VIDEO: No parchment paper in the house - so you can still bake

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In order to bake, you need parchment paper. It makes it easier to use, the tray stays relatively clean and it prevents the baked goods from sticking. Back then, the mothers and grandmothers knew baking without baking paper. It didn't exist then. What did they do to prevent sticking to the baking sheet when there was no parchment paper?

No baking paper in the house - the alternative

  • If there is no baking paper in the house, you will have to treat the tray in some other way if you want to bake cookies. Here it is advisable to rub the tray with a piece of butter.
  • For slightly sticky, doughy baked goods, you can brush the tray with a little vegetable oil.
  • One Pizza For example, you can also put everything on the baking sheet without anything, as the dough is relatively dry at the bottom and does not stick so badly.
  • As a further inexpensive alternative to baking paper, there are also modern silicone covers for baking sheets. You simply place them on the tray before baking and place the baked goods, regardless of what they are, on the silicone pad. You can get the silicone pads cheaply at the discounter.
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  • Placing aluminum foil on top is less ideal, as aluminum foil absorbs the heat from below and the cookies to be baked may not be finished properly from below.
  • To prevent the dough from sticking to the tray, you can also sprinkle some flour, semolina or breadcrumbs on the tray.

Prepare the baking tray

  • If you have parchment paper in the house, you could cut the pieces to sheet size beforehand. Then you always know straight away when it is running out and you can get yourself a new roll of baking paper right away.
  • The silicone pad should remain an alternative, even if there is no baking paper, as it becomes quite unsavory in the long run. You can hardly remove the fat from the support, not even in the dishwasher.
  • So it would be better to use butter, as the mothers and grandmothers of the past generations have done.
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