Multiple Choice: Please Circle the Appropriate Letter to Indicate Your Answer

Cypress College Baking and Pastry Fall 2004

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Multiple Choice: Please circle the appropriate letter to indicate your answer.

1. Which of the following is an advantage that quick breads have over yeast breads? (a) Quick breads can be produced in a much shorter time because no fermentation is necessary. (b) Quick breads are easier to produce because so little mixing is required. (c) There is an almost unlimited variety of quick breads that can be produced. (d) all of the above

2. Which of the following steps gives added lightness to waffles? (a) Adding more fat (b) Mixing thoroughly (c) Whipping the egg whites separately and folding them into the batter (d) Reducing the liquid

3. As you are reading the section of your textbook that describes quick breads made from soft doughs, you are most likely to encounter the words _____. (a) liquid and poured (b) lumps and dropped (c) rolled and cut (d) all of the above

4. Which of the following products is produced from a soft dough? (a) popovers (b) muffins (c) biscuits (d) scones (e) both c and d

5. Drop batters differ from pour batters because drop batters _____. (a) are thicker (b) contain completely different ingredients (c) produce superior products (d) all of the above

6. Gluten development in quick breads _____. (a) should be minimized in order to avoid toughness (b) helps to strengthen flavors that might otherwise go unnoticed (c) takes place as a result of the action of chemical leavening agents (d) is necessary to avoid a variety of problems including tunneling and toughness (e) all of the above

1 7. If a muffin batter is overmixed, then the muffins may _____. (a) have irregular shapes (b) be tough (c) exhibit tunneling (d) all of the above

8. Tunneling in quick bread products _____. (a) results from undermixing (b) refers to elongated holes inside the product (c) can be avoided by decreasing the proportion of fat and sugar in the formula (d) all of the above

9. Which of the following quick bread preparation methods often involves kneading? (a) biscuit (b) muffin (c) creaming (d) none of the above

10. Baking students were told that biscuit dough should be kneaded long enough to produce _____, but not long enough to produce _____. (a) flakiness, toughness (b) toughness, flakiness (c) tunneling, tenderness (d) both a and c

11. Which of the following is responsible for leavening doughnuts? (a) yeast (b) steam (c) chemical leaveners (d) either a or c

12. Popovers are different from other quick breads because they _____. (a) are mixed well to produce gluten (b) are leavened only by steam (c) are made with bread flour and a high percentage of eggs (d) all of the above

13. Which of the following statements about mixing quick breads is incorrect? (a) The creaming method produces fine textured baked goods (b) When using the biscuit mixing method, the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients are assembled separately, and then combined. (c) The creaming method is more time consuming than the muffin method. (d) When using the muffin method, the batter should be mixed very well until it is smooth

14. The advantage of the muffin method is that _____. The disadvantage of this method is that _____. (a) it is fast and easy, overmixing can produce toughness (b) it is cheaper to produce, it takes longer to prepare than the biscuit or creaming method (c) it is easier to learn, it requires more expensive equipment (d) it is used for all quick breads, it completely eliminates tunneling (e) none of the above

2 15. Yeast raised doughnuts that brown too quickly and are overly greasy should be______. (a) Mixed less (b) Fermented longer (c) Adjusted to reduce egg and sugar content (d) Fried at a lower temperature

16. Which of the following sentences would you find in the instructions for both a formula requiring the biscuit method and a formula requiring the muffin method? (a) Cut in the shortening. (b) Add the melted fat or oil. (c) Do not overmix. (d) Continue until the mixture resembles a coarse cornmeal.

17. During a lecture on biscuits students were given many valuable pieces of advice. Which of the following was not one of them? (a) When using a round hand cutter, cut straight down. Do not twist it as you cut. (b) If you want biscuits with brown tops, brush the tops with milk or egg wash before baking. (c) Place your biscuits on the pan so they touch each other if you want them to be soft and without crusty sides. (d) If you want to cut down on scraps, use a round hand cutter rather than a roller cutter or pastry cutter knife.

18. Before they are filled, muffin tins and loaf pans should be _____. (a) greased with shortening and dusted with flour (b) greased with a commercial pan grease preparation (c) either a or b (d) neither a nor b

19. The ideal temperature range for frying doughnuts is: (a) 175 to 200 degrees (b) 265 to 275 degrees (c) 365 to 385 degrees (d) 385 to 400 degrees

20. When portioning batter into muffin tins, it is best to _____. (a) stir the mix between each portion to make sure it is thoroughly combined (b) scoop the batter for each portion from the middle of the mixing bowl (c) dip the portioning scoop in warm water between portions (d) all of the above (e) none of the above

21. Which of the following pairs of quick bread products use the same mixing method? (a) biscuits and scones (b) muffins and scones (c) popovers and soda bread (d) gingerbread and soda bread (e) none of the above

3 True/False: Please circle the appropriate letter to indicate you answer.

22. T F Muffins, biscuits, and popovers must not be mixed for a long time or they will be tough.

23. T F Biscuit dough will rise to about 4 times its original height when baked.

24. T F Muffins that contain a high percentage of sugar are likely to be more tender than those with less sugar.

25. T F Muffin batter may be mixed in advance and refrigerated, as long as the batter is mixed well again before baking.