The Best Hints For The Kitchen..

Too Salty-

• For soup and stew, add cut raw potatoes and discard once they have cooked and absorbed the salt.
• Another remedy for salty soup and stew is to add a teaspoon each of cider veniger and sugar.
• Or, simply add sugar.

Too Sweet-

• Add salt
• If it's a main dish or vegetable, add a teaspoon of cider vinegar

Pale Gravy-

• Colour with a few drop of Kitchen Bouquet (available at grocery stores).
• To avoid the problem in the first place, brown the flour well before adding the liquid. This also helps prevent lumpy gravy.
• A different way of browning flour is to put some flour into a custard cup and place beside meat in the oven. Once the meat is done the flour will be nice and brown, ready to make a rich, brown gravy.

Thin Gravy-

• Mix water and flour or cornstarch into a smooth paste. Add gradually, stirring constantly, and bring to a boil.
• Try instant potato flakes instead of flour.

Gravy-smooth as silk-

• Keep a jar with a mixture of equal parts of flour and cornstarch. Put 3 or 4 tablespoons of this mixture in another jar and add some water. Shake, and in a few minutes you will have a smooth paste for gravy.

Greasy gravy-

• Add a small amount of baking soda if it is quite greasy..
• See Removing the Excess Fat, Kitchen Hints.