Bonus Post! Measuring Sticky Ingredients Hack

 Bonus Post!

Conventional wisdom says that when you have to measure a sticky ingredient like honey or molasses, spray the appropriate measuring cup with cooking spray, then pour in the sticky ingredient. The cooking spray will help keep the ingredient from sticking. For the most part, this works. However, you still have to clean the cooking spray and residual sticky ingredients from the measuring cup. This is a better way. 

Will it work every time? No. In some cases, the recipe instructions say to mix the sticky with other things before adding to the dry ingredients. In that case, go back to spraying your measuring cup and proceed on as usual. 

But...when you can get away with this hack, do it! I used it in the bread machine, since I knew the recipe well enough to not mix the sticky molasses with the liquids and get away with the minor change. This was not on delay cycle! I hit start as soon as the last ingredient (yeast) went in. 

Example: The recipe calls for 1/3 cup of honey. Press your 1/3 cup measuring cup into the flour or dry ingredients all the way to the rim and remove the measuring cup. What's left is a fairly exact duplicate of your measuring cup in the flour to use without getting your measuring cup sticky.