How to Use Red Star PLATINUM Yeast Red Star® PLATINUM Superior Baking Yeast is so simple to use and can be used in any recipe calling for yeast. It is a premium instant yeast blended with dough improvers* commonly used by professional bakers that will make your dough so forgiving that you will...

Recipe Card Holder – Improvise Are you cooking/baking and need to look on the counter at the recipe? From Moxy Magazine, this easy tip for improvising a recipe card holder. Use a pants or skirt hanger instead — just hook it over a cabinet door pull and clip your recipe card into the clips used to...

How to Separate Eggs Using a Plastic Soda Bottle This is so clever and so very easy. All it takes to separate the egg whites and yolks is an empty plastic soda bottle. Watch the following videos: This is the original in Chinese And here is one in English

Cookie Tips To discourage overbrowned cookie bottoms (which can happen when an oven heats unevenly), insulate the baking sheet by placing it inside a second baking sheet of the same size. The thin layer of air between the sheets will protect the top sheet form getting too hot. To revive crisp...

Parchment Paper Tip Do you wonder how to make a piece of parchment paper lie flat on the baking sheet? Well, wonder no more! Parchment paper is often sold in rolls, so when you want to use it, it remains in a curl. When you buy a roll, take a few minutes to cut it into lengths to fit your baking...

Crème Fraîche This thick dairy product resembles sour cream, but its flavor is much less tangy and more buttery. Unlike sour cream, it has the advantage of not curdling when heated. It is available at specialty stores and many supermarkets, but it can be pricey. To make your own crème fraîche:...

Cheese Tips: Storing Cheese: Always re-wrap cheese in fresh wrapping, preferably in waxed or parchment paper, after the cheese has been opened to avoid havingthe cheese dry out or pick up other flavors. Thus,re-wrapping the cheese in paper and then inplastic wrap to create a micro-environment for...

Ingredient Exchanges at a Glance The exchange charts below are a useful tool in coverting ingredients in recipes - Dairy, Parve, Meat, and non-Kosher. Exchanges for Kosher Foods For Dairy Dishes For Pareve Dishes For Meat Dishes Butter Almond oil Canola oil + salt Coconut oil Grapeseed oil...

Time, effort, and expense go into making a cheesecake and most of us do not make this delectable dessert on a regular basis. We are sharing some tips to insure that your cheesecake baking venture is a success. Springform pans are normally used when making cheesecake as it allows easy removable of...

Butter to Olive Oil Conversion Chart Compliments of Pompeian Olive Oil