Baking is a method that often uses the oven to
prepare food. Baking is used to create sweet and savory goods like
cookies, cake, brownies, pies, eclairs, and much more. It can be a
technique that is very relaxing because you only have to think about
what the next step in the process is rather than constantly thinking.
Each culture has their own special goods and trying to bake new things
is very fun.
The earliest processing of cereal grains probably involved parching or
dry roasting of collected grain seeds. Flavour, texture, and
digestibility were later improved by cooking whole or broken grains
with water, forming gruel or porridge. It was a short step to the
baking of a layer of viscous gruel on a hot stone, producing primitive
flat bread. More sophisticated versions of flat bread include the
Mexican tortilla, made of processed corn, and the chapati of India,
usually made of wheat...