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Email Classes

Sign Up and Learn to Cook and Bake

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This growing list of email classes will teach you how to bake and cook with lessons that arrive each day in your inbox. You will learn the basics of cooking, how to read a recipe, how to measure ingredients, doneness tests, food safety, and the science behind quick breads, cakes, grains, rice, potatoes, and more. Sign up today and you will soon be a confident, knowledgeable cook.

Email Classes

  • How to Bake
    Welcome to "How to Bake". The old adage 'if you can read you can cook' is not really true. You must learn the language of the kitchen, how to read a recipe, measuring techniques, and doneness criteria before turning out a masterpiece. By the end of this course you will have baked coffeecake, cornbread, cookies, and an easy chocolate cake. Let's get started!
  • More How to Bake
    Once you have completed How to Bake, start on the intermediate email lesson series. You'll learn about muffins, yeast breads, popovers, cream puffs, layer cakes and pies, with recipes and encouragement along the way. For questions, concerns, and comments, use this thread in the Busy Cooks Forum. Let's bake!
  • How to Cook Side Dishes
    Side dishes can sometimes make the meal, especially at the holidays. Do you know the best way to cook rice, how to make the fluffiest mashed potatoes, and why roasting vegetables brings out their sweetest flavor? Sign up for these email classes and learn all about dishes served on the side.

Future Lessons:

  • How to Cook Meat
  • Once a Month Cooking
  • Cooking and Baking Challenges
  • Appliance Basics

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