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No-Mess Baking

For no-mess baking, grease your measuring cups before pouring in honey, molasses, or corn syrup.

For sweeter sweet potatoes, choose ones with darker skins.

Tomato stains? Soak the spot in vinegar before washing.

To remove fish odors from hands, wash them in one teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in one quart of water.

Make your own brown sugar: Use a 1/2 cup of molasses per cup of sugar for dark or a 1/4 cup molasses for light.

For faster cooking, soak potatoes in saltwater before baking.

Keep a clean soft toothbrush around the kitchen to clean mushrooms, lemons, limes, and string beans.

Add breadcrumbs to scrambled eggs. It will increase the volume and add flavor.

When baking bread, set a small dish of water in the oven to help keep the crust from getting too hard or too brown.

Do not use fresh or frozen pineapple in gelatin recipes, as the gelatin will not set. (You can use canned pineapple.)