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Christmas Baking
To ensure your Christmas baking is successful, here are some baking basics to remember.
- Make sure you read the entire recipe before beginning your baking. This is to make sure you have all the ingredients and utensils you will need before you start.
- Use just the ingredients called for in the recipe. An example is: "do not assume that butter, shortening and margarine are interchangeable."
- Adjust your oven racks.
- Preheat your oven.
- Check the oven temperature for accuracy with an oven thermometer before you start to bake.
- Get all your ingredients ready before you start such as, slicing fruit, toasting nuts, separating eggs, melting chocolate, etc.
- Measure all your ingredients and set them out in the order you are going to use them before you start
- Use the baking pan that is called for in the recipe.
- Prepare your baking pan before you start according to the recipe directions.
- Follow the recipe directions exactly.
- Start checking for doneness 10 minutes before the called for time in the recipe. Do this because ovens vary.
- Check for doneness using the test given in the recipe. If none is specified, I usually use a toothpick.
I hope this helps with your holiday baking.
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