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Cooking
Cakes
Cutting and Slicing
-Before cutting fresh moist cake, run a thin blade knife under hot water and dry.Slices without crumbling.
-After the cake has been cut,keep it moist by slicing fresh bread to the size of exposed cake.Secure with toothpicks.
Sticking
-Cake won't stick to the pan if you grease beforehand with unsalted fat and dust with flour.
-Another stick-free method is to thoroughly grease a peice of clean brown paper that has been cut to fit the cake pan.
-Save your butter wrappers in the fridge. They'll come in handy for greasing your pans!
Moist Cakes
-If you add a teaspoon of vinager to the baking soda when baking a chocolate cake, you'll get the moistest cake you ever dreamed of!
-To keep fruit cakes moist during baking, place a pan of water alongside it in the oven and keep replacing the water until the cake is done.
Light Cakes
-To make cakes really light, add a teaspoon of lemon juice to the butter and sugar.
Cooling Cakes
-If you don't have a wire cooling rack, simply take a large mixing bowl and stretch some muslin or or net curtain over it. Fasten with clothes pegs and lay your cake on top!
Keep your Kitchen Spotless
Cloudy Drinking Glasses-Soak them for an hour or longer in slightly warm white vinegar.
Dishes-Deodorize dishes, pans, cutting boards or utensils with pungent odors by adding 1/4 cup of lemon juice to your dishwater.
Food Odors-Put a bowl of white vinagar on the counter for at least an hour.
Stove-To keep your stove looking like new,rub it down with a little car wax now and then.
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