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Tag Archives: kitchen tips
Tips for Cooking with Eggs
With Easter just around the corner, my thoughts, of course, turned to the Easter Bunny, and eggs! Below are a few egg-cooking tips I’ve learned through the years. I’ve also included a link for my favorite Baked Egg recipe, which … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese & Eggs, Comfort Foods, Kitchen Tips, Special Breakfasts
Tagged baked eggs, boiled eggs, cooking eggs, Cynthia Briggs, egg tips, eggs, kitchen tips
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Tip for Perfect Butter
Run a cheese plane or a vegetable peeler across cold butter for thin, quick-melting ribbons of butter; perfect for toast or bagel when the butter is too hard to spread.
Tips for Using Danish Butter Cookies
Too many Danish Butter Cookies? Freeze them to use later as cookie crumb topping, crusts, coatings, etc. You can also dip them in melted white chocolate and top with sprinkles as shown above.
Posted in Cookies, Bars & Candies, Kitchen Tips
Tagged cookies, Cynthia Briggs, danish butter cookies, kitchen tips
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Softening Brown Sugar
Got hard-as-a-brick brown sugar? Put (only) the peel from half a lemon in a covered container with hard sugar and let sit overnight–the sugar will absorb the moisture from the lemon, leaving the sugar soft.
Keep Hand Mixer Beaters from Splattering Batter
Keep hand mixer beaters from splattering batter by cutting a slit in a paper towel or a paper plate; slip the beaters through the slit and into the batter. No more splatters.
Making Berries Last Longer
Berries will last longer if they’re gently run through a salad spinner after they’re washed to remove excess water. Pictured is a suggestion to line the spinner basket with a towel before spinning berries dry to protect them from bruises … Continue reading
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Tagged berries, clearning berries, Cynthia Briggs, kitchen tips
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Enhancing Your Tortillas
Lightly toast both sides of corn or flour tortillas on a hot griddle to enhance their flavor; it makes the difference between mediocre/doughy tasting tortillas and tortillas that are especially tasty.
Posted in Kitchen Tips
Tagged corn tortilla, Cynthia Briggs, flour tortilla, kitchen tips, tortilla
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Dress up Cakes, Cupcakes or Desserts
Dress up cakes, cupcakes or desserts by putting cocoa powder or powdered sugar in a fine sieve and then gently shake it to dust tops of baked goods. A doily helps to make a pretty design but, as seen above, … Continue reading
Making Pea Soup Less Salty
If pea soup gets too salty, add a potato and cook it for a while to absorb some of the excess salt. Discard the potato before puréeing. This works with any bean soup.