This page gathers the 35 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Baking”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples.
- autolysis noun A two-stage mixing process where water and flour are combined first before adding leavening and salt.
- baking beans noun Small heat-resistant weights, usually ceramic or metal, used to hold pastry down during blind baking in order for it to not puff up or…
- baton noun A short baguette.
- brownie noun A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
- brownulated adj Being a free-flowing form of brown sugar with significantly lower moisture content than traditional types.
- buckle noun Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping.
- chou noun Choux pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake with a sweet filling.
- cinnamon roll noun A rolled pastry flavored with cinnamon and sugar.
- cocoa powder noun A powder derived from ground cocoa solids, which is used to make the drink of cocoa, various chocolate products, also used as an ingredient…
- crinkle noun Chocolate crinkle; a type of cookie made of primarily cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and water
- curl noun A thin, curved piece of chocolate used as decoration.
- dariole noun A dessert consisting of puff pastry filled with almond cream, baked in an oven.
- drizzle noun A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
- dry biscuit noun A hard or crisp baked good that is similar to a cracker or cookie.
- ear noun A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
- fake-bake noun An unbaked food item passed off as genuinely baked.
- knock back verb To press or knead (dough) so as to remove air bubbles.
- mother dough noun A live dough used as the source of starter dough, containing live (traditionally, environmentally derived) yeast and ground grains, for…
- nib sugar noun A product of refined white sugar that is very coarse, hard, opaque white, and does not melt at temperatures typically used for baking.
- opera cake noun A French cake made with layers of almond sponge soaked in coffee syrup, layered with ganache and coffee buttercream, and covered in a…
- overproof verb To proof (allow dough containing yeast to rise) excessively.
- overprove verb Alternative form of overproof.
- patent adj Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
- placenta cake noun A dessert cake originating in ancient Greece consisting of layered dough interwoven with cheese and honey, along with various other…
- proof verb To allow (yeast-containing dough) to rise, especially after it has been shaped
- proofroom noun A room where dough is proofed (allowed to rise).
- prove noun The process of dough proofing.
- retarder noun A refrigerator used to slow down proofing of yeast when making dough.
- short adj Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- shorten verb To make crumbly.
- slate pencil noun A hard, grey coloured, aniseed flavoured, sugar-based confectionery in the shape of a rod or stick.
- sponge verb To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
- starter dough noun A small amount of "live" dough used in traditional bakery to start the fermentation process necessary for preparing sourdough.
- underproof verb To proof insufficiently.
- windowpaning noun A test of the texture of bread dough, stretching it out into a translucent sheet.