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    ASK COOK’S COUNTRY

    Jul 10, 2018 3 minutes
    by Morgan Bolling

    Quick Picks

    In your baking recipes, what do you mean by “when a toothpick comes out clean”?

    –Maggie Lovering, Fort Collins, Colo.

    Given all the variables of a kitchen—oven temperature accuracy, small differences in ingredients (every egg is different, for example), thickness or materials of baking vessels, etc.—we call for a range of baking times in most of our baking recipes. The visual cues we provide when checking doneness, such as “until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean” (for

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