Baking

Preheat the Oven for a minimum of twenty minutes before baking. Use the correct oven temperature and, for proper air circulation, bake as close to the center of the oven as possible. When you transfer a batter leavened only with beaten egg into the pan, bake it as soon as possible after mixing because it maintains its leavening power most effectively this way. Chemically leavened batters (leavened with baking powder, baking soda, or both), however, can be held in the pan refrigerated for up to an hour if oven space does not allow for baking all the batter at once.