Quotes About Baking

#1. The porch light came on and Aunt B swung the door open. Middle-aged and stout, with graying hair rolled into a bun, she looked like she should be baking cookies, not ruling a brood of social deviants with a penchant for hysterical laughter and kinky sex.

Ilona Andrews

#2. He was so close it was hard to breathe. It was exactly like being next to an oven baking a really spicy apple pie.

Lili St. Crow

#3. Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn't mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.

Ben Aaronovitch

#4. Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven?

John Kennedy Toole

#5. Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.

Beverly Lewis

#6. Continental Baking Company, Ninth and Clinton Streets,

Holly Metz

#7. Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

Sandra Lee

#8. The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

Zomick's Bakery

#9. Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history

Michel Foucault

#10. ...and remember: There's no crying in pie baking. -The Bake-Off

Beth Kendrick

#11. You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

David Stern

#12. Good use of time is the universal ingredient in cooking a palatable dish - doesn't matter if you are baking, boiling, frying, brewing, or grilling.

Pawan Mishra

#13. I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the pool baking; he was practically George Hamilton.

C. J. Wilson

#14. Baking may be regarded as a science, but it's the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile.

Anna Olson

#15. Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

Ion Tiriac

#16. Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#17. Churning, baking, spinning and soap-making. In summer,

Elizabeth Enright

#18. Colleen patted his thigh. "Are you up to baking decadently delicious chocolate treats?"
"I am. And eating my fair share, too.

Terry Spear

#19. Picture your grandmother in Hell, baking pies ... without an oven.

George Carlin

#20. So maybe I love you more than baking and racing combined. What? You want an award or something?

Amanda Lance

#21. I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening ... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

Lauren Bowles

#22. Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

Dwight Henry

#23. My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.

Janet Fitch

#24. I'm bad at baking.

Heidi Klum

#25. My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off ... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves ...

Warren G. Harding

#26. As they say: A baking man will grasp at a hangman. Whoever gets the job will be dragged into the heat, forced to wear a massive pair of iron shoes, and frogmarched across the minefield at gunpoint.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#27. So you get the house to yourself and you sprend Friday night baking? Typical teenager.
"What can I say?" I shrug. "I'm a rebel.

Colleen Hoover

#28. Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

Ed Oxenbould

#29. I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies. I'm quite romantic. It's definitely important to have someone make you feel special.

Hilary Duff

#30. Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

Nigella Lawson

#31. Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

Kirby Larson

#32. If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

Sam Donaldson

#33. Sometimes ... we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Nigella Lawson

#34. Language is an art, like brewing or baking ... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Charles Darwin

#35. Baking is ... Life. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes..

Jenny Colgan

#36. I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

Armie Hammer

#37. Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.

Celia Rivenbark

#38. Baking Zomick's challah is comforting, and breads are the sweetest little bits of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

Zomick's Bakery

#39. I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

Mary-Louise Parker

#40. Relax, she's not really converting. (Acheron)
Look at her! She's not exactly baking cookies! (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#41. Nicotine addicted, persecuted, her day is a maddening circle of tea and biscuits, baking, smoking, the necessary fiction of the housewife.

James Claffey

#42. This was why she enjoyed baking. A good dessert could make her feel like she'd created joy at the tips of her fingers. Suddenly, the people around the table were no longer strangers. They were friends and confidantes, and she was sharing with them her magic.

Marissa Meyer

#43. Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Sandra Lee

#44. And she saw herself cooking, baking, canning and working a little in the orchard.

Robyn Carr

#45. The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.

Alain De Botton

#46. My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.

Cilla Black

#47. A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.

Linda Sunshine

#48. Naturally I left the turtle on its back in the baking sun.

Michael Brookes

#49. Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

Blake Lively

#50. My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.

Kacey Musgraves

#51. Everywhere the grain stood ripe and the hot afternoon was full of the smell of the ripe wheat, like the smell of bread baking in an oven. The breath of the wheat and the sweet clover passed him like pleasant things in a dream.

Willa Cather

#52. Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking at Zomick's Bakery is slow and leisurely.

Zomick's Bakery

#53. Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

Dorie Greenspan

#54. Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's unfair.

Thomas Perez

#55. My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her backyard, and one of my favorite memories is of picking lemons together and then baking lemon bars.

Lisa Graff

#56. What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.

Kurt Cobain

#57. I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.

Meaghan Jette Martin

#58. Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.

