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-Egg substitutes work just fine in baking and even custards. Egg Beaters Brand was ranked highest in taste by America's Test Kitchen.
-Brine-ing your beans gives your beans a better flavor and they even cook more evenly. Soak beans in water with 2 tsp. salt per quart of water.
-When you make a vinaigrette add 1/4 tsp Mayo for each 1/4 of vinaigrette. You wont notice the taste but it helps emulsify the oil and vinegar so they don't separate as much!
-To get better results with your baking make sure your eggs are at room temperature. You can accomplish this easily by putting them in a bowl with warm water for a few minutes.
- If you find yourself out of brown sugar you can make it yourself! for light brown sugar add 1 Tb of molasses to 1 cup of white sugar. For dark brown sugar add 2 TB per cup of white sugar.
- You can make your own cake flour. Add 2 TB of corn starch to 7/8 cups all purpose flour = it will equal 1 cup. ( guess take away 2 table spoons of flour and replace with corn starch is the same thing.
-Powdered sugar is simply finely ground white sugar and corn starch. So if you ever find yourself out of powdered sugar and need it right then you can just blend some corn starch and white sugar in your blender and there you have it. It wont be as good but it works.
- As a general rule when using dried herbs in place of fresh half the amount called for.
-Adding a little corn starch to your pie crust does magical things.
- When replacing canned beans for dried beans you use five 8 oz canned for 1 pound dry.
-Brine-ing your beans gives your beans a better flavor and they even cook more evenly. Soak beans in water with 2 tsp. salt per quart of water.
-When you make a vinaigrette add 1/4 tsp Mayo for each 1/4 of vinaigrette. You wont notice the taste but it helps emulsify the oil and vinegar so they don't separate as much!
-To get better results with your baking make sure your eggs are at room temperature. You can accomplish this easily by putting them in a bowl with warm water for a few minutes.
- If you find yourself out of brown sugar you can make it yourself! for light brown sugar add 1 Tb of molasses to 1 cup of white sugar. For dark brown sugar add 2 TB per cup of white sugar.
- You can make your own cake flour. Add 2 TB of corn starch to 7/8 cups all purpose flour = it will equal 1 cup. ( guess take away 2 table spoons of flour and replace with corn starch is the same thing.
-Powdered sugar is simply finely ground white sugar and corn starch. So if you ever find yourself out of powdered sugar and need it right then you can just blend some corn starch and white sugar in your blender and there you have it. It wont be as good but it works.
- As a general rule when using dried herbs in place of fresh half the amount called for.
-Adding a little corn starch to your pie crust does magical things.
- When replacing canned beans for dried beans you use five 8 oz canned for 1 pound dry.
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