Check Out These 23 Great Cooking Tips

1. Never beat egg whites in an aluminum pan.  This will darken them.
2. To prevent cakes from sticking, sprinkle the cake pan with equal parts flour & sugar.
3. To prevent cakes from burning, sprinkle salt in the oven under the cake pan.
4. Take the cake from the oven, place it for a very short time (seconds) on a cloth wrung out of cold water.  Then it will turn out easily without sticking to the pan.
5. If a recipe calls for melted butter.  Measure after melted, not before.
6. Always sift flour and powdered sugar before measuring.  All dry ingredients included in the recipe should be sifted together before adding to the rest of the batter.
7. Softening butter in the microwave always turns out soupy on me.  That's why I love this tip. Heat a small bowl with boiling water or the microwave.  Let stand a minute.  As soon as you empty the water, put the hot bowl upside down over the butter.  In just a few minutes the butter will be perfectly softened.
8. A funnel works great when separating the egg white from the yoke.
9. If some of the yolk ends up in your egg white, moisten a cloth with cold water, touch the yolk and it will adhere to the cloth.
10. Slightly heat an orange for easy peeling and to get the skin off in one piece.
11. Heat lemons well before using and there will be twice the quantity of juice.
12. When cooking pancakes dip the spoon in milk or water and the batter will drop off the spoon easily.
13. Before scraping new potatoes, soak them for half an hour in cold water that has been salted This will make the skins peel off easily.
14. To bake potatoes quickly, boil them in salted water for ten minutes, then put them into the oven.
15. To help rid the house of cooking odors, put a little vinegar in an open saucepan on the stove.
16. Peel onions under water and they will not irritate the eyes.
17. To make meat tender, put in  strong vinegar water for a few minutes.
18. When making soup remember this; soup boiled is soup spoiled.  Cook soup gently and evenly.
19. All seasonings should be added very gradually to soup, or the flavor may be too strong.
20. What can you do to correct over salted soup?  You can add a teaspoonful of sugar or a few small pieces of new turnip will work too, just simmer a little longer.  This will neutralize the salt flavor.
21. Grate a raw potato and add it to your soup when you put too much salt in it.  The potato absorbs the salt. 
22. Pick one of these three remedies not all three!  You know someone will try it.
23. A little finely grated cheese added to thin soup improves the taste immensely.