Ten Baking Tips from an old cookbook
- To see whether old yeast is still good, put it in warm water with a teaspoon of sugar and stir. If it begins to foam in 10 minutes, you can use it with your flour right away.
- For even consistency, when making pie crust. Add water with clothes sprinkler.
- Add a little salt to jello salads and desserts. It improves the flavor. Add a little sugar to vegetables while cooking. It improves the flavor. Add a banana to rhubarb pie, the flavor will resemble pineapple.
- Put cream or milk on top of two-crust pies for a nice brown pie.
- Store cake in vegetable or fruit drawer of refrigerator and it will stay fresh.
- When bread is baking, a small dish of water in the oven will help to keep the crust from getting hard.
- An apple cut in half and placed in the cake box will keep the cake fresh several days longer.
- When icing a cake, the icing will not run off if a little flour is dusted on the surface of the cake.
- To keep crisp cookies crisp, and soft cookies soft, place only one kind in a cookie jar.
- If you want to make a pecan pie, and haven’t any nuts, substitute crushed cornflakes. They will rise to the top the same as nuts and give a delicious flavor and crunchy surface.
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Sarilee Brewer check out the bottle w sprinkler. Look familiar?
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Grandmother used a Dr Pepper bottle.
Where can you get a sprinkler top nowadays?
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