Helpful Tips (part 1)

Some helpful tips in the kitchen:

• Always sift flour and powdered sugar before measuring. When recipe calls for flour, baking powder, soda, salt, sift all these dry ingredients together before adding to the rest of the batter.
• To measure a level spoonful, dip the spoon into the dry material, take up a heaping spoonful, and level it off with a knife or with the edge of the spoon.
• When separating the yolk from the egg white, if you drop a portion of egg yolk to the whites, moisten a cloth with cold water, touch to the yolk and it will adhere to the cloth.
• The yolk of eggs, left over when baking requires the white only, if dropped into a pan of boiling and salted water will cook and be ready for your noon salad.
• When bread os baking, a small dish of water in the oven will help to keep the crust from getting too hard.

(The photo above was taken in Camiguin Island during the Youth Summer Camp.)