Helpful Tips (part 2)

Here are some helpful tips, they're not mine but I got these from other people and other sources:

• If you ran out of baking powder when you need some, use 2 level teaspoons cream of tartar to one teaspoon soda. This is the equivalent of four teaspoons of tartrate baking powder, the one you usually have in the kitchen.
• A teaspoonful of vinegar added to the water in which eggs are poached keeps the whites from spreading and makes the whites cook over the yolk.
  
• When cooking pancakes, dip the spoon in milk or water, and the batter will drop off the spoon easily.
• The whites of eggs will whip more readily if a pinch of salt is added to them. If the eggs are place in cold water for a time before being broken, they will whip easily.