Tips for cooking
If during the cooking jam syrup becomes thick, and the fruits shrivel and not made transparent, then add to the syrup to the water.
Nectar not sugared, if during cooking to wipe the edge of the pelvis soaked in cold water with a towel.
If prolonged cooking and jam for a long time remains liquid, you can add a little lemon juice.
Pour jam on the banks comes after it cools down. otherwise, berries and fruits will rise up, will remain at the bottom of syrup and jam quickly spoil.
Jam in the open the bank is better preserved if the top 1 cm pour sugar.
The best way to make jam in aluminum cookware or utensils made of stainless steel. When cooking in a copper pot decreases the vitamin C content in the aluminum - aluminum particles fall into the jam.
Suffice it to rub garlic bowl, a dish that all acquired a pleasant garlic scent.
To boiled hard-boiled egg cut into neat thin slices, you need to moisten the knife in cold water - the yolk will not crumble.
To remove lettuce worms and insects, after washing it should immerse in salted water for 15-20 minutes, then rinse.
Broth will be transparent, if it throw a piece of ice and bring to a boil.
Broth frozen meat is always opaque. To avoid this, you need to put in a pot well washed shells of two eggs - a nice tasty broth takes the form (and then need to remove the shell).
In the chicken broth is not necessary to put either a bay leaf or celery, or onions or other spices - lost the smell of chicken.
Fish soup will be transparent if it filter through 2-3 layers of gauze or cloth soaked in hot water. Lighten the soup can be whipped egg whites.
When cooking fish to drop into cold water.
Small fish is better to cook a whole, pre-clean.
To obtain good stewed fish broth you can use the rest after the division of large fish spine and head (removing the gills and eyes).
When cooking flounder, cod and halibut to address specific smell of fish dishes can be added at the root of parsley or celery, onions, spices and pour the cucumber pickle (1 / 3 cup to 1 liter of water).
Fish, boiled in water with milk, will be more tender taste.
Frozen fish to thaw in cold salted soda (1 teaspoon per 1 liter) that lasted less than minerals. Fillet of fish is better to thaw in the air.
Bake the fish should be in a very hot oven.
To make it easier to clean the fish, you can do it in a plastic bag.
Specific smell of fish can easily be eliminated sprinkled it with diluted vinegar or lemon juice.
Fish with a strong smell to boil in water with lots of roots and spices, or add cucumber solution (0.5 cups per 1 liter of water).
To fish is not falling apart during cooking, it should boil small pieces in a shallow dish, and before the hot wait to be completely absorbed salt - it will take 10-15 minutes.
The fish can cook at a strong boil, and a couple of turns it tastier.
To eliminate the strong odor when frying fish in oil, on which it is fried, it should put peeled and sliced raw potatoes.
All canned fish immediately after the autopsy to shift into a china or glassware. Even in the refrigerator to keep them dangerous in the open tin.
Its yeast can be prepared as follows: 1 cup flour diluted in a glass of warm water and leave for 6 hours.
Then add 1 cup of beer, 1 tablespoon of sand, stir and remove to heat. Keep yeast in a tightly closed bottle.
Instead of yeast in the dough, you can add a spoonful of brandy or rum - the effect is the same as the dough will become tastier.
In order for cutting dough is not stuck to your hands, you need to grease them with vegetable oil.
Dough is faster is fine if the stick at him a few tubes of pasta.
Soft dough is easier to cut, if the cover of his parchment paper and roll a rolling pin or a bottle of warmed with warm water.
If a cake, pie or cake burnt during baking, it must be cool, then carefully scrape off the burnt place small float.
Дрожжевое тесто будет мягким, пышным и воздушным, если непосредственно перед выпечкой в него добавить остывший вареный картофель, натертый на мелкой терке (2-3 картофелины на 1 кг муки).
To determine the freshness of eggs can be bought, putting them in a jar with salt water. Fresh eggs sink to the bottom, stale - vplyvet, the average fresh egg will take an intermediate position.
Sodden few days before the egg will appear just prepared, if we leave it at 15-20 with in boiling water.
Scrambled eggs, fried on low heat, tastier one that frying on strong.
If sauerkraut or cooking soup in a saucepan, add 1.2 tablespoons of apple juice or a fruit compote of dried fruits, unpleasant smell of sauerkraut disappears.
The food while cooking will not run away from the pot, if you smear it with fat edges.
Lemons can be well maintained in the bank, which she shook at the bottom layer of salt.
To impart a particular taste can vinaigrette, adding a tablespoon of milk with a teaspoon of sugar.
The taste of mustard is much better if it add a little honey.
Mustard, diluted milk, longer retained and not dry.
Residue dried mustard can be "born again", adding a pinch of salt and a spoonful of vinegar.
If dried mushrooms to hold several hours in a little salted milk, they will be as fresh.
