Interesting Cooking Hints, Tips and Replacements
Did You Know You Make Coffee from Acorns?
Does your recipe call for 1 tablespoon cornstarch for thickening and you have none? Well, just use 2 tablespoons of plain flour, it will do the job.
If you need 1 whole egg for cookies, you can use 2 egg yolks plus 1 tablespoon of water. If you are making custard, leave out the water. Okay, why you will have 2 egg yolks when you don't have 1 whole egg baffles me, but Gramma said it, so here it is!
If all you have is fresh whole milk and you need buttermilk, just add 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar to 1 teaspoon milk.
If you need sweet milk and all you have is buttermilk...add ½ teaspoon of baking soda to your cup of milk. If you are adding this to a recipe that calls for baking powder, reduce the baking powder by 2 teaspoons.
Need 1 square of unsweetened chocolate? Add ½ teaspoon of shortening to 3 tablespoons of cocoa.
If you find your recipe tastes too salty, add a pinch or two of brown sugar. The sugar will overcome the salt without making your food taste sweet.
Still use your oven? Want to reheat a baked potato? Dip it in cold water, wrap in foil and stick it in the oven at 350 for about 10 minutes. If you boil a potato, whole, for about 5 minutes before you bake them, it will take 20 minutes off the baking time.
Old baking soda can ruin a recipe. How do you test to see if it is still good? Put 1 teaspoon into a cup of hot water. If there are a lot of bubbles it is still good. If there are no bubbles throw it away.
Sprinkle a few drops of vinegar in the water and your poached eggs will stay together better.
Substitution for Coffee (family recipe 1896)
Use ripe acorns, washing them very good in the shell. Dry the nuts off very well and parch then until they pop open. Remove the shell and roast in a tiny bit of bacon grease. Cool and grind. This will make a splendid cup of coffee! (Okay...didn't test this one, but thought it was cool!)
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4 Comments
Post a CommentAwesome tips! I wonder if the acorn substitution gives you a kick like the caffeine in coffee..
The substitution for coffee recipe is very interesting! Now If I could only figure out how to perfectly produce my grandma's old recipes where she used "a pinch of this and a pinch of that"!
Great tips and nice article...good job
Great tips! Oh and for the egg yolks...many holiday recipes call for egg whites, so if you've been saving the egg yolks and are now out of whole eggs? Viola..grandma to the rescue. LOL...only thing I can figure out. Great article. Thanks. :-)