Archive Category: 'Baking Tips'

• How To Test Baking Powder For Freshness: You found a can of baking powder tucked away in the back of the pantry and you aren’t sure how old it is or whether it’s still good to use in baking. Here’s a quick test for freshness: ul> Pour a teaspoonful of baking powder into a bowl or small glass. Fill the bowl with hot water to [...]
• Pick The Perfect Color: Handy Food Coloring Tool: Today’s feature is from McCormick with this handy online tool for finding & creating the perfect color you want for food coloring: McCormick’s Color Creator: The Perfect Color Is Easier Than Ever Make any occasion more fun with color! Our Color Creator shows you how to get the color you want every time. This little tool is actually [...]
• Sweetened Condensed Milk: Recipe Substitutes: The list of Handy Substitute Recipes For Baking has been updated and the sweetened condensed milk substitute recipes from that page have been moved here. Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk Substitute Recipes 3/4 cup sugar, 1/3 cup butter, 1/3 cup boiling water, 1 cup skim milk powder. Combine all ingredients in a blender and mix until all lumps [...]
• Pie Crusts & Pastry: Baking Tips: Everyone wants to make that perfect “melt-in-your-mouth” pastry that the family will brag about. Follow these simple but important rules and a light, tender pastry will result. Tips For Making Pie Crusts & Pastry Have all ingredients as cold as possible. Measure accurately. Handle mixture lightly and carefully. Use just enough water to bind mixture. Bake at correct temperature. Good Pastry has [...]
• Baking Powder Biscuits: Recipes & Tips For Success: Success in making flaky baking-powder biscuits is a matter of a few simple rules: ul> Measure dry ingredients and sift into mixing bowl. When soda is used, it is sifted with dry ingredients. Uneven distribution of leavening causes yellow or brown flecks. Cut in shortening with pastry-blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add all the liquid; stir only [...]
• Baking Secrets Of Success: Timeless Wisdom Collection: These baking tips come from a booklet published in 1937 that provides quick tips for baking success (for a variety of baked goods). he Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where we take a look back at the advice given and techniques used decades ago–many are still useful to know in today’s kitchen. Secrets [...]
• Egg Substitutes: Handy Recipe List: If you run out of eggs while baking, an egg substitute is a quick fix since chances are you have something in the pantry that you can use. You may also find need for an egg substitute if you’re baking a cake for someone with allergies or if someone is vegan. Using an egg substitute [...]
• The 8 High Spots In Bread Baking: Measuring Flour: Measure flour without sifting. Level off top of cup with straight knife or fill to degree indicated in the recipe. em>Scalding Milk: Pour required amount of milk into top part of double boiler. Set over boiling water. If double boiler is not available, use saucepan set in larger saucepan partly filled with boiling water. [...]
• Fresh Fruit Pies: Kitchen Cheat Sheet: Fresh Fruit Pies: Kitchen Cheat Sheet Fruit Quantity Sugar Flour Shortening Variations Apples 6 apples or 3 c. sliced 1/2 to 3/4 c. 2 tbsp. 1 tbsp. Add 2 to 4 tbsp. crab apple or quince jelly or 1/2 tsp. cinnamon or nutmeg Apricots (fresh) 3 c. slided 1 c. 3 tbsp. 1 tbsp. Add 1/8 tsp. nutmeg or 2 drops almond flavoring Blackberries Blueberries Elderberries Huckleberries Raspberries 3 c. 2/3 to 3/4 c. 3 tbsp. 1 tbsp. Add 2 tbsp. lemon juice to [...]
• 25 Vintage Baking Tips: Timeless Wisdom: I’ve collected these snippets of baking tips from vintage cookbooks and magazines dating from the 1940’s through the 1950’s…the Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where I organize and share all kinds of tips from the past. Vintage Baking Tips Butter and sugar can be creamed easily when butter is hard by warming the [...]
• Vintage Pie Making Tips: Timeless Wisdom: I’d be hard-pressed to name someone who could bake a pie better than my grandmother, and I’m sure it’s the same for most of you too. obody can make pies like our grandmas did with tasty fruit fillings, melt-in-your-mouth flaky pastry, pies baked “just-right”–and they whipped them up effortlessly without glossy french cookbooks or fancy kitchen [...]
• Freezing Cookies & Cookie Dough: Tip Sheet: Frozen baked or unbaked, cookies from your freezer have the same flavor and texture as freshly baked cookies. If your freezer is crowded, you’ll probably prefer to freeze unbaked cookie dough–it takes less freezer space and needs no special handling to prevent breakage. On the other hand, cookies baked before freezing are ready to eat [...]