To milk more quickly boiled, not burnt, and persisted longer on the bottom of the pot to put a piece of sugar.
Baked pancakes can be stored wrapped in foil in the refrigerator - 2 days in the freezer - a few weeks. They did not lose the taste, but will be soft.
2-3 tablespoons of sugar added to the dough, make a crispy pancakes and painted a delicate golden color.
Pancakes will be more loose (but thicker), if the dough is first put egg yolks, and later add beaten egg whites into the froth.
Ready-made pancakes are not cool down, if the plate, where they were stacked directly from the frying pan and keep the pot with boiling water.
Peresolenny soup can be saved, adding the potatoes and / or rice to absorb salt.
If stale cheese put in sour milk, it will become soft and fresh.
Cheese does not dry up if you keep it one piece in a sealed container, where to put a piece of sugar.
Old Walnuts can restore freshness, if you omit them entirely from the skin for 5-6 days in slightly salted water.
Nuts easily cleaned from the shell, if they hold a few minutes in a hot oven.
Cream shot down in the foam faster if they add a little low-fat sour cream.
Specific smell of mutton can be removed by wetting it for 1 hour in fresh milk, and then brushing powdered garlic.
Broth get a delicious, if you cook it with milk (1: 1 with water). Hot milk to pour into the pan before serving food or directly into the plate.
To the meat was soft, before the heat treatment for several hours to put it in milk.
To stew turned out juicy, it must first fry. Turning, you must take care not to pierce the pieces with a fork - otherwise the juice will flow out.
Before the hot chops good rinse in cold water - their color becomes brighter, more quickly formed a crust, which retains the juice.
Meat is better to beat on a wooden board, soaked in cold water, as dry wood absorbs the meat juices.
When roasting meat in the oven to pour it only with hot water or broth - from the cold water, it becomes hard.
Old beef will be tender and cook quickly if you roll it in the mustard powder and leave overnight. Before cooking mustard rinse with cold water.
To grease the pan does not splash, her bottom lightly sprinkle with salt.
Old potato puree is delicious and air, if you add it whipped protein.
Puree better thinned with hot milk - from the cold it gets gray.
Boiled potatoes in their skins can be pierced with a fork in several places - it is not cracked.
Boiled potatoes will taste better if the water add 2-3 cloves of garlic, bay leaf or a bit of dill.
In the cool salt water the potatoes in their skins is not falling apart, and its taste is virtually no effect.
Potato salad should be boiled in water with a small amount of vinegar - in this case H does not black.
New potatoes can easily be purified, if briefly, first put in hot water, and then - in the cold.
To get rid of insects in the cauliflower, you need to lower it to 0.5 hours in salted and acidified water.
To cauliflower not yellowed while cooking, you need to add the water a little slice of lemon or citric acid.
Pinch of sugar, added to vegetables in their cooking, improves their flavor.
A few drops just squeezed lemon juice, add frozen vegetables and fruits fresh and juicy.
Apples are polished and cut for salad not darkened, if we put them in a few minutes in lightly salted water.
For baked apples are not cracked, they should prick in several places, but in a frying pan pour a little water.
Apples are sour cherries can not keep long in the oven - they turn into puree.
Cucumbers can be stored fresh for a long time, if you hold them down for three-quarters of the water tails down. Water changed daily.
To the bank with pickles failed to start mold, you need to put in her bag with mustard.
Vegetables salad (except the beetroot and carrot) are best boiled in salted water. Their nedovarit better than digest. For boiled vegetables easier to clean, it is necessary immediately after brewing pour over them in cold water.
In salads with meat and fish well add the marinated vegetables and fruits.
The most juicy and flavorful carrots - with long root.
If red cabbage scalded with boiling water, it will be softer.
If white cabbage has a bitter taste (immature), it should be for 2-3 minutes to load in boiling water.
To remove excess bitterness of the onion, cut it after a while I put in cold water.
Cut off half of onion did not lose their taste, if it smear margarine on the cut.
Launched bulb will remain fresh if it is to put the cut on a plate, sprinkled with salt.
If washed greens tightly wrapped in foil and put in the freezer, it will be fresh for 2-3 months. Moreover, unlike dried or salted absolutely not change its smell and taste.
You can refresh the faded greens, putting it in an hour in slightly acidified with vinegar, cold water.
Parsley and celery should be cut, rather than hack - when cutting it loses juice, aroma and taste.
To milk a long time does not turn sour, you must boil it with sugar (1 teaspoon per liter).
Oil and fatty foods can not be kept in polyethylene - they are perishable and may acquire an unpleasant odor.
Flavor rancidity can be removed by heating the oil or fat with slices of onion.
To rice has turned white, and do not stick together after cooking, you need to add in the water 0.5 tsp lemon juice.
To the ants were not included in the sugar, honey or jam, banks should grease the edge of sunflower oil.
