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Casseroles
Setting up A Recipe File
A recipe file is a must for every new kitchen, and especially for a young lady who is setting up her kitchen for the first time.
Whether a newlywed or a young girl in her first apartment, they will appreciate this as a housewarming gift. A mother-in-law can make sure her son has all of his favorite foods prepared like at home; this may keep him out of your kitchen for a while too!
There are many ways to set up a recipe file, an index card or notebooks are two ideas. Another great idea is one of the recipe files you can purchase through the internet, the kind that sends out a new set of cards each month.
An index card file is one common way, and can be set up either alphabetically or by topic, (casseroles, desserts, breads etc.). This is up to your discretion, but a topic is usually the easiest for her if she is unfamiliar with cooking!
Be sure to provide plenty of extra index cards, they can be color coded for the favorite recipes or plain white cards; this again is up to you.
A notebook is the most common way to set up a recipe file, and leaves plenty of room to add recipes as she learns more about cooking. Pages can be added from magazines too, if she happens to find something she would like to try in a magazine.
You can include a category on meals, which could include cards with entire meals, on them, with the individual receipts listed separately.
Another category could include basic cooking facts, measurements, cooking times, kitchen tips are always helpful.
I remember one of the things that I didnt know was how long to cook a turkey, now they just have the little pop up to let you know, but in my time they didnt have those!
There are so many little hints you can give someone, to you they are standard, to her they may make the difference between a great meal, and a total disaster!
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The History of the Fry Pan
The ancient Mesopotamians used copper frying pans; they were also available in Greek and Roman kitchens.
To the Greeks they were know as Teganon and the Romans called them patella, patella is used in its modern form in Spanish and is translated as paella and in Italian as padella.
Regardless of the name, they are all frying pans! Frying pans were originally deep like modern sauce pans, in North America they are also referred to as skillets.
In England and America fry pans with legs were commonly called spiders, and were used for open hearth cooking.
Little change was made in the fry pan for many years, they had broad shallow bodies and long handles to keep the cooks hand from being burned by the fire.
The first use of the word fry pan was in 1382 when it was used in the translation of the Vulgate Bible by John Wycliffe, other than that, the term fry pan is infrequently used prior to the 1950s.
Frying pans were typically made of cast iron, and even though cast iron is still in use, mostly for outdoor cooking, most pans today are made of aluminum or stainless steel.
Often frying pans are coated with Teflon for a non-stick surface; this does not apply to cast iron, which develops a non stick surface when it is seasoned.
The largest fry pan in the world was created by Mumford Sheet Metal Works in 1950 for the Delmarva Chicken Festival; they fried over one hundred tons of chicken in it before it was retired in 1998.
It measures 10 feet in diameter, which is 4 inches bigger than the previous 9.6 ft Washington fry pan built in 1941 for the Washington Clam Festival.
Considered a luxury because of the high cost of electricity at the time, frying pans were one of the first items to be electrified.
In 1898 Britain an element fitted below the pan, with the socket at the end of a wooden handle. They never gained popularity even when electricity became a normal part of everyday life. |
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Organizing Your Pantry
When I say pantry, I am referring not only to the shelves of food that you have but also the foods in your freezer and long lasting refrigerator items.
If you dont organize properly, you could end up forgetting that you have something and buy it again.
When organizing your dry and canned foods, put like items together, fruits with fruits, vegetables with vegetables and baking goods with baking goods.
It may seem silly, but it saves a lot of time later when you are looking for something specific.
Put all of your plastic wrapped foods, such as different kinds of beans and pastas in the same area, this could also include coconut, brown sugar etc.
Part of the reason for this is that in most instances they lie flat, and can easily be stacked on top of one another.
When wrapping foods for freezing, make sure they have at least one flat side, this will make it easier to store.
Use a one-inch piece of masking tape and write what the item is and the date it was frozen, attach this to the end of the item that will be towards the door of the freezer.
Designate a specific area of the freezer for certain foods; again, keep like foods together, pork, chicken, beef and hot dogs would all go in the area for meats.
If items are small, they can be put into a large plastic freezer bag with other smaller items that are alike, this makes things easier to find and keeps all the little packages from slipping to the back of the freezer.
Vegetables and fruits could go in one area; again they are in packages and are fairly easy to stack.
In the refrigerator, designate areas just like the freezer, the taller areas for drinks, and all the condiments together, the sandwich spreads, including mustard and catsup together.
Try to put the items that are most often used in the front, so you dont have to dig each time you want to find something.
By following this simple organizational plan for your pantry you will be able to minimize the possibility of duplicating items that have become lost, and save time and money when preparing food, creating your menu and while shopping.
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