PSA: I finally tried my aunt's 'secret' cornbread recipe after thinking it was just hype for a decade.

Used her exact method of preheating the cast iron with bacon grease and it came out perfectly crisp, not greasy at all. Anyone have other old school tricks like that for baking?

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james9955d ago

Grandma always swore by putting a pan of water on the rack below your pie to keep the crust from getting too hard.

murray.gray5d ago

My aunt used to put a brick in the oven while baking bread. Said it helped somehow, but she was also a little strange.