Make Your Own Cooking Mixes

©By Deborah S. Tukua

www.hollycreekbooks.com

Here’s a way to save time and money in the kitchen, as well as control the types of food your family eats: pre-mixing the dry ingredients for pancakes, brownies, cakes, cookies, cornbread and other meals/desserts.

To do so, all you need to do is get a bit organized and follow these tips:

Determine how many times you’d like to prepare pancakes, waffles, cakes or brownies this month.

Set out that number of Ziploc freezer storage bags.

Reading the recipe, add all of the dry ingredients for one batch to each freezer bag.

Label the bag with the recipe name and the date.

Store in freezer, to keep the mixes fresh for months.

When its time to make pancakes or brownies, add the eggs, water, oil and other wet ingredients to a bowl along with the dry ingredients from one bag, following the recipe instructions.

Need some delicious recipes to convert into mixes? Directions for making autumn’s best Pumpkin-Banana Pancakes Mix, Pastry Mix and Instant Corn-Bread Mix are included in the book, Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom by country cook and author, Deborah Tukua.

Tags: baking, cakes, pancakes, cookies