Handy Hints

 

You need to get all your ingredients at room temperature before you start.

To create self-raising flour from plain flour – for 150g/1 cup plain flour use half-teaspoon baking powder and half-teaspoon of bicarbonate soda (also known as baking soda).

Freeze left over wine for using in cooking.

If your recipe calls for the juice only of a lemon or an orange, zest the fruit before cutting and juicing. Wrap zest in waxed paper, pop it into a small container, and then into the freezer. You can use the zest next time you’ve got a recipe calling for zest. This way, you haven’t wasted any part of the fruit.

Freeze in one portion sizes, then no matter how many you are feeding you will have sufficient.

Keep ginger in the freezer and grate from frozen, it lasts for ages.

Put half a lemon with a teaspoon of salt in the fridge overnight, it’s antibacterial and will remove any odours.

To clean a granite pestle and mortar leave half a lemon and boiling water in it overnight.