Flour Essays

  • Food and Agriculture: Root Crops

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    1-2). In 1960 the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) began a Composite Flour Programme aimed at empowering developing nations with the technology to improve their country’s food security. Composite flour is a mixture of flours from cereals and root tubers. Flour from ground legumes such as soya bean may also be added to increase the protein content of the composite flour. Wheat is often the cereal incorporated in the mixture but cereals such as maize, rice, buckwheat and

  • An Analysis of McDonalds Health Menu

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    quality. The food is not even food. It is poison! The chain restaurants food that is sold to the world population contains over 70 cancer-promoting ingredients (Roberts), not to mention it also contains preservatives that are butane-based, bleached flour, and the main ingredient found in silly putty (Breyer). It is clear that McDonalds does not sell food that anyone should be eating; yet, it poisons 68 million people a day, or in other words one percent of the population (Lubin, and Badkar.) 68 million

  • Recipe: Vanilla Infused Couscous Pudding

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    Vanilla Infused Couscous Pudding Serves 6 / Prep time: 20 minutes / Cook time: 20 minutes Couscous replaces the rice in this dish, creating a slightly different taste and a unique texture in this family favorite. The vanilla bean adds an intense flavor and delightful small vanilla seeds to the pudding, but you can substitute extract if you do not have beans. Look for vanilla beans in the baking section of your local grocery store. 1½ cups plain rice milk ½ cup water 1 vanilla bean, split ½ cup

  • Mathematics of Baking

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    three factors: Moistness Value, Butter Content, and Egg Content. Each wet ingredient is assigned a value per cup. For example, buttermilk has a value of 1, while, apple sauce has a value of 0.6. Each dry ingredient also has a value. Ingredients like flour and almond paste have a value of 1, while, peanut butter has a value of only 2/3. These values can be thought of as weighing the ingredients, relative to their wetness or dryness. ("Two cups of," 2011) Once we know all the values of the ingredients

  • The History of Cake

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    depended upon always being surrounded by animals. When farming was started man began growing many different types of produce, one of which was wheat and grains. The most primitive people in the world began making cake shortly after learning how to make flour. In fact, the remains of their cakes have been found in the ruins of Neolithic villages. “The cakes found there were extremely simple and consisted of crushed grains that were moistened, compacted, and probably cooked on a hot stone.” (Stradley, 1)

  • The Land of Smiles

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    lot of revenue to Thailand through exporting tapioca flour (Thai Tapioca Starch Association). Tapioca flour or tapioca starch is found by removing the starch from the cassava root of the plant. Once the roots have fully grown, they’re harvested, and go through a process to have toxins removed so that the starch may be extracted. It is extracted by repeatedly washing and pulping the root and then taking the liquid and separating it out (Tapioca Flour). The two types of cassava are sweet and bitter.

  • Breading In Baking: A Brief History Of Baking

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    Baking First, in order to understand baking, the history of bread will be discussed. (A Brief History of Baking).Thousands of years ago, In Mesopotamia wheat was discovered. Wheat is one of the earliest known food sources that was able to be stockpiled. If the seed becomes wet new sprouts would grow. With this discovery, it was found that if the seed was planted new seeds would also grow. At first the seed was likely to be chewed. In Mesopotamia and Egypt, these seeds and sprouts were enjoyed for

  • Role Of Starch And Gluten In Bread

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    components of flour in achieving the desired sensory properties of the bread or pasta. Flour is the most important ingredient in bread making as flour contains gluten and starch present in the wheat grains in which flour is made from. The Savoury Twister Bread recipe is found on page 18 of (Anon, 2014) and the type of flour used in this recipe is strong flour. This is a high gluten flour it contains between 12-15% gluten. (P.Cauvian, 2008) states that the higher the protein content in flour the better

  • The Formality Of Baking

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    amounts of fat and sugar are French, Italian, Kaiser rolls, and pizza bread”(Gisslen, p66, ch4). There are dough’s with a higher fat content which provide a taster result. The short dough has a very high fat content. The short dough consist of having flour, sugar, and fat which makes the product such as a cookie or a pastry very crumbly and tender”(http://www.bakingterms.com, 5/24/2005). There are many people who love croissants and Danish pastry’s. To make a croissants or Danish pastry there needs to

