A Baker's Dozen - Lab Manual (2025)
Published by the Home Baking Association
Product Description
The Home Baking Association serves the grain, milling and baking industries as a non-profit resource for in-school secondary Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) foods and culinary educators, community extension educators and youth out-of-school leaders. A Baker's Dozen Labs, 3rd Edition, provides standards-based education and career connections, is written, tested and vetted by FCS educators and HBA's agricultural, milling and baking industry professionals and partners in foods, culinary, and career education. The related Glossary of Baking Terms and Techniques is aligned with cross-industry resources.A Baker’s Dozen Labs digital manual provides 242 pages of teaching material designed to build a baking bridge of knowledge and skills from home to career best practices, baking science connections, history, computer research links, ingredient, temperature, measurement, and applied baking to serve home, community, entreprenuerial and career connections.
The Lab manual includes
- Thirteen labs with first, intermediate and advanced culinary baking recipes/formulas and lessons,
- Classroom-tested labs aligned with 35 National FCS Standards and dozens of career clusters,
- Ingredient and baking history, math, science, literacy and human wellness goals teaching tools and strategies,
- Scientific baking ingredient, temperature or test-kitchen experiments,
- 35+ dual baking formulas for volume and weight so students are comfortable with both baking recipes and formulas to succeed with both and can practice skills at home or community settings,
- Computer labs, skills and techniques activities, consumer and baking math, service learning and career connections are key components,
- 32+ copy-ready resources, rubrics and worksheets in the Appendix
- Online Bakers Glossary of 350+ terms and techniques listed in the labs that is continually updated at HomeBaking.org
