[Sca-cooks] kitchen tips

[Huette von Ahrens]

I use a tomato slicer for my eggs, mushrooms and strawberries.  It is bigger than all the other slicers [mine is 3" x 5" not counting the handle] and I can slice several eggs, and three or four mushrooms or strawberries all at the same time.

Huette


--- On Wed, 8/20/08, ranvaig at columbus.rr.com <ranvaig at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> From: ranvaig at columbus.rr.com <ranvaig at columbus.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] kitchen tips
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 2:33 PM
> >Those thingies that you can buy to "Slice
> eggs" work beautifully on
> >mushrooms and strawberries too.
> 
> My favorite way to slice strawberries is a pastry blender,
> the type with flat blades, not wires. They are sharp enough
> to cut the berries, but wont cut your fingers.   Cut off the
> leaves and push one after another thru the blades. .  My mom
> used to put up 30 lbs of strawberries or more each spring,
> 
> http://www.kitchen-classics.com/_borders/pastryblend.jpg  
> Like this one
> 
> Ranvaig
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