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A quick bread type cake that is topped with a streusel topping, glazed frosting, or a melted sugar topping.

A type of roll or bun that is an early 19th Century creation that gets its name from a London bakery that no longer exists, “The Old Chelsea Bun House.” The yeast dough is prepared with white bread flour (wheat) and is sweetened with sugar, enriched with eggs and butter, and is lightly spiced.

A type of quick bread, leavened with baking powder and baking soda, used as a tea bread or dessert bread.

A heat monitor and gauge used to measure temperatures of 100°F to 400°F or higher in hot substances and liquids, when heating sugar for making candy, jam, syrup, and grease for deep frying.

Similar in appearance to mayonnaise, this food is a dressing that is common in Europe, particularly regions around Ireland and the United Kingdom.

A cooking sauce common in India that is generally a mild flavored curry sauce seasoned with a variety of other ingredients.

Originating in Ireland, the Spotted Dog is a fruit bread made using the same key ingredients as the traditional Irish Soda Bread with the addition of sugar and dried fruit.

A traditional French puff pastry which is made in layers of crisp baked pasty separated by cream fillings.

A sweet dark mixture made from the sap of the date palm tree. Referred to as "sweet toddy" the sap is boiled down to produce palm syrup and palm sugar.

A descriptor of grapes that have been left on the vine to dry in the sun. These grapes become raisiny in character and appearance, and have developed the concentrated sugar needed for specialty wines.

A controlled fungus, the term "noble rot" is commonly used when referring to Botrytis Cinerea. Botrytis Cinerea: A mold or fungus that attacks grapes.

A traditional hard flatbread from Holland that is toasted, round in shape, flat-surfaced, and crispy.

A well-known French dessert that consists of rolled sweet crêpes (thin pancake-like flat cakes) covered with an orange sauce that is ignited to become a flaming dessert.

A small apple that has a red outer skin and a cream colored fine textured flesh. This apple has a very sweet flavor with a high sugar content and is a considered a good apple for baking sauces or eating raw.

A sweet, creamy spread used as a frosting and/or a filling for cakes, pastries, and cookies. It is prepared by slowly adding hot sugar syrup to egg yolks as they are whipped over a hot water bath.

A chemical reaction in which carbohydrates are broken down into carbon dioxide gas and alcohol. This is primarily brought about by the affect that yeast has on sugars.

A pastry dessert, which consists of crisp layers of puff pastry, which are covered with a pastry cream filling.

A soft, bread-like cake with a surface of uniform indentations similar to a honeycomb. Waffles are made with a pourable batter that usually consists of flour, milk, oil, sugar, eggs, salt, and baking powder.

To brown a slice of bread or another food product by exposing it to direct heat or by baking the slices.

A variety of bread that is Swiss in origin. It is a shiny golden braided loaf that is often served for breakfast.