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December
Advices in the kitchen – part I
- cookies can be kept for a long time in a box in a freezer.
- remaining cake can be stored in a freezer in a hermetically sealed box, not to catch the smell of other foods.
- champagne left can be consumed after a few days if you add a little white or red wine.
- If the aspic strengthens too quickly, add 2 tablespoons water and put on fire again.
- for the boiling jam to be more dense, pour it warm in jars and close the next day.
- ingredients for a leaven dough should be at room temperature as the dough to grow faster and more.
- orange stung with cloves can be used as a natural air freshners, even in cabinets.
- if the cabbage leaves are to thick, boil them with hot water.
- cream in recipes can be replaced with milk and butter (for example, for 250 grams of cream put 220 ml. milk and 3 tablespoons of butter).
- for milk not to burn, put a spoon in the vessel in which you boil.
- To get rid of the taste of artificial milk powder, put a drop of salt when you prepare.
- If you juice fresh vegetables, do not thrown pulp. Keep it in the refrigerator and when you have a larger quantity you can prepare a soup and add only an onion and water.
- a dry prune boiled in a glass of wine with a piece of sugar cubic replaces Madeira wine in recipes.
- smell of garlic and over the hands goes away if you rub your hands with lemon.
- Mayonnaise can be made without eggs, with condensed milk (no sugar) and oil.
- A scoop of hot water when put in mayonnaise when almost ready makes it not to lose it’s color.
- The white from eggs can be made foam easily be addeing a little salt.
- Dried Vegetables (beans, peas) are put to boil with cold water. Salt is added when vegetables are almost cooked. Otherwise, they remain strong.
- If food or soup is too salty, add a few slices of raw potato (which you take out before you serve).
- the soften of gelatine for aspic is made in cold water.
- for rice beans to remain whole in the food, do not mix with a spoon but move the whole vessel.
- eggplants must be prepared with a big fire. A small fire makes them taste bitter.
- potatoes that to keep for winter will not gain roots if in the box or bag in which you keep them you put some apples.
- donuts will be fluffy and less oily if at the end of kneading the dough you add a spoon of vinegar.
- bananas in fruit salad will not darken if, immediately after they were cut you sprinkle them with lemon juice and with a little sugar.
- grits (boiled corn) will be more tasty if in the boiling water you add a small cup of milk and a spoon of sugar.
- chocolate topping for cakes will not brake when you cut the cake if for 3 pieces of chocolate you add a whole egg, mix everything well and stretch the topping immediately.
