Cooking Tips and Tricks
- Freezing yeast dough – Here is an interesting article on freezing yeast dough.
- Stabilizing whipped cream – This is an article explaining 5 different ways to stabilize whipped cream
- Sinking cakes – This is a great explanation for why cakes can sink in the middle
Gluten Free Mixes:
- King Arthur Gluten Free Yellow Cake Mix – This mix is a tiny bit more dense than regular cakes, but it doesn’t have a funny texture or flavor at all.
- LiveGFree (an Aldi brand) Brownie mix is really good. It also makes good cookies.
- Gluten Free Flour Recipe – I haven’t actually tried this recipe, but I was told it’s a great GF flour substitute.
- Monster cookies can be gluten free too.
- Oat flour has the nutty, full flavor of regular flour. You can use it 1:1 with almost any recipe. It works for cookies, gravy, bread….
Speedy Breakfast Tips:
- Bacon – It works really well to prepare your bacon the night before. Just line a baking sheet with foil, lay out the bacon slices, cover with Saran wrap, and refrigerate until morning. Then preheat the oven (375 usually works well), remove the Saran wrap, and bake for 25-45 minutes (depending on the thickness of the cut).
Corn – Bring water to a boil, add the corn, and boil for 7 minutes. Leftover can be cut off and served again.
Drinks:
– Southern Approved Iced Tea: 1 gallon of iced tea =1 gallon water, 1 1/2 cups of sugar per gallon of water, and 5 qt-sized tea bags.
– Coffee – 1 flat Tbsp/cup plus 1 heaping Tbsp for the pot.
Quantities:
Breakfast
– 1 1/2 eggs per person
– 2 slices bacon per person
– Omelettes: 6 for 27 people
Salad (For preps, only make enough salad for the adults. Don’t worry – there will be enough. 😄)
– Coleslaw: 2 bags for 16 adults
– Caesar Salad: 6 heads of lettuce for 30 adults
– Kale Salad: 5 3.5-serving bags for 40 adults (had 2 other veggies)
– Romaine Salad: 8 heads for 32 adults
– Spinach Salad: 1 box for 24 adults
Vegetables
– Avocados: 8 large avocados will make enough guacamole for 50 people
-Beans: 4 bags for 24 adults
– Peas: 5 bags for 30 adults
– Potatoes, mashed: 30 potatoes for 40 adults
– Roasted Veggies: 4 comfortably brownable baking sheets for 32 people is perfect. (2 bags broccoli, 1 bag Brussels sprouts, 2.5lb baby potatoes, 6 large carrots.)
Meat
– Prime Rib: 27lb served 40 adults comfortably.