Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Learn How to Bake with BBC Good Food
The classes allowed the learner to become more comfortable with ingredients and techniques. It involved taste texture investigations, equipment and ingredient know-how and how to anticipate and eliminate potential failure points. Furthermore students learned practical recipes to deepen the theoretical knowledge with practical examples. The course also covered how to read & amend a recipe, what to look for in ingredients, bakeware and kitchen equipment tips, and how to taste.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Cassie Best
Food Director
BBC Good Food
Lulu Grimes
Managing Editor
BBC Good Food
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the techniques used in cooking, and in particular baking.
- Investigate the behaviours that they will create around them as they cook, the cultural role that baking plays in life and how to become better cooks.
- Research and compare recipes that they want to try, they will learn to evaluate what makes a good set of instructions.
- Interpret or "read" a recipe to see if it is workable, and to annotate it to improve it
- Explore new flavours and experiment with different ingredients and be brave when cooking
- Reflect on failure if it happens, assess possible causes and modify techniques.
- Produce baked goods throughout the course will therefore test the theory
Syllabus
Beginner baking covers the techniques, skills and baking science that will help you improve your baking.
- Week 1 - How to make the lightest, airiest sponge cake
- Week 2 - Make an easy white bread dough that can be used as a loaf, rolls or pizza bases
- Week 3 - The secrets of crisp, tender shortcrust pastry tarts
- Week 4 - Fail-safe methods for making meringues
- Week 5 - How to use chocolate in recipes and the best ever brownie recipe.
Each class involves a taste or texture investigation, tips on the best equipment to use, and a look at how to choose ingredients. Plus we teach you to evaluate new recipes and anticipate and eliminate potential failure points.
Each class ends with a recipe to make and supplemental recipes to grow your baking repertoire. We will help you every step of the way.
Issued on 27th June 2021
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