OnTap Magazine

FEATURE If there’s one thing that lockdown has taught us, it’s how to make our own food. Forgotten pleasures like bread-baking, jam-making, pickling, preserving and the art of drying your own biltong gave the quarantined masses a purpose in life. Since we’re celebrating all things edible in this issue, we asked a few experts to share their tips, tricks and recipes with us. Bon appétit! Photo by: Marla Burger BAKER’S MATH In baking, recipes are worked out in percentages or baker’s math, with the flour always being 100% and then the rest of the ingredients measured against that.  So if we are using 1kg flour and the water is 60%, then it's 600g water. If it was 85% then it would be 850g water. 38 | Autumn 2020 | ontapmag.co.za