Ingredients Flashcards
After Studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1. Understand the characteristics and functions of the major baking ingredients. 2. Make appropriate adjustments in formulas when substituting ingredients, such as dry milk for liquid milk and dry yeast for cake yeast. 3. Identify the main types of wheat flours by sight and feel.
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The hard outer covering of wheat kernels and other grains is called bran.
True
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Strong flour is made from wheat with a high protein content.
True
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Cake flour is usually weaker than pastry flour.
True
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Rye blend is a mixture of various grades of rye flour.
False
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Rye flour stays in a lump when squeezed in the hand, but cake flour does not.
False
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Not all sugars have the same degree of sweetness.
True
True or False
False
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Fales
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False
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True
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False
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True
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True
True or False
False
True or False
False
True or False
True
True or False
False
True or False
False
True or False
True
Which of the following is the strongest?
a. Patent Flour
b. Pastry flour
c. Pumpernickel Flour
d. Cake Flour
a. Patent flour
Clear flour is normally used to make which of the following baked goods?
a. Pie dough
b. Rye bread
c. White sandwich bread
d. All of the above
b. Rye bread
Which of the following starches is used to thicken pie fillings that are to be frozen?
a. Cornstarch
b. Wheat starch
c. Waxy maize
d. Instant starch
c. Waxy maize