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Cooking Tips 13

When you pour honey using a teaspoon forst smear it with a little oil. This ensures that the honey doesn't stick to the spoon and you have a clear, free flow. To ripen a banana faster cover it with brown paper. If you are keeping lemon in fridge take it out 10 minutes before using and put it in hot water. This helps in squeezing out the maximum juice from the lemon.

Custard Powder

Custard   is the term used for a variety of culinary preparations based on a cooked mixture of  milk or cream and egg yolk.   Most common custards are used as desserts and typically include sugar   and vanilla or some other flavour. Custard bases may also be used for making other savoury foods.   Custards baked in pastry, custard tarts, were very popular in the Middle Ages, and are the origin of the English word 'custard': the French term ‘croustade’ originally referred to the   crust   of a tart, and is derived from the Italian word crostata, and ultimately the Latin   crustāre. Custard powder was created by a Birmingham chemist named Bird in 1837. His wife was allergic to eggs and he wanted to create a custard powder that did not have egg yolk. The original custard powder contained cornstarch, salt, vanilla flavouring and annato coloring, and was cooked with milk to make pudding. Custard powder with the same ingredients is still av...

Whipping Cream

Whipped cream is cream that has been beaten by a mixer, whisk or fork until it becomes light and fluffy. It is often sweetened and sometimes flavoured with vanilla, coffee, chocolate, orange or any others of the consumer’s choice. Whipped cream may also be made in what is called a whipping siphon, typically using nitrous oxide as the gas. Imitations of whipped cream, often sold under the name whipping cream, are commercially available. They include non dairy whipping cream, whipping creams with milk content and whipping creams which have to be added to milk. The last one has the highest shelf life. The commercially available whipped cream alternatives are used for various reasons: - To exclude diary ingredients for milk allergies or for vegan diets or religious reasons. - For convenience and to provide extended shelf life. - To reduce price - unless it is a premium brand, of course. Whipping cream normally contains some mixture of vegetable oil, sweeteners, fl...

Date Season

Dates are very good for health. Here are some benefits of eating dates: According to the American Heart Association eating 100g of date daily will increase your body's resistance. Ideally have it on an empty stomach. If you consumer date syrup daily it reduces chance of heart attack by 40%. If you eat dates kept in water for a few hours it will remove constipation. Dates reduces problems of the small intestine. For the health of your eyes eat one date daily.

Caramel Pudding

Caramel Pudding or Creme Caramel is a custard dessert with a layer of soft caramel sauce on top which is very popular throughout the world. Delicious Dessert Ingredients: Bakers Caramel Pudding Mix Milk Preparation: Use the caramel topping to coat the base of half litre mould or four small moulds.  Empty the Bakers Caramel Pudding Mix into a saucepan and blend it with half litre milk.  Bring to boiling point and cook for 1 minute stirring constantly. Cool for 5 minutes and pour gently into the four small moulds previously prepared.  Refrigerate for 2-3 hours, unmould and serve.

Pudding

The word pudding has different connotations in different countries. While in the UK it is a dairy or starch based dessert in the US a pudding is a cooked sweet dish made from milk, sugar and flavouring, usually eaten cold and served after the main course of a meal. In India generally the US definition holds good and puddings are sweet, milk based and has the consistency of custard.  Bakers Pudding Mix comes in six flavours. Strawberry, Chocolate, Pineapple, Vanilla, Mango and Pista.    Yummy Strawberry Pudding Ingredients: Bakers Strawberry Pudding Mix Powder Milk Preparation: Take 100ml of milk and keep it for boiling.  Once the milk starts boiling, empty the contents of the Bakers Strawberry Pudding Mix Powder packet into it and stir it well until it completely dissolves. Turn off your gas and allow the mixture to cool for 10 minutes and then transfer it into moulds.  Refrigerate it to 2-3 hours until set. Unmould and serve. ...

China Grass

Come Ramzan time and one of the fastest moving products of Bakers is Plain China Grass. China Grass was discovered around 1658 in Japan by an innkeeper who found that some surplus seaweed soup that was discarded had jelled after a night's freezing. It was also called agar-agar, the Malay/Indonesian name for red algae from which the jelly is produced. It is used as a thickener for soups, in fruit preserves and other desserts. Awesome Dessert! Ingredients: Milk - 900 ml Bakers Plain China Grass  Water - 100 ml Sugar  Bakers 20 ml Essence  Finely sliced fruits Bakers Food Colours Cherry Preparation: Open the Bakers Plain China Grass pack and pour the required contents(10g) into a pan. Clean the China Grass with water.  Mix it with 100ml of water and boil till it melts. Boil 900 ml of milk separately. Mix these together thoroughly. Pour the preparation in moulds or plates adding sugar, fruits, flavour and colours to your taste.  Ref...

Cooking Tips 12

Here are some tips to when you are planning to store things: When you are storing tamarind paste if you apply a mix of salt and coconut oil to the paste it will stay longer without going bad. Once your cooking is done if there is excess of egg white or yellow you can store it in your fridge inside a screw cap bottle. For egg white it will be even better if you pour a little water over it. Ideally use eggs placed in fridge for cooking only after it achieves room temperature.

Cooking Tips 11

Today's blog post is dedicated to tips when cooking food of the non veg. variety To remove the bad smell from fish place it in any one of vinegar, tamarind water, buttermilk or lime juice for five minutes. Then rinse out with pure water and use for cooking. When cooking meat don't add salt at the beginning but when it is half baked. This will improve the taste a lot. Add a small piece of raw papaya when cooking mutton. This will speed up the process.

Oats Recipe 3

Oats Puttu Ingredients: Bakers White Oats - 1 cup Salt - to taste Water - 3-4 tablespoon Coconut Scraped - 1/2 cup Plantain sliced into small pieces - 1/2 cup Preparation: 1. Take the Bakers White Oats, add required salt and mix well. 2. Sprinkle warm water on oats to wet it lightly - just enough for steaming - and mix well. If you like coconut add grated coconut to the wet oats as well as the sliced plantain. 3. Fill a third of the `Puttu Kudam', the pot to make Puttu, with water and boil. 4. Fill the Puttu Kutti (cylindrical vessel) in a layered manner. First put shredded coconut, then plantain and the wet oats followed again by shredded coconut. 5. Place the filled Puttu Kutti on the Kudam and leave it until steam passes through the lid of the Puttu Kutti. 6. Once the steam is seen, put the flame in sim for a couple of minutes before  switching the gas off and remove the Kutti from the Kudam. Open the lid and push the oats Puttu out of the Puttu ...