This week my wonderful friend Helen came to stay. We had a lovely time together talking about all kinds of things, watching excellent TV, visiting the National Rail Museum with the children and eating lots of food together. She is a fellow ramekin enthusiast, and made the most fantastic chocolate souffles for our pudding on Wednesday evening, making use of these charming specimens of earthenware! Once I'd finished enthusing about her culinary abilities, we began devising a list of further uses for a ramekin (not that their place in my kitchen requires any justification) for the benefit of anyone who is yet to be converted. I hereby present you with our ideas: Ten Uses for a Ramekin!1. Baking chocolate souffles and other miniature desserts.
2. Serving cat food.
3. Serving baby food (preferably not in the same ramekin from which the cat has just finished eating).
4. Removing odours from your fridge by filling a ramekin with bicarbonate of soda (thank you Simone!).
5. Serving smarties at parties (or peanuts, which doesn't rhyme but is pleasingly alliterative).
6. Storing small items which would otherwise go astray, eg pins (should you regrettably find yourself short of a pincushion).
7. Using as a scone, doughnut or cookie cutter.
8. Presenting hummus and other dips in an attractive manner. Indeed, a ramekin can enhance chutney, jam, marmalade, butter and many other foods besides.
9. Accommodating a candle or tea light, thus preventing wax drips on furniture.
10. Storing used stamps to send to charity (Google "used stamps charity" for ideas).
Please share your ideas too, as I'm always delighted to discover a new use for a ramekin! Have a lovely weekend!
Oh, the possibilities are endless! I'm a big fan of ramakins myself. Holding sequins & glitter when crafting is another use. Also when I'm baking with the girls I weigh out ingredients at the start & put small quantities into ramakins until they need to be added. Also use them for cake decorating I.e. Different toppings & sprinkles each in its own little dish perfect for little fingers to get into. Also a single flower floating in a ramakin can be very pretty. I could go on ;) love your ideas though think at one time or another I've done them all except the cat food one.
ReplyDeleteThis list is great, and I now have plenty of ideas for alternative uses for ramekins! :-) Can't think of any to add at the mo, but will post if I do :-) xxxxx
ReplyDeleteI have one! Decanting eggs before poaching - cracking with one hand while stirring the water with the other is just too much and leads to the heartbreak of broken yolk. If you crack the egg into a handy receptacle first it's so much easier. Much love xxx
ReplyDeleteSally - our very own Aggie MacKenzie - would have us all filling ramekins with vinegar to get rid of unpleasant odours around the home. Apparently the vinegar's own unpleasant odour disappears after a couple of hours and takes any others with it. Personally I prefer an odour neutralising spray, but then, sadly, I don't share Sally's frugal tendencies :)
ReplyDeleteOh no Bicarb is the solution it's odorless but absorbs bad smells. A ramakin 1/3rd full is about the right amount ;) I posted a D.I.Y fabreze recipie last week on my blog in case you ever fancied it. lol
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