Quickbreads!!!

To reflect upon our first unit in Baking and Pastry, I now look back to how much we have done in such a short amount of time. My group made six different quickbread recipes: pancakes, crepes, grandma’s muffins, pumpkin muffins, biscuits, and scones. I learned so much during this unit including the biscuit method, which is cutting the butter into the dry ingredients of biscuits or scones, and the creaming method, which is to cream the butter and sugar together before mixing other ingredients. The thing that I want to work on in the next unit it mis en place. We never had all my ingredients and tools in our work area and that made us waste a lot of time waiting and looking for ingredients or tools. I was constantly going back into the kitchen to get tools like measuring cups, levelers, and scoops. If we did do mis en place, we would have easily cut down five minutes of the time we spent looking for items. Hopefully in the next unit, my group will accurately use mis en place to get our baking done faster so we can have our food by the end of the period.

~Maryyam A