Tip and tricks for cooking

Rubbing the inside of the cooking vessel with vegetable oil will also prevent noodles,spaghetti,and similar starches from boiling over.

2. Give mashed potatoes a beautiful whipped cream look by adding HOT milk to them before you start mashing.

3. To test if the consistency of your dahiwada batter is correct, drop a little batter into a cup of water. If it floats it is ready to be fried.

4. Run your ice cream scoop under hot water and it will cut through the ice cream more easily and make neat smooth scoops.

5. To ripen tomatoes-put them in a brown paper bag in a dark pantry and they will ripen over night.

6. To keep cauliflower white while cooking, add a little milk to the water to cook it.

7. Tender corn : When boiling corn, do not add salt to the water, add a little sugar, salt toughens the corn.

8. When a recipe calls for adding oil, garlic, and onions to a pan, always add garlic last. This keeps it from burning and tasting bitter.

9. To help gelatin hold its shape when unmolded, add a teaspoon of white vinegar to the recipe.

10. Turn a thoroughly heated bowl over hard butter and in no time you will get soft butter.