Before you Bake

Baking Recipes contain a number of commonly repeated ingredients, tools, and terms, and although you may be comfortable jumping right in and starting a recipe, this chapter gives you some guidelines to the phrasing used in this book.

In addition, the chapter introductions contain general advice for recipes within that chapter. These topical blurbs cover some of the most common baking questions I am asked. Specific tips, called “Notes from Anna’s Kitchen,” also accompany certain recipes for when you are making the recipe (not everyone reads the opening chapters to a cookbook before they begin!).