Hanya Yanagihara

#59. Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden
so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

Julia Child

#60. I grew up in Queens, and on Sunday evenings, my parents would drive my brother and me past the factory. We could smell the week's supply of bread baking. I always connected the 59th Street Bridge with that scent. Who woulda thunk, years later, I'd be there, directing and producing a hit TV show?

Don Scardino

#61. It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.

Annette Bening

#62. Grandma said that a skillet's good for three things: frying chicken, baking corn bread, and going upside an obstinate man's head.

Lisa Shearin

#63. The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

Kathleen Norris

#64. The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

Len Goodman

#65. I know I'm supposed to be a good girl. I know I'm supposed to be happy doing needlework samplers and baking potatoes in coal and whatnot.
But Lord, I love running from the law.

Saundra Mitchell

#66. I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

Nicole Scherzinger

#67. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Regina Brett

#68. People are made up of so many small details. Some - like the smell of cookies baking - we can recreate. Or at least try.

Victoria Schwab

#69. The United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.

Charles Dickens

#70. With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not seconds. Sauteing is energy efficient; baking is not.

Jennifer Lee

#71. The fire crackled up the stairs. It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the canvases into black shavings.

Ray Bradbury

#72. God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!

Chip Ingram

#73. What many bakers don't realise is that good wheat can make bad bread. The magic of bread baking is in the manipulation and the fermentation. What has been lost....is this method.

Lionel Poilane

#74. Rorshach's journal. October 16, 1985. Been waiting in Moloch's fridge for three hours. Ate two raw eggs and packet of honey mustard sauce. Just realized I am sitting on baking soda. Freezing ass off. Really have to take leak.

Alan Moore

#75. I like the idea of baking. I'd like to be good at it. But I feel like I'm young and one day I can be.

Thu Tran

#76. In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

Star Jones

#77. For Bath: Combine one part baking soda, two parts Epsom salts and three parts sea salt. Then set aside this mixture, which is known as a bath base. When you take your next bath, add 5-6 drops of true lavender essential oil to two tablespoons of bath base.

Kimberly Jones

#78. He turns back to me, a strong hand swooping down and sculpting hair off my face, familiar looking arms curling back around me and cradling me into a chest harder and hotter than a mountain left baking in the Australian outback.

Poppet

#79. The nice thing about baking alone in the kitchen before dawn is that you can talk to yourself like a crazy person and no one suspects you're a crazy person.

William Alexander

#80. That's why I named my bakery Flour. It's a reminder that in baking, as in life, simple things are best.

Joanne Chang

#81. I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them.

Jared Padalecki

#82. Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise.

Barbara Kingsolver

#83. Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.

Deb Caletti

#84. The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she'd been and where she was going. Everything was fine.

Jennifer Crusie

#85. I think if the ingredients have nothing that I recognize, that kind of scares me. I like unique ingredients - like charcoal and baking soda - because it's cool to be able to use products with ingredients you see at home.

Shay Mitchell

#86. At their time of life they should be wearing trouser suits and baking cakes, maybe spending their days penning hand-written letters of complaint to newspapers. Not drinking alcopops with crude straws in them.

Matthew Crow

#87. It was like cooking, not baking. Baking took a sense of order. Cooking took a flare, a little art, a little luck.

V.E Schwab

#88. I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

Blake Lively

#89. Baking has always been one of my many hobbies. After I uploaded my first baking tutorial video, I got a really positive response from the online community, and they started to demand more videos like that.

Rosanna Pansino

#90. My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school.

Richard Flanagan

#91. St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

Bertrand Russell

#92. Cut my life into pizzas. this is my plastic fork. oven baking, no breathing, dont give a fuck if its carbs that i'm eating' -Catherine Spann

Catherine Spann

#93. I want to work on some more complicated baking ... and it would be interactive!

Lisa Loeb

#94. Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.

Buzz Osborne

#95. When I got to Zomick's Kosher Bakery I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good Zomick's challah doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

Zomick's Bakery

#96. Baking bread is as glorious as planting flowers, as doing a cardiac bypass, as teaching a child to read.

Laura C. Schlessinger

#97. I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

Martha Stewart

#98. Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.

Lee De Forest

#99. Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

David Brier

#100. My hubby makes a mean salmon steak at the grill, but he leaves all the sides up to me. I love to grill and roast vegetables. I also experiment with baking instead of frying some things, like onion rings. I even make biscuits with coconut oil these days.

Kimberly Schlapman