What does 'blend' mean?

What does 'blend' mean? Correct Answer Mixing two or more ingredients well.

Blending: mixing two or more ingredients thoroughly.

Key Points

  1. Beating: Mix the materials briskly and drop them with an appropriate tool. Sometimes it is used as synonyms with whipping.
  2. Cutting: it is the incorporation of fat in flour and other sifted dry ingredients with a knife. This method produces a coarse division of fat and does not result in blending as in cutting the fat into the mixture.
  3. Creaming: softening fat by a fraction with a spoon, usually followed by gradual incorporation of sugar as in cake making.
  1. Folding: mixing various materials with a  palette knife/wooden spoon, by a careful lifting and dropping motion as in whipped egg whites into a cake mixture.

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