Helpful Suggestions For Knox Gelatine 1 Food

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Steps:

• Sprinkle gelatine over 1/4 cup coconut water in small bowl. Let stand 1 min. Meanwhile, microwave 1/4 cup of the remaining coconut water in microwaveable measuring cup on HIGH 45 sec. or until water comes to boil.
• Add boiling coconut water to gelatine; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Stir in remaining coconut water. Pour into 2 custard cups sprayed with cooking spray.
• Refrigerate 6 hours or until firm.
• Unmold each dessert in separate shallow dish. Serve topped with syrup and toasted coconut.

HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS FOR KNOX GELATINE-1

Steps:

• 1. Pour cold water in bowl and sprinkle the envelope of gelatine on top of the water, then add hot juice and stir until gelatine is dissolved. A lemon juice and salt if necessary and more sugar to sweeten. Turn into mold that has been rinsed in cold water and chill. Use as a dessert or salad, When fruit juices do not jell in making jellies, reheat juice and add gelatine that has been softened in a little cold water in the same proportion as above. --- More helpful hints: In a custard recipe calling for several eggs, one or more may be left out if 1/2 Tablespoonful cornstarch is added for each egg omitted. When using less than a full envelope of gelatine, you can always put the remainder of the gelatine to good use- for cakes icings, for whipped evaporated milk, for mayonnaise and cooked salad dressing, for frozen dishes. and in various other ways. When you wish a rich dark meat color for soup, use caramel, which is sugar browned in a frying pan until a golden brown, and then dissolved in a little water. To warm over biscuits, muffins, or rolls, sprinkle lightly with water,place pan containing them in a pan of hot water and put in oven a few minutes. Keeping lettuce: After washing it thoroughly, place in a cheesecloth bag and hang up in refrigerator. Use all the outside leaves by shredding them with a sharp knife or cut with scissors, and making them into a pretty nest for a salad. Onion juice added after a mixture is cooked gives a much better flavor than if the onion is cooked with the mixture. Extract the juice by grating onion. A pinch of baking soda added to any boiled syrup will keep it from crystallizing. A teaspoonful vinegar added to homemade syrup will keep it from candying after it stands. A teaspoonful vinegar beaten into boiled frosting when flavoring is added will keep it from being brittle or breaking when cut. If syrup goes to sugar, reheat, add a small piece of butter, and it will be useful as a soft sugar.
• 2. A few cloves added to vegetable soup will give it a delicious flavor. In placing dishes on ice, place a rubber ring from a fruit jar under the dish. Ring will adhere to both ice and dish. In boiling corned beef, add a small onion, a pinch of ginger, a few cloves and a bay leaf. This will improve the flavor of the beef. After freezing ice cream, empty the cracked ice into a feed sack. When ice has melted, nearly all the salt remains to be used again. Are you in the habit of wasting stalks of cauliflower? Save them, and and next day cut them lengthwise into 2 or 3 pieces according to the thickness. Tie in bundles and cook as asparagus; then drain and mask with a white or Hollandaise sauce. Save all the liquid from your mustard pickles and add it to salad dressing in place of vinegar and mustard. When making meat sandwiches, this liquid may be mixed with the meat. Liquid from pickled or spiced fruits- it may be used for mince pies, sauces, etc. Honey may be used to mix with nuts for sandwiches; also used as a filling for tiny baking powder biscuits.
• 3. The modern housewife(1934) today considers the plain Knox gelatine a household necessity. It is one of the most easily digested proteins, and being all gelatine(no coloring, flavoring or sugar), a package naturally goes much further and is less expensive then the jelly powder dessert (Jell-O).

HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS FOR KNOX GELATINE 2

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• 1. If this rule is followed, the under-crust will be crisp. To brown pies and tarts, use a small pastry brush and brush them with milk before putting them in the oven, and to glaze pies, brush them with the white of an egg if you wish them to be shiny brown. When baking large potatoes,in the oven, cut them in halves- it saves gas and the side cut gets a delicious crust. Leftover cooked potatoes must not be piled together as they sour quickly. Spread them out on a large dish. To hasten the cooking of vegetables, add a small pinch of baking soda to the water. In making rhubarb, cherry or any berry pie that is very juicy, try beating an egg light, and mixing in the sugar required by the fruit; add a little flour, mix thoroughly and then bake as usual. In this way excess of juice will be in the pie and not in the bottom of the oven. Try the gelatine berry pies. In cooking peas, wash the pods very thoroughly and throw them into a kettle of boiling water. When done, the pods rise to the surface and the peas stay at the bottom- they have a fine flavor when cooked in this way. Celery tops, save and dry them until crisp, then crush to a powder and mix with and equal amount of salt-good for soups and stews.Also dry the tops ,put into glass jars and use to flavor stews when celery is scarce. When using molasses and it is not as dark as desired for ginger bread or cookies, add a Tablespoonful of melted chocolate to molasses and spices, improving the flavor. --- Uses for stale cake: Cut in slices, toast and serve with fresh or canned fruit. Cut in strips and use to line molds instead of the expensive lady fingers when making a charlotte. Steam cake and serve hot with a sauce. Slice and put in a glass dish-cover with a gelatine custard mixture(Spanish Cream) and serve with or without whipped cream, whipped evaporated milk, meringue, fruit or a chocolate sauce. Use dried cake crumbs in cookies, muffins, etc. in place of part of the flour.
• 2. Stale cake and doughnut crumbs may be soaked in milk and used in place of the rye flour in brown bread. Uses for left over cooked cereals: use the following day as a dessert by molding in custard cups. Serve unmolded with fruit and cream. Or, mold cereal in a shallow baking dish, cut slices and fry in vegetable fat- serve with butter and sugar or with maple or other syrup. Left over pie dough: Cut rounds and press over the outside of muffin pans or aluminum jelly molds, bake and use for patty cases for creamed fish or peas or for a gelatine jelly or cream. Use boiled potatoes, left over for quick French fries. Always pare potatoes very thin- the most valuable part, the mineral salts, is directly under the skin. Soup making extracts the flavor only of meat and much of the food value remains. It may be used in many ways if seasonings are added to give an agreeable taste, and an egg for additional nutriment.
• 3. Uses for left over coffee: Make coffee Jelly, Coffee Spanish Cream or Coffee Ice Cream. Use in spice cake instead of sour milk or in boiled icing instead of the boiling water for a delicious mocha flavor. It may be used in custards, souffles or in fudge; it may be added to gravy before removing from the stove, resulting in a rich, dark coloring. Use instead of bluing for khaki goods and also for keeping color in ecru curtains. Left over jelly may be used for coloring icings and also adds a delicate flavor; use for a garnish on creams and puddings; or whip until light, add a few spoonfuls of whipped cream or whipped evaporated milk- chopped nuts, if desired- for a delicious sauce for puddings, ice cream or gelatine desserts. Drained juice from canned fruit can be used in making jelly(jelly refers to JellO) pour the jelly into a wet shallow pan and when firm cut in cubes or in fancy shapes with a cookie cutter. Attractive garnishes for brick ice cream may be made from the jelly.