Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Almost Homemade Pumpkin Pie

Another easy but much better than the original tip - (I stumbled upon this accidentally, when I had already mixed the pumpkin with spices around 10pm one night, and THEN discovered I had no evaporated milk):

When making pumpkin pie, follow the recipe on the can of pumpkin (not the canned pumpkin pie filling - I've never tried that). Replace the evaporated milk with half milk, half sour cream. Double the cinnamon. Add FRESH grated nutmeg. It really makes a difference!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Works for Me: Cleaning Glass (coffee pots, pitchers, thermos)

My sister showed me a REALLY neat way to get the sticky condensed coffee residue off the bottom of a glass coffee pot, without any residual smell from harsher cleaning chemicals.

Into the room temperature coffee pot, throw a tablespoon or two of salt and about a dozen ice cubes. Start swirling. As the salt melts the ice it will be very easy to swirly, but yet abrasive enough to get all those little bits off.

It would also work for a glass pitcher or glass lined thermos. Works for me!