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Cooking Tips and Baking Hints Bacon Minimize bacon shrinkage by running bacon under water before frying. This reduces shrinkage by about 50% Baking
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sugar a solid rock? Fill large pot with water. Boil....Place the tomatoes in the boiling water for about 1 minute. Immediately remove the tomatoes and place in a colander. Pour ice cold water over them. This method will make the skin very easy to peel off. Put the tomatoes in sterilized jar and add cold water to cover them. Add 2 tablespoons of salt. Seal and cover! The easiest way to can tomatoes. Have a a pot of boiling water, dip the tomatoes in the pot for about 1 min. Take them out and immediately run them in a colander of cold water. The skin will just fall/peel off. Place them in a canning jar add cold water to cover place a couple of Tablespoons. of salt on top and presto, you can seal them.
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Soups Remove some of the fat in soups by adding a lettuce leaf to the pot. Remove the leaf after fat removal. Place a raw potato in salty soup. The potato will absorb the extra salt. Do a lot of frying but hate the spattering grease? Sift a little flour (put in a sifter) over the ot fat and the spattering will disappear! Just a little flour else you will have a sloppy mess. Always season your food while you are cooking. The seasonings work while the food is cooking and will not be the same if you add it at the table. And, always salt your meat before cooking will not become tough-It will bring out the juice and flavors. ********** Food Safety Tips for Party Hosts You're preparing a feast for your next soiree, but have you thought about food safety? Even the most delicious party spread can be upstaged if proper precautions aren't taken. Click Here for some great Food Safety Tips! Shortening Cut the beans up in their usual lengths. Spread in the sun to dry. Store them in a bag. In winter, soak them and cook the beans in the usual way. Cooking for Two! Healthy Cooking Tips Add too much sugar to a recipe? Did you add too much sugar to a recipe? Try adding salt until it tastes less sweet. If you put too much sugar on a vegetable or other cooked meal, a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar will help Vs. Imitation
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Soups
Do a lot of
frying but hate the spattering grease? Sift a little flour
(put in a sifter) over the ot fat and the spattering will disappear!
Just a little flour else you will have a sloppy mess.
String Beans Add too much sugar
to a recipe?
Did you add too much sugar to a recipe? Try adding salt until it tastes less sweet. If you put too much sugar on a vegetable or other cooked meal, a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar will help.
Did you know that you can turn sour cream into butter? Take 1/2 pint of heavy cream that hs turned sour and pour into a bowl. Beat the cream with an egg beater for about 3 minutes. Do this as you would normally whip cream. After it is whipped, just keep on with the eggbeater until all of a sudden, the cream separates into butter and buttermilk. Keep beating with rotary eggbeater until the solid butter is formed. With a knife, remove the butter from the egg beater and put it into a bowl of ice water. Remove the small lumps of butter from the buttermilk with a spoon and also place in the ice water. Now, squeeze the butter together with your hands in the ice water until you have just one piece of butter. From your 1/2 pint of cream that has soured, you now have about a 1/4 pound of unsalted butter, plus, you have your own buttermilk, which is very hard to get in stores when fresh. This is a fun project for kids they love to see food turn into something else! And, even the youngest can help with this.
Always season your food while you are cooking. The seasonings work while the food is cooking and will not be the same if you add it at the table. And, always salt your meat before cooking will not become tough-It will bring out the juice and flavors. Lamb Cuts Easter Recipes and Easter Tradition Back to Home Page | Email Me! | Copyright 1999-20010| Privacy Policy Ask a Question |
Have lemons that seem a little dry? Don't throw them away. You can wake them up by placing them in a bowl and covering the lemons with buttermilk or sour milk. Let them set for a couple days or longer. Just be sure to change the milk weekly. See the difference? Now, you can use the lemon you would have thrown away! Lemons will also keep for months, if you keep them in a container filled with cold water. Be sure the container has a tight fitting lid! Gather the beans while they are green and tender. Grades of Olive Oil #1 Extra Virgin Highest Grade #2 Super Fine Next Best Grade #3 Fine A Step above the Lowest Grade #4 Virgin Lowest Grade the cold onions will keep you from crying! Pancakes Adding a little sugar to the batter of pancakes and waffles will make them brown more quickly. To keep large quantities of yellow cheese, bacon or ham fresh: Wrap in a cloth that has been soaked in vinegar and wrung out. From time to time, add more vinegar to the cloth. This also seems to make ham and bacon more tender. Fresh Egg Test Fill a bowl or pan with cold water and add some salt. Place the egg in the water. If it sinks to the bottom, it is fresh. If the egg rises to the top, the egg is no good. Save yourself a tummy ache if you are unsure when you last bought your eggs! . Make Food Storage and Sharing a Snap! |
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