Baking Familiarization

Baking is a common name for bakery and confectionery products manufactured by the baking method, as well as the process itself.

Small-piece bakery products include pastries mainly from bread dough weighing up to 250 grams. These are buns, bagels, croissants.

Confectionery products are made from other types of dough, mainly with the addition of fats and sugar. This also includes unsweetened products with a long shelf life (biscuits, crackers, salted sticks, pretzels). Classic types of confectionery are cookies, pies and cakes.
In the old days, many people is the skill of baking evaluated the willingness of women to marry . A significant share of bakery products is produced in households and small-scale production — in bakeries, bakeries,cafes. Mechanized baking at bakeries is more typical for the USSR and post-Soviet countries, industrial production of other categories of bakery products (primarily bread snacks and powdery confectionery) is typical for most industrialized countries.