Basic Cooking Tips

Kitchen Hints And Tips From Grandma's Day

Here are some basic cooking tips that you will find useful for cooking with Grandma's old fashioned dessert recipes. Old fashioned recipes sometimes contain outdated measurement terms like gill, saltspoon, grain, making the quantities called for unclear.

And, because many of the vintage wood stoves didn't have temperature gauges, few of the old fashioned recipes specified accurate oven temperatures and cooking times. Here, you will find cooking hints and tips to help address these shortcomings.

Featured in these pages is a collection of helpful cooking tips and hints, standard cooking measures, historical baking measurements, and modern temperature conversions from wood stove oven temperatures.

You will also find helpful information on baking substitutions and some easy instructions for opening a coconut. Yes, there really is something for everyone on these pages and more is being added, so be sure to bookmark this page.

Basic Cooking And Baking Tips