Cooking and Baking from Scratch

"Cook from scratch. It is really not that hard or inconvenient. Once you do it for a while, it will seem like you've done it forever. The savings are great and this way you know what you and your loved ones are eating."

- Mandy

If you have any tips or ideas about Cooking from scratch, feel free to post them here:

http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf000612.tip.html

Cooking and Baking from Scratch

Here are some links about baking from scratch. Most cake, cookie and muffin mixes add the flour, baking powder and baking soda, (sometimes the fat or oil and spices or extracts) other than that you still need to add a lot of ingredients. So why not start from scratch? Then you know exactly what is in what you bake and you don't have to pay the addition costs for their preparation.

The Home Baking Association has lots of wonderful recipes for baking from scratch:

http://www.homebaking.org/recipes/index.html

Recipes and projects for educators (and mothers)

ttp://www.homebaking.org/foreducators/index.html

Recipe for a Master Mix

This recipes provides a start mix for muffins, pancakes and Mixes

http://il.essortment.com/bakingmixesrec_rqxh.htm

InMamasKitchen.com - Homemade Pasta

http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/RECIPES/GrainPastaBeans/HomemadePasta.html

HowStuffWorks.com - How Low Fat Baking Works

http://home.howstuffworks.com/low-fat-baking.htm

Cooking From Scratch

HillbillyHoouseWife.com's Recipes

This website has ton of recipes for making your food from scratch. Included are recipes for salad dressing, pizza dough and hundreds more. The goal of the website is "wholesome home cooking on a tight budget", it's definately work a look. They also havea nice write up on why you should cook from scratch. You can read that here:

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/mstips5.htm

Here's the recipe index:

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/recipeindex.htm