Home Baking

Home Baking

1. Advantages of home baking

   • Better flavour
   • Often a more attractive appearance
   • Usually cheaper
   • No artificial perservatives added
   • Control over the ingredients used
   • No packaging

2. Basic ingredients for baking

   • Flour
   • Fat
   • Sugar
   • Eggs
   • Fruit
   • Nuts and seeds
   • Liquid

3. Flour

   • Flour can be made from rice, maize, rye and oats, but the most common type of flour, is wheat flour
   • In order to produce flour the wheat grains are milled
   • The production of white flour involves more milling than wholemeal flour, as the bran & germ are removed