Helpful Tips

• When melting chocolate , place chocolate chips or squares in a small saucepan dish and set in a larger pan filled with 1 inch of boiling water. Stir the chocolate until it melts. Be sure no water or steam gets into the chocolate.
• Sliced celery or baki g soda when added to beans as they cook may aid digestion.
• A leaf of lettuce, when added to the top of a pot of soup can absorb some of the grease.
• Nuts and seeds keep fresh lo ger in the freezer.
• Leafy greens spoil more quickly when stored with seedy vegetables like tomatoes and cucumber.
• Potatoes will more like,y turn bad when stored with onions.
• Carrots become bitter when stored with apples.
• To keep your salt shaker from clogging , add a few grains of rice.
• Keep a slice of bread on your brown sugar to keep it from hardening.
• If soup or stew is too salty add a litter cider vinegar and sugar.
• To prevent boil-overs add a tbsp of cooking oi to water.
• For most kitchen clean-ups use equal parts of ammonia & water in a spray bottle. It is the best and most economical bet.