It is well known: Grandma knows best.
We should be imitating the good old recipes and tips and tricks from grandma's kitchen much more often.
Grandma’s cooking skills * are incomparable and will always be fondly remembered by most of them.
What tricks did Grandma have in her kitchen?
By following these tips, you can emulate your grandma when it comes to cooking.
When you are asked to think of the best chef you know in your private sphere: Is that where your grandmother comes into your head?
As a child, she was often seen working in the kitchen, effortlessly conjuring up the most delicious dishes and baking cakes for the coffee table.
Bring
a
Sunday roast
on the table
?
No problem.
Prepare
an
impressive buttercream cake
?
Child's play.
But as much as you try to emulate it, the results are just not the same as in grandma's kitchen.
Here are a few reasons why
Grandma was just the best in the kitchen
, and what to pick up on.
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Secret revealed: You can use these tricks to prepare the perfect sauce.
Grandma's cooking tips: grow your own vegetables and fruit or shop for seasonal items
In the past it was much more natural to plant vegetables and fruit in your own garden:
potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, apples, plums
... This meant that the grandparents always knew which varieties were in
season
.
Nowadays we have lost that somewhat with the almost constant availability of all food.
But: Those who grow themselves can save a lot of money and make sure that fruits and vegetables are
unsprayed
.
You don't have your own garden?
Then at least pay attention
to the season and regionality when shopping
, this usually saves you money.
In addition, most of the healthy ingredients are then included.
Anyone can grow herbs at home on the windowsill, for example cress, basil, mint, chives.
Do it yourself:
Quinces - Make delicious jelly out of the inedible fruit.
Grandma's cooking tips: Everything made by hand
Another difference between today's kitchen work and grandma's handiwork: she still knew how to
do everything by hand
: sauces, bread, the various basic doughs for pastries and vegetable broth.
Today we make our lives a little easier by buying all of these things, but home
-made products usually taste better
.
It doesn't have to be the homemade bratwurst.
Just try making a sauce yourself or preparing a broth.
The effort is worth it!
Don't be afraid of fat: butter and lard are a part of grandma's kitchen
Diet guides like to warn against too much fat, just a tablespoon of olive oil here and there.
But even grandma knew:
fat is a flavor carrier
.
And meat fried in clarified butter becomes so much crispier, the cake with extra butter is so much more delicious.
So: don't be afraid of fat when cooking!
Also interesting:
So simple and delicious: juicy butter cake with apple and almond flakes. *
Grandma's Kitchen Tips: She knew how to improvise and swap ingredients
Forgot an ingredient when shopping and therefore throw away the whole menu?
No cream in the house, so the sauce can't work?
That didn't happen with grandma.
The magic word is to
improvise
.
Swap ingredients here and there, use a different type of vegetable instead of one and work with what's in the pantry.
Some
ingredients can be easily exchanged
- depending on what is to be cooked or baked:
butter | Oil, margarine, clarified butter |
sugar | Stevia, honey, maple syrup, agave syrup |
Baking soda | Baking soda, carbonated mineral water |
cream | sour cream, milk, sour cream, crème fraîche, yogurt |
rice | Couscous, bulgur, millet, pearl barley |
Also read:
As with grandma: How to create the perfect buttercream in two steps.
Would you like to cook a few of Grandma's classics?
Then get down to work with these tips from grandmother's kitchen.
And if you don't succeed the next time, comfort yourself: after all, grandma had many years
to perfect
her
recipes and kitchen skills
.
(mad)
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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