  • Essay On Biscuit

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    NURSEL EYLÜL TUNÇÇEVİK ASSİGNMENT 2 FOOD SCİENCE BISCUIT Biscuit is a term of flour based baked products. The history of biscuit is back to 1690. At that time, the Champagne-conscious bakers to use their warm oven after défournage bread, had the idea to create a special paste that after suffering a first firing, was left in the bread oven where she finished drying. Hence the word ‘bis-cooked’ , that is to say, twice cooked. Originally, the cake was white. They wished to flavor the dough with vanilla

  • How to Bake Colonial Bread

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    fire going (coal may be purchased from mine fields and other stores). Step 2: CREATING A DOUGH Next, it is time to start the bread batter while the oven heats up. Using a large mixing bowl, add 11/2 cups of rolled oats and 1 cup of all purpose flour, stirring in 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 tablespoon of salt, 2 tablespoons of room-temperature butter, 21/4 teaspoons of yeast, and 11/2 cups of warm water fr... ... middle of paper ... .... The bread in this recipe may be served with butter, jams

  • Essay On Fortification

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    the first foods to be fortified in the United States, was wheat flour; which is still practiced today. Although the practice is no longer revolutionary, fortification of wheat flour is one of the topics growing worldwide that not very many people know about. For that purpose, this paper touches on the origin, what affects the basis, and requirements of wheat flour fortification in the United States. The first fortification of flour became possible in 1935, when chemist Robert R. Williams established

  • The Horrors of McNuggets

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    When most people think of McDonald’s, they typically think of the Golden Arch, their famous French fries, cheeseburgers, or their tender, juicy all white meat chicken nuggets, sandwiches, and strips. But what most people don’t know is what really goes into these so called 100% all white meat Chicken McNuggets. The horrid things that they use in their nuggets are right under our noses in the ingredient list, but do we ever take the time to actually read and research what their made of? No, because

  • Peach Cobbler Research Paper

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    peach cobbler is to be sure you have all the ingredients, cookware, and supplies necessary. First the baker should preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Then the baker needs to get the ingredients out. The ingredients needed are; one stick of butter, milk, flour, sugar, and a large can of sliced peaches. The baker will then need to get all the cookware and supplies out. The

  • Carrot Cake Essay

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    cake mix at any local supermarket, but the question is, will it be as spectacular as a home made cake? The answer is no, along with being delicious it will not take much time or effort to create. If you look into your pantry what will you find? Flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar,

  • Chocolate Cake Essay

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    so that I understand the whole process. Sarah first planned the ingredients on the table so that she didn’t miss any ingredient or step involved for that ingredient. There were eggs, sugar, butter, oil, cocoa powder, buttermilk, vanilla extract, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, chocolate chips, milk and brewed coffee. Sarah said that the recipe serves ten people. She arranged all these ingredients and their quantity like this: First there were two eggs, and she revea... ... middle of

  • Measuring Viscosity

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    Measuring Viscosity Aim - to determine how the mass of Corn flour added to 100ml of water affects the viscosity (gooeyness) of the final mixture. Background - Corn flour, when added to water increases its gooeyness of viscosity. Although this value cannot be actually measured, a person can determine a rough value of its viscosity by recording how long an amount of the mixture takes to flow from one receptacle to another. The longer it takes to flow, the more viscous the mixture. The

  • Muffin Recipe Essay

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    Muffins Recipe Chocolate muffins are great for breakfast and after dinner dessert. They combine chocolate flavors and sometimes with chocolate chips. This is perfect for chocolate lovers. Ingredients of Chocolate Muffins One and half cup all-purpose flour Half cup cocoa

  • Paleo Diet Case Study

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    The first time I heard of the Paleo Diet was while having coffee with my Mom and one of her friends. She mentioned being on a diet that I had never heard of before. When I asked about it, she told me about the Paleo Diet and all of issues that it could help with. From that point on the Paleo Diet peaked my interest. I wanted to know what issues the diet could help with and what going on the diet meant. I considered going on the Paleo Diet multiple times, but I could never find a good enough incentive

  • Describe How To Make Pecan Pie

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    following Ingredients. 1 1/4 cups of all purpose flour, 2 teaspoons of sugar, 1/8 teaspoon of salt, 1/2 cup of cold butter(1 stick), Diced, 1 large whole egg, lightly beaten, And a little bit of floou for when you roll out the dough. Make the dough by hand: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, and salt. Using your fingers, work the butter into the dry ingredients until it resembles yellow cornmeal mixed with bean-sized bits of butter. (If the flour/butter mixture gets warm, refrigerate it