Kitchen Tip ~ Cornmeal Shaker ~ Baking Easier

 

The temperature here plummeted again to -15°F and below.  The wind is so bad, you can hear it inside the house.  The wind is causing drifting across the already plowed roadways now.  It looks like we'll be sub zero for another week, before it very slightly warms up.  Meanwhile I still get that ice cold fresh air every day one way or another.  The chickens are not laying eggs every day, but we are still getting them thankfully.

You'd think I'd have enough "snowed in" time to read a dozen books, but that's not the case ha ha!  It seems I can find all sorts of things that need done around here, leaving me very little reading time.  Phooey!  Positive Petunia here, has gotten quite a bit organized and back in order, but the deep cleaning continues.  I am thankful for the time to get it done however.  No one wants to do "inside" work in the spring/summer and fall.  Unless it's a rainy day of course.

I have made tedious notes to get another recipe (fruit cake for one) post up soon.  I'm going thru a lot of sticky notes lately.  I may need to restock those soon (insert big chuckle).

A good cook may already use this tip, but it never occurred to me, until I was rooting around a drawer and found this unused shaker.  A Tupperware dealer gifted it to me many years ago.  I think there is another one somewhere around here too.    The holes in the shaker part are a bit big for salt and pepper (say for a camper), but perfect size for cornmeal.

I was making homemade biscuits (new recipe), and needed to "sprinkle" cornmeal onto the baking dish.  I also sprinkle cornmeal when I make homemade English muffins and other items as well.

I decided to wash this little shaker up, and fill it with organic cornmeal for my "shaker" now.  One more item out of a drawer and being used, and baking just got better (easier). 

Kitchen Tip ~ Cornmeal Shaker ~ Baking Easier  ©  January 2026 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart