Make Decorative Lattice Top & Pie Edges: {How-To & Tips. Here’s a lovely assortment of ideas showing how to make decorative tops for pies and tips for handling the pastry. There are also some good ideas for edgings added to the bottom of the page. I found them in my vintage recipe scrapbook and although they’re oldies, they are goodies! Make this pretty lattice by twisting 3/4-inch pastry strips and lining them up across top.
Place other strips diagonally, twisting them as you weave. It’s as easy as it looks to crimp this attractive edge. Here’s something dainty that’s simple in the making. Use tip of teaspoon to make this fancy decoration. When in a rush, top a cherry pie with a spiral twist. Results will be a beautiful, golden-brown edge if protected with aluminum foil for part of baking. For uniform strips, you can make yourself a cardboard guide. Here’s an easy to to weave a top. Looking for a slick trick for weaving with even spacings? Weave the strips on a cookie sheet sprinkled generously with sugar. Fluted Edge is double. Zigzag Twister. The Guy that Cooks | Who said real men don't cook?
Top 10 DIY Food Geek Projects. Common Ingredient Substitutions Article. 25 Vintage Baking Tips: Timeless Wisdom. I’ve collected these snippets of baking tips from vintage cookbooks and magazines dating from the 1940′s through the 1950′s…the Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where I organize and share all kinds of tips from the past.
Vintage Rolling Pin, Eggs & Flour Butter and sugar can be creamed easily when butter is hard by warming the sugar slightly.Light-colored molasses can be darkened to make dark gingerbread by adding a teaspoonful of melted chocolate to each cup of molasses.Cream which is hard to whip will whip quickly by adding a few drops of lemon juice.Molasses can be prevented from sticking to the measuring cup if the cup is first greased with butter or lard.Shortening can be measured exactly.