Ingredients

  • Egg white: when you make merengue pour the sugar in 2 sequences, this way the merengue will not get soft shopping list
  • Pastry dough: if you want to get a softer and fluffier dough add to it a shredded apple shopping list
  • Endives: if you want to take out the bitterness, keep them 20 min in water mixed with milk shopping list
  • Cheese: if you have a cheese that is too dry, keep it covered in a wet towel ( in white wine - wow, this is expensive! - hope that cheese is worth it) for 1/2 hour in the fridge shopping list
  • Tomato paste: Add it in a stew only at the end, otherwise the meat will become dry shopping list
  • Coffee: add a piece of chocolate in it when making coffee for an outstanding taste shopping list
  • Coffee: good quality coffee has a deep color, similar to the tobacco, if it is too shiny, it means it has been covered in oil, in order to weigh more shopping list
  • Meat: if you want to know if a piece of meat has been previously frozen, check if it has a lot of blood on it, if it doesn't - it is fresh shopping list
  • Meat: dry meat - leave the stakes a few minutes in water, soda bicarbonate and white vinegar - it will tenderize it shopping list
  • Meat: do not put paprika directly on the meat before you BBQ - it will turn bitter, just add it at the end shopping list
  • Meat - Dredge meat through olive oil - it will make it softer Meat - Leave the meat a few minutes in rakia ( shlibovitz) in order to tenderize it - Yeah, I like this one! shopping list
  • Meat - another way to tenderize it is to keep it for 1/2 hour in yogurt or sourmilk shopping list

How to make it

  • Lamb - in order to take out the smell (if you don't like it) , keep the meat in hot milk. Let it in for 1 hour.
  • Chicken - if you want to have a crispy roast, keep braising it with beer (this is what I am talking about! - Grandma really knows everything)
  • Potatoes - if you want to clean easier the peel from boiled potatoes, put them quickly through cold water
  • Strawberries - Do not remove the top before washing them, only after, or all the vitamins and a lot of juices will be lost in the water
  • Onion - you will not cry when cutting the onion, if you light a candle next to it (haha - probably a scented one!)
  • Salt - if you have dropped to much salt in a stew or soup you can repair it, by adding a few slices of raw potato. You can discard it once the food is ready
  • Cauliflower - if you want to keep it white , add a little milk when you cook it
  • Whipped Cream - will harden up if you put a few drops of lemon juice
  • Milk - do not boil it more than 3 minutes - you will destroy the vitamins in it
  • Sour milk - you can obtain it by adding a little lemon juice to regular milk and leave it for a day in your refrigerator
  • Lemons - dip them quickly in boiling water - you will get more juice out of them
  • Peas - if you want to keep their green color, add a little sugar or soda bicarbonate in the water that you are boiling them in
  • Olives - will keep longer if you add a slice of lemon in the container
  • Onion smell - comes out fast from your hands if you wash them with toothpaste
  • Fish smell - comes out if you wash your hands with leftover coffee grounds
  • Omlettes - if you want to fill them up, do not fold them while on the stove, let them on the side for 2 min and fold

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    elgourmand ate it and said...
    What a really wonderful post. Thanks.
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  • virgmom1 16 years ago
    High fives to Grandma! Thanks for an enjoyable post.
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    lunasea ate it and said...
    What great advice! Grandmas rule....thank you. :) Vickie
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    brianna ate it and said...
    This is priceless. I love it. When I read through it I remembered that my Grandma used to put Bicabonate of soda in her peas. I had forgotten all about that. High 5 for a wonderful post
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    noir ate it and said...
    Thank you...this is terrific! :)
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    cholena ate it and said...
    Wow Im saving this one ........
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  • marky90 16 years ago
    Great Job Elga, Thanks to you and MOM! xo Marky
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    mystic_river1 ate it and said...
    How sweet you are! Thank you for sharing such a helpful, wise and wonderful treasure.
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    lanacountry ate it and said...
    I LOVE this ELGA..and YOU!! ^ ^ ^ ^ ^5! :)
    Lord's blessings!
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    bluewaterandsand ate it and said...
    Thank you for this info. Yes, grandmothers are always right.
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    lura ate it and said...
    Great information Elga! What a neat book. I appreciate the time it took for you to enter all this information for our use. Thanks so much for your helpful consideration. Best to you and yours :)
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  • coffeebean53 16 years ago
    Bookmarked to print out and put into my grand-daughter's recipe book. Great post!!!!
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    angelica14 ate it and said...
    Last week I threw out some parmesan that had gotten really hard. Wish I had seen this then. I bet it would improve cheese to soak it in white wine. What a great idea.
    Nd there is nothing more disappointing than opening a jar of "old" olives (I live for salt). So, I will add lemon from now on.
    These little bits of wisdom are terrific.
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    greekgirrrl ate it and said...
    awesome!
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  • 22566 16 years ago
    Knowledgeable Know How.

    Printing out and on the inside pantry door.

    Thank-you

    As Always hope you are having a great day.

    Kind Regards
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    jett2whit ate it and said...
    excellent advice!
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    magali777 ate it and said...
    Thanks Elga, I will save them to keep handy, they are very usefull tips!
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    momo_55grandma ate it and said...
    Grandma did know best {Good one} thanks high5
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    grizzlybear ate it and said...
    Love this would really like to see the book.....great Post

    Got my 5
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