1. Never over mix muffins and quick breads. Fold dough with large spoon until flour is barely mixed and dough is lumpy.
2. Sprinkle your cutting board with salt before chopping fresh herbs. It will keep them on the cutting board.
3. Store sharp knives in a knife block – or stick wine corks on their tips before placing in drawers.
4. If you need to finely chop bacon, put it in the freezer for 20 min. This will make it easy to chop without being stringy.
5. To test if your oil is hot enough for frying, use a thermometer or stick the end of a wooden spoon in the oil. (Bubbles=ready!)
6. Always let meat “rest” for at least 10 minutes when you take it out of crockpot, pan or oven. It will cut much more easily.
7. Get to know parchment paper. Great for lining baking pans or preventing pastry from sticking to your roller.
8. When rising dough containing yeast, cover loosely with plastic wrap instead of the traditional tea towel.
9. Run out of baking powder? Combine 3/4 of a teaspoon of baking soda with 1 tablespoon of vinegar.
10. Never slice cake more than 15 minutes before serving. It will not taste fresh and may dry out.
11. Never open the oven door while cooking soufflé. And when you take your soufflé out of the oven, never bang the oven door.
12. For perfect Baked Alaska, make sure your cake is not warm and your ice-cream is the hard-brick type – not the creamy type.
13. Learn “base” recipes and then experiment by adding different seasonings or ingredients – basic sauces, muffins, cakes and bread.
14. Don’t just bring your butter to room temperature when preparing to bake: Do it to the eggs you’re planning to use also.
15. Cool your cakes on a wire rack, upside down. (Place rack on cake; then flip over, holding both sides of pan and rack firmly.)
16. Make ordinary cake, cookies or pancakes special by using heart-shaped Valentine’s Day pans.
17. Make a Valentine’s Day trifle in a heart-shaped bowl (large or individual-sized) for extra visual impact.
18. When camping, fully prepare soups, stews and other one-dish items ahead of time. Just reheat while you’re in the woods.
19. There is no right or wrong cheese for a pizza. Go with what you like and what you have on hand.
Have a great week ahead.
2. Sprinkle your cutting board with salt before chopping fresh herbs. It will keep them on the cutting board.
3. Store sharp knives in a knife block – or stick wine corks on their tips before placing in drawers.
4. If you need to finely chop bacon, put it in the freezer for 20 min. This will make it easy to chop without being stringy.
5. To test if your oil is hot enough for frying, use a thermometer or stick the end of a wooden spoon in the oil. (Bubbles=ready!)
6. Always let meat “rest” for at least 10 minutes when you take it out of crockpot, pan or oven. It will cut much more easily.
7. Get to know parchment paper. Great for lining baking pans or preventing pastry from sticking to your roller.
8. When rising dough containing yeast, cover loosely with plastic wrap instead of the traditional tea towel.
9. Run out of baking powder? Combine 3/4 of a teaspoon of baking soda with 1 tablespoon of vinegar.
10. Never slice cake more than 15 minutes before serving. It will not taste fresh and may dry out.
11. Never open the oven door while cooking soufflé. And when you take your soufflé out of the oven, never bang the oven door.
12. For perfect Baked Alaska, make sure your cake is not warm and your ice-cream is the hard-brick type – not the creamy type.
13. Learn “base” recipes and then experiment by adding different seasonings or ingredients – basic sauces, muffins, cakes and bread.
14. Don’t just bring your butter to room temperature when preparing to bake: Do it to the eggs you’re planning to use also.
15. Cool your cakes on a wire rack, upside down. (Place rack on cake; then flip over, holding both sides of pan and rack firmly.)
16. Make ordinary cake, cookies or pancakes special by using heart-shaped Valentine’s Day pans.
17. Make a Valentine’s Day trifle in a heart-shaped bowl (large or individual-sized) for extra visual impact.
18. When camping, fully prepare soups, stews and other one-dish items ahead of time. Just reheat while you’re in the woods.
19. There is no right or wrong cheese for a pizza. Go with what you like and what you have on hand.
Have a great week ahead.
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