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Baking Tips and Tricks

From scratch baking is not difficult or complicated when you understand a few basic skills and techniques. I hate it when recipes take it for granted that everyone know what is meant by "grease and flour the pan" or "partially bake the pie crust."

So, this ever expanding collection of baking tips and tricks is designed to deliver the most basic and important techniques for great home baking.

  • Pouring homemade buttermilk into a small glass jar.
    DIY Buttermilk: How to make your own
  • Four of the best baking recipes made with buttermilk: buttermilk coffee cake, raspberry muffins, buttermilk pancakes, and buttermilk biscuits.
    What to Make with Buttermilk: 24 recipes for baking
  • A bowl of frozen peach chunks next to sliced frozen peaches and an ice cube tray filled with frozen peach puree.
    How to Freeze Fresh Peaches
  • A white tray filled with whipped cream filled cream puffs.
    How to Make Choux Pastry {Pâte à Choux}
  • Butter, eggs, and milk set out on a wood tray.
    How to Quickly Bring Dairy & Eggs to Room Temperature
  • How to separate eggs.
    How to Separate Eggs
  • How to grease and flour cake pans so cakes won't stick to the pan.
    How To Prevent Cakes from Sticking to the Pan
  • Someone using their fingers to crimp the edges of a pie crust inside a pie plate.
    How To Pre-Bake A Pie Crust

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Hello! I'm Rebecca Blackwell, writer, recipe developer, and food photographer. My husband and I are nomads without a home base but with many modes of transportation, namely an RV, a motorcycle, and a sailboat.

While I have cooked professionally, I am a home cook and baker who writes recipes for other home cooks and bakers. My home happens to have wheels, and occasionally sails, which should tell you that if the recipes work in my tiny kitchen, they will certainly work in yours.

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Many of the recipes on this site are tested and photographed by Chef Anne Blackwell.

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