High Altitude Baking — All your questions answered
High Altitude Baking — All your questions answered
This text is an excerpt from the book, Pie in the Sky, by Susan G. Purdy
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Friends in High Places | ||
| Twelve High Altitude Myths | 23 | |
| About the Recipes | 26 | |
| Equipment and Ingredients | 28 | |
| Muffins | 42 | |
| Quick Breads, Scones, Biscuits, Popovers | 57 | |
| Yeast Breads | 83 | |
| Cakes | 107 | |
| Cookies | 218 | |
| Pies | 261 | |
| Soufflés | 305 | |
Appendix
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315 | |
| Index | 329 |
When altitude increases, air pressure and barometric pressure fall, affecting practically everything, whether it lives on or grows in the earth or moves 
through the air- from just plain folks to Olympic athletes, from baseballs, footballs, and golf balls to cars. This page brings you various oddments, or less widely known aspects of the high life, beyond baking (while cakes don’t literally fly through the air, they do actually have to rise through it, so they, too, are affected by changes in atmospheric conditions...see High Altitude Baking Science). Contact us if you have some interesting altitudinous information to contribute.
Golf balls are said to go 5% farther at 7,000 feet than at sea level. Manufacturers of sports equipment make special high altitude products; for example, you can buy high altitude tennis balls,
or gas camping stoves tuned for reliable use in extreme mountain conditions.
