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baking
Process of cooking by dry heat, especially in an oven. Baked products include bread, cookies, pies, and pastries. Ingredients used in baking include flour, water, leavening agents (baker's yeast, baking soda, baking powder), shortening (fats, butter, oils), eggs, milk, and sugars. These are mixed together to create dough or batter, which is then transferred to a metal pan or sheet and heated. Leavening agents produce gas that becomes trapped in the dough, causing it to rise. Shortening makes doughs more easily workable and the final product tenderer. Egg whites are used to produce a light, airy texture, and yolks contribute color, flavor, and texture. Milk is used for flavoring, and sugars to sweeten and to aid fermentation.


Ballinger
U.S. secretary of the interior (1909-11). Born in Boonesboro, Iowa, he moved to Washington and served as the reform mayor of Seattle (1904-6) before being appointed federal commissioner of the land office. As secretary of the interior, he sought to make public resources more available for private exploitation. Implicated in a fraudulent Alaskan land-claims scheme, he was cleared after a congressional investigation but resigned in 1911. The episode split the Republicans between conservatives led by Pres. W. H. Taft and progressives loyal to T. Roosevelt.


Oakland
City (pop., 1996 est.: 367,000), W California, on the E side of San Francisco Bay. Settled by the Spanish in 1820, it was incorporated as a city in 1854. In 1869 it was chosen as the terminus of the first transcontinental railroad, which led to the development of its deepwater port. It suffered damage and loss of life in the earthquake of 1989, which also damaged the Bay Bridge that connects it with San Francisco. Lake Merritt, near the central business district, is a wildfowl refuge surrounded by parkland. Several colleges are located there.


sailing
Sport or pastime of racing or cruising a sailboat or yacht. A modern yacht (from a Dutch word meaning "ship for chasing") is a sailboat used for racing. In the 17th cent. Dutch royalty sailed early yachts for pleasure; Charles II brought the sport to England. Organized yacht racing on the Thames began in the mid-18th cent.; in N. America yachting began with the Dutch in New York in the 17th cent. and continued under the British. The first U.S. yacht clubs were founded in the mid-19th cent. Sailboat races are held over two kinds of courses, point-to-point and closed. Yacht racing has been part of the Olympic Games since 1900. The America's Cup is the preeminent prize in yachting.


walking
In track and field, a form of racing in which the competitor's advancing foot must touch the ground before the rear foot leaves it. Walking as a sport dates from the later 19th cent. Walking races of 10 mi and 3,500 m were added to the men's Olympic program in 1908, but since 1956 the Olympic distances have been 20 km and 50 km. A ...

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