Basic Baking Tips

Some general baking tips:

1. For biscuits, allow five minutes to mix and stir the butter, shortening and sugar. If too long, the biscuits will not turn out right.

2. For a better-textured cake, use buttermilk instead of milk because buttermilk contains more acid than milk. If you don’t have buttermilk, you can make your own buttermilk by stirring in one tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar into one cup of milk.

3. For a lighter cake, separate the eggs and add the yolks to the butter mixture first. Then whip the egg whites separately using clean beaters until they form soft peaks. Then fold them into the cake batter.

4. Rinse measuring cup in hot water before using syrup, oil, etc. It will come out clean and not stick to cup.