• Baking Homemade Bread: Troubleshooting Tips: Bread Is Too Small ul> Reason Why: The oven was too hot or the dough was too cold What To Do: Check the temperature of the oven and place the pans in the oven so they are not touching to assure a good circulation of warm air. The dough should rise at room temperature (between 75° and 85° [...]
• 26 Cooking & Baking Tips: Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips for cooking and baking are from a large collection of tips I’ve gathered together from a variety of cookbooks and magazines, most are from the 1940’s through the 1960’s. Homemaking was serious business and a lot more difficult to manage in those days so every little trick was greatly appreciated. Many were provided by [...]
• How To Freeze Bread Dough: You love homemade bread but you don’t have the amount of time it takes to make. You can buy a bread maker, but if you prefer baking bread in an oven, here’s a way you can enjoy freshly baked homemade bread each and every day. It’s cheap to do and much healthier since your family isn’t [...]
• How To Shape & Decorate Holiday Breads: Shape Breads These Ways Stollen–This homey loaf starts with a big oval of dough folded over to resemble a jumbo Parker House roll. Almond Sugar Twist–Rolling dough, jelly-roll style, then winding, round and round, are the only tricks needed here. When making the coil, it’s easy to handle if you place one end of roll on cooky [...]
• Baking Gifts: Creative Container & Filler Ideas: Container Ideas Decorative Holiday Cookie Jar Baskets: Wicker, Wire or Plastic Biscuit Tins Cannisters: Glass or Tin Wide Mouth Jars Small Bucket Decorative Holiday Plate or Platter Decorative Holiday Bowl: Ceramic, Glass or Plastic Large Mug or Tea Cup Styrofoam Trays Chip Tubes (like Pringles–good for cookies) Milk Carton: Wash clean and cover with wrapping paper Repurposed Boxes (chocolates, tea, crackers, etc.): Wrap boxes in holiday paper Cellophane Bags DIY [...]
• Holiday Baking Tips: Cookie Assembly Line: It’s that time of year again when we’re baking up a storm, filling dainty trays and gift boxes with fresh homemade baked goods to give as gifts. Here are a few tips I have for making the most of your time when baking several dozen cookies at once. Cookie Assembly Line Tips Get Prepared: Before you get started, have [...]
• Baking Homemade Bread: How To Shape Loaves: Rolled Dough Method Step 1 With rolling pin, roll dough out to uniform thickness, stretching by hand to form rectangle approximately 9″ x 12″. Make certain to break down all gas bubbles in the outer edge of the dough. Step 2 From upper edge, roll dough toward you, jelly roll fashion, sealing dough with heel of hand after each [...]
• Trims For One-Crust Pies: How To: Fluted Edge of crust is double. Use your index finger or the handle of a knife to make the indentations. The thumb and index finger of your other hand are a wedge to push against to make the scallop around the knife handle. If definite points are wanted, as in the picture, rather than rounded fluting, [...]
• 10 Tips For Baking Muffins: When preparing the ingredients, first mix the wet ingredients in one bowl and the dry ingredients in another. Next make a well in the dry ingredients to hold the wet ingredients and mix everything together. Some recipes may instruct a different method of mixing, follow those directions and make sure to add ingredients in order [...]
• Environmentally Friendly Baking Tips: Today’s feature is a video giving a few ideas for helping both your power bill and the environment: Video Summary: Buy larger cookie sheets (that will fit inside your oven) rather than small ones. This will allow you to bake more cookies (bigger batches) at once. Consider purchasing recycled parchment paper, baking cups, etc. Make drop cookies rather than [...]
• Quick Tips: Baking Short Cuts: Kitchen too cool for the yeast dough? Should be 80 to 85° and no drafts. Set covered dough in cabinet (or oven) beside pan of boiling water. When water cools, re-heat. Dough sticky? So it won’t be difficult to knead without using lots of flour: After mixing, turn dough onto lightly floured canvas; cover with mixing [...]
• Tips Guide For Making Homemade Cookies: Here are a bunch of tips I’ve collected from several old cookbooks that will help you fill the family cookie jar with tasty treats. You’ll find a tip list for baking cookies plus a a selection of storage tips for your freshly baked homemade cookies. I’ve also included a Basic Refrigerator Dough Recipe at the bottom with [...]
• Handy Substitute Recipes For Baking: Cake Flour Recipe: If you’re running short on cake flour and need it now, here’s a tip for making your own: Add two level tablespoons of corn starch to a one cup measuring cup, then fill with bread flour. Sift three times then use as needed. Self Rising Flour Recipe: In a one cup measure, place [...]