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unusual facts about Baking



Aloe perfoliata

A very tough and compact species, it looks good growing on embankments, rocky slopes and walls, and it easily survives through both baking summers and snow in the winter.

Barry Callebaut

In November 2005, America's Test Kitchen named Callebaut's cocoa powder its top brand for baking.

Bonnie Franklin

In the 1960s, she portrayed a teenage feature character in "You're the Judge," a short educational film about baking sponsored by Procter & Gamble and featuring the use of Crisco.

Calumet

Calumet Farm, a well-known Thoroughbred horse breeding farm, owned by the founder of the Calumet Baking Powder Company

Challah

For the Shabbat Mevarchim preceding Rosh Chodesh Iyar — i.e., first Shabbat after the end of the Jewish holiday of Passover — there is a custom of baking schlissel challah ("key challah") as a segula (propitious sign) for parnassa (livelihood).

Charles J. Bates

Charles J. Bates (May 4, 1930 – September 28, 2006) was an American food scientist who was involved in the development of baking formulas for angel food and devil's food cake, then later developed high fructose corn syrup sweetener for Coca-Cola.

Chorleywood bread process

The CBP, or no time method, was developed in 1961 by the British Baking Industries Research Association based at Chorleywood, and is now used to make 80% of the UK's bread.

Cook's Illustrated

Many issues also include a two-page spread illustrating details on a general method or task, such as "Mastering the Art of Stew" or "Stocking a Baking Pantry".

Cuban pastry

Cuban pastries (known in Spanish as pasteles or pastelitos) are baked puff pastry-type pastries filled with sweet or savory fillings.

Daldinia concentrica

According to legend, King Alfred once hid out in a countryside homestead during war, and was put in charge of removing baking from the oven when it was done.

Dingras, Ilocos Norte

On October 9, 2007, Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines eyed a "Guinness World Records" certification after baking a kilometer-long "bibingka" (native cake) made from 1,000 kilos of cassava and eaten by 1,000 residents.

Fred Gehrke

By 1949, the Riddell sporting goods company had created a plastic helmet, baking in Gehrke's design.

German chocolate cake

Its roots can be traced back to 1852 when American Sam German developed a type of dark baking chocolate for the American Baker's Chocolate Company.

Gimmee Jimmy's Cookies

A baking facility in Blandon, Pennsylvania was hired to bake, pack, and ship Gimmee Jimmy's Cookies across the country.

Gooey butter cake

Haas baking sells a widely distributed, square and packaged version in a box that depicts a colorful, if anachronistic scene of aviator Charles Lindbergh's plane the Spirit of St. Louis flying past downtown St. Louis, the Gateway Arch and the modern cityscape in clouds.

Grodzinski Bakery

Grods prospered under Harry's and Ruby's tenure, beginning with the opening of a second location at 91 Dunsmure Road, Stamford Hill, to which baking was moved.

Hushpuppy

Typical hushpuppy ingredients include cornmeal, wheat flour, eggs, salt, baking soda, milk or buttermilk, and water, and may include onion, spring onion (scallion), garlic, whole kernel corn, and peppers.

Issaquah Salmon Days

The Kiwanis are still in town baking salmon, just the amount (now more than a ton a year) has increased.

John Barleycorn

In the 1973 horror film The Wicker Man, a Scottish Policeman played by Edward Woodward searches for a missing child on the west Scottish island of Summerisle, which is populated by modern-day pagans who engage in various Celtic rituals, one of which is the baking of barley bread into the figure of a man known as John Barleycorn, who is referred to by the baker as "The life of the fields".

Kandy Kakes

Kandy Kake is a product produced by the Tasty Baking Company as part of the Tastykake product line.

Koeksister

A monument of a koeksister in the Afrikaner enclave of Orania recalls a folk tradition of baking them to raise funds for building of churches and schools.

Lardy cake

As reported by the author Elizabeth David, a Hampshire cookbook advises that the cake be turned upside down after baking "so the lard can soak through."

Lisa MacLeod

MacLeod made headlines in the summer of 2007 when Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella suggested she would rather be at home baking cookies than attending a political event with then PC Leader John Tory.

Marie Callender's

The company's history, of a woman in California baking pies for friends, then for restaurants, then opening a chain of restaurants, has a similarity to the novel and movie Mildred Pierce, which appeared years before the Callender story began.

Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon

The book disputes the official view of Lennon as a contented househusband raising his son Sean and baking bread while Yoko ran the family business.

Pachamanca

Pachamanca is a traditional Peruvian dish based on the baking, with the aid of hot stones (the earthen oven is known as a huatia), of lamb, mutton, pork, chicken or guinea pig, marinated in spices.

Paul Bellini

When the Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet (the band who recorded the shows theme song) came to play in cities where the Bellini fans lived, they brought gifts or home baking for the band members to deliver back to him in Toronto.

Ploye

A ploye is a pancake type mix of buckwheat flour, wheat flour, baking powder and water which is extremely popular in the Madawaska region (New Brunswick), Canada and northern Maine, United States.

Quindim

In any case, the mixture is poured into a greased cupcake pan, placed into another baking pan with 1–2 cm of water, and baked at 150–180 C or 350°F until a golden brown crust forms and an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Roger Bradfield

In 1964, he did the spot illustrations for the Bisquick Cookbook for the Bisquick baking product.

Sir Alfred Bird, 1st Baronet

He is best remembered as the proprietor of Alfred Bird & Sons, a company founded by his father Alfred Bird, the inventor of baking powder and the powdered custard that bears his name.

Skene Memorial Library

The Fleischmanns area became the summer residence of a number of celebrities of the era, such as baking magnate Charles Louis Fleischmann, for whom it would later be renamed, conductor Anton Seidl, opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci, and Alexander Skene.

Spotted skunk

Hydrogen peroxide and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) are mild enough to be used on people and animals but changes hair color.

Synagogue of Casale Monferrato

The Museum of Lights (‘Museo dei Lumi’) occupies an underground room formerly used for baking Matzot and houses a growing collection of Menorahs created by contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish artists including Elio Carmi, Emanuele Luzzati, Aldo Mondino, Marco Porta, Tobia Ravà, Antonio Recalcati and David Gerstein.

Thomas Edmonds

Thomas Edmonds (manufacturer) (1858–1932), a philanthropist from Christchurch famous for his 'Sure to Rise' baking powder and the Edmonds Cookery Book

Utensil

Kitchen utensil, one of the tools of cooking and baking — cookware and bakeware

Vicki Lansky

She worked as a spokesperson for Arm & Hammer Baking Soda (January 2001/BSMG), Dole Family Advisory Board (March 2000/Londre Company), Mead Johnson's Enfamil (December 1999/BSMG) and P&G's Bounce fabric softener sheets (July 1997/Marina Mahr).

Vienna bread

Charles Louis Fleischmann, the Czech American yeast pioneer who demonstrated Viennese baking at the first American World's Fair in Philadelphia 1876

Water biscuit

In 1801, Josiah Bent began a baking operation in Milton, Massachusetts, selling "water crackers" or biscuits made of flour and water that would not deteriorate during long sea voyages from the port of Boston.

William Mellis Christie

In October 1934, George Morrow and his brother Frederick K. Morrow owned the Christie, Brown Company, and had controlling interest in the Gold Dust Corporation, the American Linseed Company, the Standard Milling Company, the Ward Baking Company, United Cigar Stores Limited, and United Stores, Inc.

Zack Grumet

At age eighteen, he moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, and apprenticed at Kupel’s Bake and Bagel, where he was trained in kosher-style baking by his mentor and master baker Ralf Schwartz.


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