What are baked goods?

In recent years, baked goods are very popular foods. Many people like to eat baked goods as breakfast or afternoon tea. The taste is very delicious and makes people happy. If you make it yourself, you can also enjoy the joy brought by the making process. In daily life, there are many baked foods. The following is a detailed introduction to what baked foods are.

What are baked goods?

Baked food is a large category of food that uses wheat and other grain powder as basic raw materials and is cooked through a process of leavening and high-temperature baking. It is also called baked food. Although baked goods cover a wide range with various varieties, shapes and flavors, they mainly include three categories of products: bread, pastries and biscuits.

Food Categories

Paste and dough: made with syrup and dough, then stuffed, shaped and baked, such as syrup mooncakes and double sesame mooncakes.

Mixed sugar skin: Use powdered sugar and dough, wrap the stuffing, shape and bake to make moon cakes like Cantonese mooncakes.

Biscuits: Handmade pastry-style biscuits. Oil, sugar, flour and water are mixed together, rolled into sheets and baked to make cakes, such as Gaoqiao crispy cakes and sesame cakes.

Crisp cakes: Made from high-fat, sugar and flour, printed, cut into pieces and baked, such as almond crisps and sugar crisps.

Cakes: Use a large amount of eggs, add sugar and flour, beat into a paste, pour into molds, and bake or steam them, such as Lama cake and square cake.

Fried foods: After being shaped and prepared, they are fried in oil, such as spaghetti, mahua, sachima, etc.

Others: All Chinese pastries whose ingredients, processing and cooking methods are different from the first 7 categories belong to this category, such as mung bean cakes, Yuanxiao, various cakes and dumplings, etc. There are many varieties of Chinese pastries, the most representative of which is moon cake.

Features

It has good preservation properties, is easy to carry and store, and is rich in nutrition.

The characteristic of manufacturing baked goods is to use a low-temperature baking method to reach high temperatures to complete the maturation of the product. Baking is a high-temperature process. When the dough is suddenly heated, the gas contained in it or the gas released by the chemical leavening agent when heated suddenly expands, making the food texture loose. In particular, the temperature reached on the surface of food is higher, and the reducing sugar contained in it will undergo a browning chemical reaction with amino acids and proteins, making the surface of the product a pleasing brown-yellow color and producing unique aromatic substances. These are the unique characteristics of baked goods.

Nutritional Value

Baked goods are necessary for people's lives. They have high nutritional value and are tasty in season. Both bread and cakes are rich and colorful in variety and are constantly being innovated. In addition to traditional ordinary baked goods, baked products that are fortified with nutrition and focus on health functions have appeared in recent years. For example: buckwheat health cake, spirulina bread, high-fiber bread, whole wheat bread, calcium bread, full nutrition bread, etc., can be enjoyed as snacks before or after meals, and can also be eaten as staple food, meeting the different needs of various consumers.

Features

Baked products, especially some colorful pastries, have long been popular among people and have become a large-selling product in the catering industry. Especially in some large and medium-sized cities, it has become a must-have food for people to travel and celebrate festivals. It can be foreseen that with the deepening of reform and opening up, the improvement of people's living standards, the improvement of the quality of baked products and the increase in the variety of products, China's baking industry will have greater development in terms of output, production technology, quality, mechanization and automation.