17 Mormon Cooking Tricks That Will BLOW YOUR MIND & Make Life Easier

📖 Folks kept asking me where a body could get all of these in one place, so I wrote them down: https://bonniebowmanrecipes.com/ I pull up a chair and give you the 17 Mormon cooking tricks that my mother never wrote down. I am eighty-two, and I learned every one of them at her elbow out in the valley, back when the flour came in one sack and had to carry a houseful of children through to spring, and a woman who wasted anything at all went short in February. One of them I have done every single morning for fifty years and never once told a living soul how, the thing I feed the crock on the back of my stove, the start my mother had from her mother before her. My own grandchildren have been after me for years and could not get it out of me. Until now. These were never recipes anybody set down on paper. They were HEAT and TIME, and most of them went into the ground with the women who held them. Today I count down all 17 of them — the whole of it, in order, down to the one I would not rightly call a trick at all — so that a heavy pan of rolls and a broken cheese sauce never have to be the ordinary way of things in your kitchen the way they were in mine for years. In this one, I cover: • The three warm things that have to come before the dough — the rinsed bowl, the flour set by the stove an hour ahead, and water brought to blood warm on the inside of your wrist • The bean rule everybody has backward — salt in the water from the FIRST minute, a tablespoon to the gallon, and why a salted bean comes out softer instead of tougher • The one I got wrong for 50 years and own on camera — salting a roast on the way to the oven, and what it cost me every Sunday I did it • NEVER screw the ring down hard on a hot jar — the one turn of the wrist that has broken more seals in more cellars than any cold snap ever did • Cheese off the fire, tomatoes under twenty minutes, and the truth about soap on cast iron — the REAL reason a pan gets ruined, and it is not the soap • The crock on the back of my stove, fed the same way for fifty years — every step, in order, down to the one ingredient most people pour down the drain Tell me down in the comments which one of these your own mother or grandmother did, and who she was. And tell me where you are watching from. I read every one.