Cornstarch may not be the most exciting ingredient, but it's utterly essential in so many recipes — from thickening stir-fries to keeping a cheesecake creamy and baking up a fruit pie. So there’s ...

Bakers know that eggs play a crucial role in baking. Eggs serve as a binder to hold wet and dry ingredients together and sometimes act as a leavening agent in cookies, cakes, and bread to help add ...

All-purpose flour, cake flour, arrowroot flour, and tapioca starch serve as excellent thickeners. Tapioca starch, wheat flour, and ground flaxseed are ideal substitutes for baking. When frying, the ...

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Photo by Travis Rainey, Food Styling by Micah Marie Morton You might not reach for cornstarch every week, but the pantry staple is absolutely essential to a well-stocked kitchen. Most of us have a bag ...

Sometimes, we are so habituated to using an ingredient for a specific purpose that we don't realise its full potential. We often don't even know about the different ways in which we can use it around ...