Evaluating Shortened Cakes
Cakes $1.50 Ingredients Sugar sweetens and tenderizes cake. It also helps to brown the • Shortened cakes—flour, crust. Generally, granulated sugar is eggs, liquid, shortening, baking used unless the recipe calls for powder or soda, sugar, salt, brown or confectioner’s sugar. flavorings. Fat tenderizes cakes and makes • Angel cakes—flour, egg whites, them rich and moist. Butter is used cream of tartar, sugar, salt, in manyDATE. recipes for shortened cakes. flavorings. Hydrogenated shortening or marga- mericans have enjoyed • Sponge cakes—flour, egg yolks rine also can be used. Use oil only cakes for hundreds and whites, cream of tartar or OFwhen the recipe calls for it (such as A of years. Back in colonial lemon juice, liquid, sugar, salt, for chiffon cakes). days, the old “recipes” called for flavorings. Liquids provide moisture for blending of ingredients. Milk, measurements like “a lump of • Chiffon cakes—flour, egg yolks water, fruit juice, buttermilk, and butter the size of a walnut” or “a and whites, cream of tartar, salad sour milk are the liquids generally dessert spoon full of sugar.” Ingre- oil, baking powder, sugar,OUT salt, used. Use the type of liquid speci- dients were beaten for hours and flavorings. housewives guessed at the oven fied in the recipe. Substitutions may Measure ingredientsIS carefully. temperatures in their wood stoves. change the quality of the cake. Cake recipes are carefully balanced Today, modern appliances and Leavening agents make cakes and may fail if you use incorrect standardized recipes have taken rise. Baking powder is a common measurements. Ingredients should away much of the labor and trial- leavening agent that releases carbon be at room temperature so they can and-error of cake baking.
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