Baking Guides

Ask five kitchens for the Yorkshire pudding ratio and you'll get five different answers, all delivered with total confidence. Equal parts egg, flour and milk. Weigh the eggs, match the flour, add h …

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If your mince pies have ever come out with a pale, soggy base while the filling has welded itself to the tin like cement, the tin is a more likely culprit than the recipe. Mincemeat is sugar and fa …

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A 1lb loaf tin measures about 19cm (7.5 inches) long including the rim, with a top opening of roughly 16 x 10cm and a depth of around 6.5cm. It holds about 0.8 litres, which is a loaf made from rough …

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UK loaf tins come in two standard sizes. A 1lb loaf tin is about 19cm long and holds roughly 0.8 litres (450g of dough); a 2lb loaf tin is about 25cm long and holds roughly 1.5 litres (900g of doug …

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UK muffin tins come in three cup sizes. A mini muffin tin has 4.5cm cups holding about 30ml each, a standard muffin tin has 7.5cm cups holding about 120ml, and a jumbo (sometimes sold as a "deep" o …

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An egg ring and a crumpet ring do the same basic job: they hold something round in shape while it cooks in a frying pan. The difference is the build. A typical egg ring is thin metal or silicone, a …

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