Baking Guides

Crumpet rings look like the simplest thing you will ever buy for a kitchen. A metal circle. There is not much to get wrong. And yet the search that brings most people here starts after something has g …

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The first batch I made from scratch came out like flat, pale discs with a rubbery lid and not a hole in sight. They tasted of raw flour. I had done the classic thing: rushed the rest, cranked the heat …

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Most people don't buy bakeware once. They buy it three or four times. A cheap tin sticks or warps or loses its coating, so it gets replaced with a slightly less cheap one, which fails a little slower …

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The batter goes in and nothing happens. No hiss, no spit, just a quiet slick settling into the tin. You already know how these are coming out: flat, pale, and welded to the bottom by the time you get …

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You follow the recipe to the letter, measure the flour, don't overmix, set the timer. And still they come out flat: pale discs that spread to the edge of the cup instead of rising into the tall, crack …

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Ask five kitchens for the Yorkshire pudding ratio and you'll get five different answers, all delivered with total confidence. Equal parts egg, flour and milk. Weigh the eggs, match the flour, add h …

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If your mince pies have ever come out with a pale, soggy base while the filling has welded itself to the tin like cement, the tin is a more likely culprit than the recipe. Mincemeat is sugar and fa …

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A 1lb loaf tin measures about 19cm (7.5 inches) long including the rim, with a top opening of roughly 16 x 10cm and a depth of around 6.5cm. It holds about 0.8 litres, which is a loaf made from rough …

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UK loaf tins come in two standard sizes. A 1lb loaf tin is about 19cm long and holds roughly 0.8 litres (450g of dough); a 2lb loaf tin is about 25cm long and holds roughly 1.5 litres (900g of doug …

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UK muffin tins come in three cup sizes. A mini muffin tin has 4.5cm cups holding about 30ml each, a standard muffin tin has 7.5cm cups holding about 120ml, and a jumbo (sometimes sold as a "deep" o …

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An egg ring and a crumpet ring do the same basic job: they hold something round in shape while it cooks in a frying pan. The difference is the build. A typical egg ring is thin metal or silicone, a …

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There are two ways lining a loaf tin goes wrong. Either the paper wrinkles and bakes pleats into the sides of your loaf, or you discover, at the exact moment you turn the tin over, that the paper itse …

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