History of Baking Essay

Have you ever come home from school or practice and thought “wow, we have nothing to eat in this house!” I have a solution for you. Puppy chow is one of the easiest snacks to make that takes less than 10 minutes to make. Before anything else, you will need to gather your ingredients: Chex cereal, semi-sweet chocolate chips, peanut butter, butter, and powdered sugar. Along with your ingredients, make sure you have a large bowl to mix things in, and something to make those ingredients with, and a…

I think that mistakes are not key in making discoveries. “Thomas Edison said that inventing was 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration,” as stated in “In Praise of Careful Science.” Inventing is hard, it needs a lot of dedication and work. Few people are lucky to be motivated by mistakes, like Percy Spencer and Isaac Newton. Sometimes mistakes may start the process of making a discovery, but to make a discovery you need careful experiments and study, and those take time and work.…

from porcelain. There are other varieties of ramekins but traditionally porcelain ramekins are desired. After being filled, the ramekins are baked inside a hot water bath. The hot water bath consists of setting the ramekins inside a baking dish and then filling the baking dish with hot water until it reaches halfway up the side of…

everyone is willing to sacrifice in order to see a “Greater Good”. It may not always be necessary, but at times it is better to be able to give up one thing, to make others better. Let’s look at school. You are in a group for Foods and your group is baking cookies. Your favorite cookie is White Chocolate Chip Macadamia Nut, and surprisingly, two other people in your group adore the cookie as well. The last member, however, is allergic to nuts. The group only has the ingredients for the…

“Mixing Mix Up” My grandma’s kitchen smelled of warm chocolate chip cookies and cold milk. It was my favorite day of the week, Wednesday. After school, once a week, my older sister Alexis and I went to my grandma’s house to bake. As we walked through the door we had no idea that this Wednesday would be different from all the rest. “Great job girls!” my grandma exclaimed as she put the first batch of chocolate chip cookies into the oven. “You did so well that you can start the next batch all…

Basic Italian Risotto This recipe for Basic Italian Risotto illustrates a typical method to prepare Italian risotto. The ingredients for risotto may vary indefinitely, as there are numerous types of risotto, but the typical risotto method will remain more or less the same. Ingredients: 1/2 pound risotto rice of your choice (Carnaroli, Superfino Arborio or Roma) 2 to 3 cups stock or broth (depends on ingredients) 2 to 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil…

powdered sugar, sift it to remove any lumps.) Stir to combine. Cover and cook on high for 15 minutes. 2.Reduce heat to low and cook uncovered for 2 hours, stirring occasionally. At the end of the cooking time, evenly spread the walnuts on a lined baking sheet until completely cooled. ROASTED PISTACHIOS Raw pistachios are available at Trader Joe’s (www.traderjoes.com) or health food stores. Roasting your own lets you control the amount of salt on the nuts, which makes them a snack…

A few weeks ago I was being a “screenager” and stalking my social media pages, mainly Pinterest, because… well… its Pinterest. It’s kind of an obsession and I spend an insane amount of time pinning things that I want to eat, and things that I want at my wedding. Yes, I’m 16 and already have over 50 pins of things I want at my wedding. But while I was knee deep in my wedding pinning extravaganza, I stumbled across something called trashy Brownies. Trashy Brownies are a great combination of…

Cheesecake Factory worthy cheesecakes at my home. If you’ve ever tasted any of their food, you would certainly agree this effort would be worth it. I chose a few recipes that looked the most promising, based on components and reviews, and started baking.…

How the Rock Cycle Works by using Chocolate We did a chocolate lab that represented the rock cycle. We used white and dark chocolate in this lab that was the rocks. Than we made the rock into sedimentary which we squashed it together. Than we wrote down what it looked like and we went to stepping on the chocolate which made metamorphic rock. Than we went to the heat plate and we put the bag of chocolate in the hot water and it turned the chocolate into a warm/liquidy substance that is called…