeast, dough and gluten, kneading and proofing, baguettes, flatbreads, and a good crust.

10 entries

Cakes & Pastry

Sweet bakes — cakes and pies, puff and shortcrust and choux pastry, buttercream and meringue, icing, custard, and sponge.

12 entries

Baking Techniques

How bakes come together — creaming and folding, blind-baking, caramelization and the Maillard reaction, chocolate tempering, and fermentation.

11 entries

Ingredients & Tools

The baker's pantry and kit — flour and sugar, butter and eggs, leaveners, chocolate and vanilla, whisks, rolling pins, mixers, and scales.

12 entries