Tips, tricks & tools
Cooking from scratch is easier when you have a few helpful tips and simple kitchen basics up your sleeve. From clever cooking shortcuts to homemade pantry staples, these recipes and guides are designed to make time in the kitchen easier and more enjoyable.
Whether you're learning a new kitchen skill, looking for simple ingredient substitutes or wanting to make more foods from scratch, these practical tips and recipes will help you cook with confidence.
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How To Make Self-Raising Flour
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How To Make Cinnamon Sugar
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How To Make Icing Sugar
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How To Make Yoghurt At Home From Milk
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How to grease and line a round cake tin
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How to make brown sugar
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How to juice lemon without cutting it
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What to do with tinned tomato
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Living within our means
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Four rules for meal planning success
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Once a month shopping
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How to remove labels from glass jars
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How To Sterilize Jars For Jam (the easy way)
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Thai yellow curry paste
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How to cook rice on the stove
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How to make buttercream icing
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How to make vanilla butter at home (simple & quick recipe)
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Easy Madeira Loaf Cakes With Lemon Icing
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How to make sourdough breadcrumbs
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Homemade Vanilla Extract
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Homemade tomato pasta sauce
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Lemon tea - for good health
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Ironing board chicken
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Lamb ragu in the Breville Flavour Maker slow cooker
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Two-at-a-time Slow Cooking and Beef Creation
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Simple Substitutes
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How to create a capsule pantry
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7 Tips to save money on fresh produce
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Glass jars in the kitchen
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Hole-in-one Golf Cake
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How to host a baby shower (or any other girly party)
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9 tips to get kids to eat dinner
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How to grease a baking tin quickly with no mess
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How to swap from packet mixes to homemade baking
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Mess free icing with a piping bag
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Our delicious wedding food - thank you Spoon Fed Catering!
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How to shuck corn in less than 10 seconds
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How to get rid of tea and coffee stains on cups
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Monkey jungle cake toppers
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Recipe for 100 vanilla cupcakes (+ 10 tips)
