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Quotes About Baking

At school, before I left, I was making cake mixes and taking them to school, giving them to teachers and my classmates.
~ Adriano Zumbo
I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.
~ Dan Savage
I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.
~ Mary Berry
She can tell if her cornbread is done, and all the rest, by their aromas alone—that, or the angels mumble it straight into her ear. It's not the clock that tells you when it's done; the food does.
~ Rick Bragg
the bus is full of German tourists in shorts so short that they required a Brazilian wax for the men as well as the women. There had been thighs as bountiful as baking bread, as wobbly as Jello, and as pitted as the surface of the moon.
~ Rob Thurman
A good conscience is a continual feast, but a galled conscience is as great a torment as can possibly happen, a still baking oven (so Pierius in his Hieroglyph compares it), another hell.
~ Robert Burton
Flour is so essential to cakes, you know.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good - Anne Shirley
~ L.M. Montgomery
A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Yes; but cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good
~ L.M. Montgomery
Well, I am going to leave the war to Haig for the rest of the day and make a frosting for my chocolate cake. And when it is made I shall put it on the top shelf. The last one I made I left it on the lower shelf and little Kitchener sneaked in and clawed all the icing off and ate it. We had company for tea that night and when I went to get my cake what a sight did I behold!
~ L.M. Montgomery
Well, I am going to leave the war to Haig for the rest of the day and make a frosting for my chocolate cake.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix ground beef, rice, ½ cup water, onion, salt, garlic salt, and pepper together. Using a large spoon, take scoops from mixture and shape into round balls. Place balls in ungreased baking dish. Stir together tomato sauce, 1 cup water, and Worcestershire sauce and pour over porcupines. Cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes. Remove foil and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Serves
~ Laura Childs
Southern Spoon Bread 2 cups water 1 cup cornmeal 1 cup milk 2 eggs 1 Tbsp. melted butter 2 tsp. salt Mix water and cornmeal in pan. Heat to boiling point and cook for 5 minutes. Beat eggs well, adding in butter, salt, and milk. Add egg mixture to cornmeal mixture. Beat well and bake in a well-greased pan for approximately 25 minutes.
~ Laura Childs
Baked Pork Chops in Creamed Corn 4 pork chops 2 Tbsp. oil 1 can creamed corn ½ onion, chopped ¼ cup milk salt and pepper Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Brown pork chops in oil, then place in baking dish. Mix together creamed corn, chopped onion, milk, salt, and pepper. Pour over pork chops and bake for about 2 hours or until fork-tender. Serves 4.
~ Laura Childs
Cooking — that is, the actual mixing, measuring, boiling, and baking — was taught under the heading Laboratory Practice.
~ Laura Shapiro
Pie makes everybody happy.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I've got a cake rising," Eliza said. "I'm not leaving that for any man
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
If Mrs. Elliott chose to work off her upset by indulging in an orgy of baking, it was fine with me.
~ Laurie R. King
If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?
~ Pat Murphy
My birthday cake was her latest project because it was not from a mix but instead built from scratch- the flour, the baking soda, lemon-flavored because at eight that had been my request; I had developed a strong love for sour. We'd looked through several cookbooks together to find just the right one, and the smell in the kitchen was overpoweringly pleasant. To be clear: the bite I ate was delicious. Warm citrus-baked batter lightness enfolded by cool deep dark swirled sugar.
~ Aimee Bender
Marry, don't marry,' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel. Just don't have your babies unless it's absolutely necessary .' How do I know if it's necessary?' She stops and stares ahead, her hands gloved in flour. 'Ask yourself, Do I want a baby or do I want to make a cake? The answer will come to you like bells ringing.' She flickers her fingers in the air by her ear. 'For me, almost always, the answer was cake .
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is like looking out of their eyes.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life.
~ Jean-Claude Van Damme