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Grandma's cooking tips and kitchen tricks: This is how it tastes like it used to at grandmother's

2020-09-29T10:03:39.605Z


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.


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.

Also interesting:

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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