I recently found a video by How To Cook That on YouTube that described all these cooking hacks from 100 years ago. This excellent YouTuber borrowed a book from her mother, that had belonged to her great grandmother called The Maxims Of Cooking, and the contents of this book were so enthralling. There were some obvious tips like clear as you go, muddle makes muddle, which we all know, but it is good to be reminded of this. There are so many amusing baking tips shown in this video that are so old world, but they actually work, and it makes you happy someone reached back into history to save them. One tip is putting the knife you used to cut onions into some soil to clear the onion smell, it works too!

There is a hack that can stop a cake from browning on the top and the bottom by placing soil on a baking sheet and setting the cake pan on the soil and cover the top with parchment paper. The viewers are so amazed when we see that this actually works! 

There also is a very cool way to poach an egg using vinegar and stirring a whirlpool right in the middle of the boiling water, that produces a flawless result every time!

There are so many great ideas in this video, I am so glad I found it!

100-Year-Old Baking Tips