Re: Expressing "that's how"

One way that none of the others mentioned is the posessive approach as in
Mandarin.  In Mandarin you can mark an entire phrase as posessive and use
it to modify another word or phrase, something like this:

   thus the (you bake a cake)'s way proceedes
or in your syntax:
   thus proceeds the (bake you cake)'s way

My language, Idrani, can do this using a relativising circumfix (k'...ko)
and adding a posessive suffix to it something like this:
   thus, the way k' you cake bake ko-POS. proceeds

with the Idrani method, you can use either a possessive suffix, as above,
or a modifier suffix similar in meaning to the '-ish' in 'sheepish':

   thus, the way k' you cake bake ko-ish. proceeds

this structure would work in your case too:

   thus proceeds the (bake you cake)-ish way

Hope this is helpfull.  If you want a more complete description of my
relativising circumfix, click this link
<http://idrani.perastar.com/idrani/ISMS_morphology.htm#PTrel>.

Thanks.

T. Pehrson