#scratch cooking

[homemakinghippie]

Homemade Hot Cocoa

This is the recipe my great grandma made and taught my grandma, who taught my mom and me. Every time we visited my grandparents or great grandma this cocoa was made for breakfast.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of sugar

1/4 cup of cocoa powder

Dash of salt

1/3 cup hot water

4-6 cups milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon burned sugar flavoring (optional)

Marshmallows

Directions:

In a large pot combine sugar, cocoa powder, salt and hot water. Mix until a paste forms.

Heat on low heat until the paste becomes a syrup, stirring often.

Slowly stir in milk and flavorings and continue to heat until desired temperature. DO NOT SCALD.

Add marshmallows and serve.

Notes:

I don't buy burned sugar flavoring, instead I heat the cocoa and sugar until it's sticky before adding water. This will cause the sugar to crystalize a bit when you add the water (even if it's boiling). Just keep stirring. Once you have a good syrup, add the milk as directed and keep stirring in any bits that may have stuck to the bottom or sides.

Just the sugar, cocoa powder, salt, and water makes homemade chocolate syrup! You can scale up the recipe if you'd like to keep some homemade chocolate syrup around for chocolate milk, ice cream, coffee, whatever you use it for.

If you have leftover, this makes the BEST chocolate milk I've ever had.

Feel free to customize if you like caramel, or mint, or any other kind of cocoa.

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Made myself a pretty little salad for lunch today 💚 it’s sort of like a poke bowl but mostly veggie

[callmemrscarter]

My husband had a bite of my cooking tonight and said “them hands gettin’ real dangerous in the kitchen, girl!”

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Making chicken soup again. A couple adjustments but HEY!!! It came out good the first time, hopefully it’s even BETTER this time 😂😋

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[scubakite]

I attempted to make crepes.

Overall, it was successful, though the first couple were.... not successful. Practice makes perfect, I just need practice.

It's filled with strawberries, raspberries, and whipcream.

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I make a pretty pie if I do say so myself.

[homemakinghippie]

Baking Substitutions

Baking Powder: You can replace one teaspoon of baking powder with 1/2 teaspoon baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar. This is essentially what baking powder is made of. You can bulk prepare it and add a bit of cornstarch to keep it from clumping. Alternatively, if you don't have cream of tartar, you could also use one teaspoon of baking soda and two teaspoons of either vinegar or lemon juice.

Baking Soda: This one isn't as easy to substitute in my opinion. You can use things like baker's ammonia or potassium bicarbonate, but here in the US at least, I don't think your typical grocery store carries those. Depending on what you're making you can use self rising flour (this already has baking soda in it), egg whites, or club soda. I suggest checking for replacements that work specifically for what you're making.

Buttermilk: There are lots of things you can use to replace buttermilk. Kefir is the closest option to buttermilk you have. You can use it cup for cup. You can also use yogurt or sour cream and milk at about a 1:3 ratio cup for cup to replace buttermilk. The most popular suggestion I see (and what I use personally) is vinegar or lemon juice and milk. Just add one tablespoon of your choice of lemon juice or vinegar to one cup of milk and let it sit for a few minutes to sour. You may see small clumps with this method and that's okay.

Sugar: If you happen to be out of granulated sugar, but still have powdered sugar, you can just use powdered sugar instead. If you need powdered sugar, but only have granulated sugar, put your granulated sugar through a blender! In my experience it doesn't get quite as fine as powdered sugar, so if you're trying to make something like macarons it may not work.

Brown sugar: Just like powdered sugar, brown sugar starts as plain granulated sugar. All you have to do is add molasses! Start with one cup of granulated sugar and add one tablespoon until you get the the darkness you desire.

[gargelyfloof118]

It's a good day for a mug full of chicken noodle.

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Ladles and Jelly-spoons

The Hallmark Channel's first attempt at an off-holiday film concerns the start of soup season, in which an uptight Campbell's executive who HATES home cooking ends up falling for the owner of a local diner who makes everything from scratch.

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