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Lumpy sauce or gravy - Pour gravy or sauce thru a strainer and mash out lumps with a wooden spoon. Re-heat very slowly.
Curdled or separated mayonnaise - Into a warmed bowl, put 1 t. mustard, 1 T. curdled mayo. Beat with whisk until creamy. Add mayo slowly until well blended.
Too much fat in gravy - Pour liquid through icecubes in a bowl. The fat will solidify.
A crack in the middle of cake - The oven was too hot or temp was uneven during baking. Disguise with frosting.
Cake rises too much, overflows pan - Too much baking powder; too little flour; or pan was filled more than two thirds.
Cake rises in oven, caves when cooling - Pan was overfilled or egg whites where beaten when recipe didn't call for it.
Cake has a shiney, sticky streak - Poor mixing; too slow baking, or irregular heating of pan in oven.
Cake is sticky - Too much liquid or too much sugar was used or baking powder was too old.
Weak brewed coffee - Add a little instant to the pot. It will strengthen it without changing the fresh taste.
Bitter tasting brewed coffee - Put a pinch of salt into coffee that was brewed too long.
Weak brewed tea - Add a pinch of baking soda to the teapot.
Too much salt - Add a little vinegar and sugar, then taste. A raw potatoe helps absord the salt in soups or stews.
Stewed fruit is turning sour - Add a pinch of baking soda to the fruit and reboil for 5 minutes.
When stewing very sour fruit - Add a pinch of salt while stewing to reduce the amount of sugar needed for sweetening.
Stored coconut is dry and hard - Put coconut in a strainer over a steaming pot of water for a few minutes.
Hands smell of onion and garlic - Rinse hands in cold water, rub with salt or baking powder, rinse again, then wash with soap and water.
Strong onion or cabbage cooking odors - To prevent odors while cooking, set a tin cup of vinegar on stove and let boil.
Sticky rice - Rinse rice throughly with warm water to wash out the excess starch. Grains will seperate.
Shell cracks while egg is boiling - Add a few drops of vinegar to the water; use eggs at room temp.
One egg short for a recipe - Substitute 1 teaspoon of cornstarch.
Tough rubbery omelet - Add one scant teaspoon of boiling water per egg to mixture to keep omelet from being tough.
Slightly stale bread - Sprinkle bread with water or milk; wrap in foil, bake at 350 degrees for about 8 minutes. If hard crustd, open foil for 3-5 min. more.
Dry coffee cake - Put 2 tablesppons water or milk in a large skillet; place un-iced cake on tivet and cover. Leave over low heat about 8 minutes. Do not cover iced coffeecake.
To keep sugar soft and moist - Place a slice of bread in the container and cover tightly.
Brown sugar caked and hard - Place in 200F over until the sugar is dry and crumbly; powder it in a blender or use a mortor and pestle.
To keep granulated sugar from lumping - Place a couple of salt crackers in the container and cover tightly.
Too much sugar - Add a few drops of lemon juice or vinegar.
Fish has strong fishy odor - rub fish with lemon juice and salt to prevent odor from being absorbed by other foods.
Dried out leftover cheese - Store dried out cheese (unprocessed) in freezer; frozen it crumbles easily; slice it thin without thawing to use in recipes calling for grated cheese.
Frying fat has strong flavor or odor - After frying strong flavored foods, cool fat and clarify it by adding a raw potatoe and reheat slowly. Discard potatoe; strain fat and store.
Frying fat or oil left over - Cool and strain thru cheesecloth. Store covered in refrigerator.
Baking Substitutions
1 teaspoon apple pie spice - 1/2 t. cinnamon, 1/4 t. nutmeg, 1/8 t. allspice and a dash of ground cloves or ginger.
1 teaspoon baking powder - 1/2 t. cream of tarter and 1/4 t. baking soda.
1 cup buttermilk - Sour milk by mixing 1 T. lemon juice or vinegar and enough milk to make 1 cup. Let stand 5 minutes before using or 1 cup plain yogurt.
4 oz chocolate, sweet baking - 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1/3 cup sugar and 3 T. shortening.
1 oz chocolate, simisweet - 3 T. semisweet chocolate pieces or 1 oz unsweetened chocolate plus 1 T. sugar.
1 Tablespoon cornstarch for thickening - 2 T. all purpose flour
1 cup Corn syrup - 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup water.
1 whole egg - 2 egg whites or 2 egg yolks or 1/4 cup refidgerated or frozen egg product, thawed.
1 cup cake flour - 1 cup minus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
1 cup self-rising flour - 1 cup all purpose flour plus 1 t. baking powder, 1/2 t. salt, and 1/4 t. baking soda.
1 tablespoon Fruit liqueur - 1 T. fruit juice.
1 teaspoon grated ginger - 1/4 t. ground ginger.
1 cup half-and-half or light cream - 1 T. melted butter or margarine plus enough whole milk to make 1 cup.
1 cup honey - 1 1/4 cups sugar plus 1/4 water.
8 oz mascarpone cheese - 8 oz regular cream cheese.
1 cup milk - 1/2 cup evaporated milk plus 1/2 water or 1 cup water plus 1/3 cup dry milk powder.
1 cup Molasses - 1 cup honey
1 teaspoon Pumpkin pie spice - 1/2 t. cinnamon, 1/4 t. ground ginger, 1/4 t. allspice and 1/8 t. nutmeg.
1 cup sour cream - 1 cup plain yogurt
1 cup granulated sugar - 1 cup packed brown sugar.
package dry active yeast - 1 cake compressed yeast.
And one of my favorites
Teary eyes while chopping onions - Light a candle and place it next to or on your cutting board.
Measuring shortening, lard, peanut butter or butter the easy way - IE 1/2 cup: Fill a glass measuring cup with 1/2 cup of water. Spoon the shortening, lard, peanut butter or butter into the cup until the water level reaches 1 cup. This displacement of the water will give you 1/2 cup of the required ingredient.
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« Reply #1 on: May 19th, 2006, 4:27pm » |
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To get onion or garlic smell off of your hands, rubb over anything STAINLESS and let cold water run over your hands at the same time. I usualy rubb my hands along a spoon
When chopping onion, put a teaspoon in your mouth with the curved side facing your tongue
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