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5. Eggs – used for added structure, richness and nutrition and good keeping quality.
Functions of eggs in baked items:
a. Structure
b. Emulsifying of fats and liquids
c. Leavening
d. Shortening Action
e. Moisture
F. Flavor
g. Nutritional Vaue
g. Color
6. Liquid – used to hold the batter or dough together and to blend all the ingredients.
CATEGORIES OF MILK
a. Fresh Liquid Milk
b. Cream
c. Fermented Milk Products
d. Evaporated and Condensed Milk
e. Dried Milk
f. Cheese
7. Leavening agent – used to make cakes and yeast breads rise.
8. Salt – is to enhance and correct the flavour of other ingredients in the dough.
9. Flavouring agents – it is used as spices.
10. Chocolate and cocoa - are derived from cocoa or cacao beans. Cocoa is the dry powder that
remains after part of the cocoa butter is removed from chocolate liquor
Kinds of chocolate
a. Bitter Chocolate -Bitter or unsweetened contains no sugar and has a strongly bitter taste.
b. Sweet Chocolate is bitter chocolate with the addition of sugar and cocoa butter in various
proportions.
c. Milk Chocolate- is sweet chocolate to which milk solids have been added.
Quick breads – are breads leavened with the help of chemical leaveners and similarly with mechanical
leavening involving the incorporating of more air into the dough and batter by creaming and mixing
action.