Cutting Corners
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Okay, I know it's the 21st century, but what's wrong with being old fashion anyway? I guess I'm really old fashion when it comes to cooking. I don't need all the frills of the 21st century.
How do you cut corners when cooking?
I've been doing it for years. When it comes to recipes, that's the easiest because alot of times through the years, we lived out in the boonies and I didn't have the ingredients I needed, so I learned what works, and what doesn't work.
No Baking Powder in Russia?
But did you know that in Russia they never heard of baking powder? They never use it, and I can't seem to be able to bake anything without it! So that was an interesting thing to learn while I was there.
Colonial Cooking
I don't think the colonists used all these ingredients in their cooking either, however, they did love spices, which were hard to get back then. But this is why I like the old time recipes. Read what the Colonists ate for breakfast.
Different Ingredients for Cooking
Anyway, if a recipe calls for chocolate chips, you don't have to put chocolate chips in it if you don't want to. The kids are not really going to care. A cookie is a cookie.
Most of the pages on my Easy Cooking website are divided by a certain type of recipe. For instance, on the Butter Cookies page, there are all different ways and recipes for making butter cookies. Like sometimes I didn't have eggs, so I used the Butter Cookies No Eggs Recipe. Or if I was out of baking powder, I could make Easy Butter Cookies.
The point being that you can make a recipe and if you don't have all the ingredients, there is a different way of making the same thing.
Cooking for Large Families
Since there were six in our family, I found myself cooking for an army every night. Because of this I tried to simplify my cooking in anyway that I could. Out go the gourmet dishes, in come the casseroles and stews.
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