Underdone hard-cooked eggs and be cooked in a skillet with butter until cooked through. Great hot or cold and mixed in salads.
When using a sugar-based sauce when barbecuing, skip marinade and baste just before meat is done to avoid a bitter and blackened taste.
When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead and there won't be any white mess on the outside of the cake.
Got overripe bananas? They're PERFECT for banana breads and muffins! Don't throw them away - mash them up and store in baggies in the freezer, in one cup portions. Then, when you want to bake with perfectly ripe bananas, you're all set! (NOTE - add a shake or two of lemon juice when you mash the bananas to keep them from going too brown.)
Make Bananas ripen more quickly!
If your bananas aren't ripe, try adding an apple and a bunch of bananas to a brown paper bag and sealing for a couple of days. The apple will help ripen the bananas.
When your celery is starting to look a bit droopy, simply cut off the root end, and stand all of the stalks together in a large glass or mug of water, and store in the fridge. After about a day, you'll be shocked! Your celery will have absorbed some of the water and will be delicious and crunchy again.
Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks.
Make sure that your cornstarch is fresh. Test by combining a tablespoon of vinegar and corn starch together, if it bubbles, it is still fresh.
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