LAURA LEE ALICE
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Baking Tips
Baking Tips
Pan Release
• 1 cup shortening
• ¾ cup vegetable oil (not olive oil)
• 1 cup flour
1. Mix all ingredients together; store in an airtight container in the refrigerator or cool area.
2. Use a pastry brush or fingers to coat pan.
Baking Mix
• 6 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 Tbsp baking powder (fresh)
• 2½ tsp salt
• 1 cup vegetable shortening, cut into pieces
1. Mix everything together in a food processor until the mixture resembles fine cornmeal.
2. Place in an airtight container and store in the door of your refrigerator up to 3 months.
Use this mix as you would any baking mix.
Recipe for Blueberry Muffins here.
Recipes are like stories; they can change from person to person. Everyone has their idea of how a recipe should be, even
though it may have changed from the original. We will never know the true author of the original recipe, regardless of
what some may say. That's why I go back and look through the oldest cookbooks that I can find. Sometimes it's not the
recipe in the books that I find, but the tiny pieces of handwritten recipes and newspaper articles that are stuck within
the pages. That's where the real story is, finding those simple Southern recipes. -Mac