'baking' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of cooking food in an oven, for example: "I love baking cakes for my family".
Prick the base and refrigerate for a further 30 minutes. 3 Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4. Line the pastry shell with greaseproof paper and fill with baking beans and blind bake for 20 minutes, before removing beads and greaseproof paper and baking it for another 10 minutes.
Perhaps it's that early exposure to religion that made me more interested in baking traditional cakes and breads for holidays.
Cook for 35 minutes, stirring two or three times throughout to ensure even baking.
You must press the ends together firmly, squeezing until the dough adheres to itself, otherwise the bagels will unravel during boiling and baking.
Future trips planned by the School of Life include one entitled Around the World inside the M25 (exploring London's different ethnic cuisines and attractions) and a Simple Living weekend, which will combine discussions about living austerely with simple pleasures such as walking, baking and cloudspotting.
Double sieving helps to distribute the baking agents more evenly.
She couldn't muster enough interest in life to haul herself out of bed most days, until (she wrote on her blog): "I started baking cakes, because I was so totally unable to do anything else and I found it comforting and it got me through the day".
The weather on day 11 was perfect for Nadal, baking the clay into the sort of surface on which his top-spun forehand normally creates mayhem, but not this time.
Makes 18 240g plain flour 240g strong white flour 1¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda 1½ tsp baking powder 1½ tsp salt 280g unsalted butter, at room temperature 285g light brown sugar 225g caster sugar 2 large eggs 2 tsp vanilla extract 565g dark chocolate discs (at least 60% cacao content) Sea salt 1 Sift the flours, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
2 Line a baking tray with baking paper, then cut the pastry into rounds, gathering the scraps together until it is all used.
A couple of years ago, the Irish author Marian Keyes wrote a book entitled Saved by Cake after baking helped her survive a severe depression.
