Tips: Cooking and Food Prep Tips

• The top half of a double boiler works great for reheating leftover mashed potatoes. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• You can make leafy vegetables crispy again by cutting off the stem, separating the stalks and adding them to a bowl of cold water in which you've mixes 3/4 cup sugar. Soak for 4 to 5 hours, drain well and refrigerate. Jerri from Abilene ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Keep pancake batter from sticking to spatulas, especially plastic ones, by first spraying with Pam or other cooking sprays. Mary McLuckie, Redding, CA ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Make your own superfine sugar (especially handy for decorating cookies) by whirling granulated sugar in a blender or clean spice/coffee grinder. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Here's a fabulous wine tip: If you don't have time to cool your white or red wines before serving, add 2-3 frozen grapes in your glass. White grapes for white wine and red grapes for red wine. It will cool your wine and you will have a treat at the bottom of the glass. Mariann Nichols, Fort Worth, TX ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• During the warm weather months people take one of those igloo thermos/jugs to work with ice tea or Gatorade in it. To keep from diluting the beverage, make ice cubes out of your drink then pop out the cubes and refill the tray for the next day. The ice cubes take most of the day to completely thaw, keeping the drink cold but not watered down. Jan from Alabama ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Before placing double crusted pies in the oven, loosely wrap aluminum foil around pie crust edges. This will help the edges from browning too quickly. Remember to remove the aluminum about 10 minutes before pies are ready to come out of the oven so the crust is properly browned. Mary McLuckie, Redding, CA ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• If you're making a recipe that calls for ground nuts, grinding them with a little sugar from the recipe will keep them from becoming too sticky and oily. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• A batter made with baking soda should be put into the oven as soon as possible after baking as the leavening actioning starts to take effect immediately upon contact with liquids. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• When stiffly beaten, egg whites will expand to approximately 6 times their unwhipped volume. But they will not whip up if even a speck of yolk is included or if the dishes or utensils used for whipping have any oil or fat on them. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

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