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Quotes About Baking

Cooking without oil is surprisingly easy. To keep foods from sticking, you can sauté in wine, sherry, broth, vinegar, or just plain water. For baking, I've successfully used green-light ingredients such as mashed bananas or avocado, soaked prunes, and even canned pumpkin to substitute for oil to provide a similar moistness.
~ Michael Greger
You can even use ground flaxseeds to replace eggs in baking. For each egg in the recipe, whisk one tablespoon of ground flaxseeds with three tablespoons of water until the mixture becomes gooey. Unlike chicken eggs, "flax eggs" are not only cholesterol-free but they're also packed with soluble fiber to bring your cholesterol down11 instead of up.
~ Michael Greger
I baked a cake.
~ Michael Wolf
Looking at this calendar, what are the worst two months of the year when the barrel would be completely empty—meaning everything is crap. Your answer is November and December. Would Aunt Bee ever consider moving in these months? Heck, NO! She is focused on holidays, baking, and hunkering down for the winter.
~ Unknown
AN ANCIENT ANISE BREAD Buccellato
~ Mimi Sheraton
I offer the wisdom of the great American gastronome M.F.K. Fisher, who in The Art of Eating wrote, "No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.
~ Mireille Guiliano
Mit unserer Psyche stimmt etwas nicht, wenn wir glauben, wir müssten uns selbst mit dem Backen von Petit Fours abquälen.
~ Nigel Slater
Wenn Sie schon Blut, Schweiß und Tränen in den Rest des Menüs investiert haben, dann holen Sie einen leckeren Kuchen aus der Konditorei.
~ Nigel Slater
When she was widowed, there were still pleasing qualities in her, suitable for an unpretentious everyday life, and people sent matchmakers to her, but she declined any new matrimony and busied herself with the baking of savory pies.
~ Unknown
Cookies are made of butter and love.
~ Norwegian proverb
If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?
~ Pat Murphy
Because the hardtack was packaged in boxes marked "B. C." (probably for "brigade commissary"), the men took to saying that the crackers were so hard that they must have been baked "before Christ.
~ Unknown
Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.
~ Patricia Briggs
It's quite hard. Making pies, I mean. You wouldn't think it, but there's quite a lot to the process. Bread is easy. Soup is easy. Pudding is easy. But pie is complicated. It's something you never realize until you try it for yourself.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Weigh all your ingredients in grams to achieve greater consistency with your baking.
~ Unknown
of baking pans so that we can make individual brownies with
~ Paula Danziger
The pleasure almost split me like a baking stuffed tomato. Like my heart swelled and my skin got thinner and thinner in the heat of it. Of company.
~ Peter Heller
as well as for the rows of the showbread, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
~ 1 Chronicles 23:29
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
~ Hosea 7:4