I love and use all of the Watkins products I just mentioned, but I purposely chose to write this article about two Watkins products we can’t do without in my household and use every day.  One is Watkins Cooking Spray — yes, a cooking spray.  Now you might ask “What’s the big deal about a cooking spray?” or “I use a name-brand cooking spray like Pam already, why should I choose Watkins Cooking Spray?”  That’s what I thought before I purchased my first can, but now my wife and family members are hooked on this product.  We tell everyone we know that it’s not just a cooking spray, but it’s the best dang cooking spray in the world.  So why is Watkins Cooking Spray so great?  Allow me to share just a few points about this wonderful product:

1. Watkins Cooking Spray comes in a large 397 gram can that seems to last forever.
2. Seriously, even if you cook at home every day, one can of Watkins Cooking Spray will last more many months, if not a year.
3. The can has a highly refined spray tip that puts out the most even spray I’ve ever witnessed on a product of this kind.  Just a couple of small spurts can coat an entire skillet.
4. I challenge you to spray a skillet with Pam, then spray another skillet of equal size with Watkins Cooking Spray and you’ll see that the Watkins spray will win out every time, given you nicer, cleaner and more even spray pattern that coats the entire skillet with the same volume and level of spray.  No more uneven areas or holes like you’ll find with Pam or other cooking spray products.
5. Watkins advertises over 1,600 servings from a single can, as each 1/3 second spray only puts out a fraction of a gram.
6. Zero calories and zero fat content.  (I can’t believe I didn’t make this my first bullet, because this feature alone makes Watkins Cooking Spray the best cooking spray on the market).
7. Natural butter flavor (without the fat and without the calories!!!!)

Do yourself and your family a favor and quit using fattening cooking sprays that run out in weeks and add a foul taste to your food.  Buy Watkins Cooking Spray now, over 1,600 sprays per can for only $7.99 per can.

The other fantastic Watkins product that we cook with a lot in our household, practically daily because we eat a lot of chicken and fish, is Watkins Citrus Cilantro Grapeseed Oil.  This healthy cooking oil product is organic and tastes wonderful.  Our all-natural grapeseed oil is lower in saturated fat and higher in unsaturated fats than nearly all other oils. One of the only foods shown to both lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and increase HDL (“good”) cholesterol, its antioxidant content makes it not only healthy, but very stable. A high smoke point makes it perfect for grilling or sauteing.  Trust me on this one folks, you won’t find a more healthy cooking alternative to cooking oil and certainly not one this tasty.  Buy Watkins Citrus Cilantro Grapeseed Oil now!

Five Flavor Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Five Flavor Cake Ingredients

• 3 cups/750 ml sugar
• 5 eggs, beaten until lemon-colored
• 3 cups/750 ml all-purpose flour
• 1 cup/250 ml (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
• 1/2 cup/125 ml vegetable shortening
• 1 cup/250 ml milk
• 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Baking Powder
• 1 tsp/5 ml Watkins Coconut Extract
• 1 tsp/5 ml Watkins Rum Extract
• 1 tsp/5 ml Watkins Butter Extract
• 1 tsp/5 mL Watkins Lemon Extract
• 1 tsp/5 mL Watkins Original Double-Strength Vanilla

Six-Flavor Glaze Ingredients

• 1/2 cup/125 mL sugar
• 1/4 cup/60 mL water
• 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Coconut Extract
• 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Rum Extract
• 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Butter Extract
• 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Lemon Extract
• 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Original Double-Strength Vanilla
• 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Almond Extract

Cooking Directions

Five Flavor Cake

1. Cream together the sugar, butter and shortening in a large mixing bowl until the texture is light and fluffy. 
2. Next, add the eggs and beat until smooth.  In small bowl, combine flour and baking powder; mix well and set aside.
3. Combine the milk and extracts.
4. Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture.
5. Spoon the completed mixture into a greased 10-inch/25-cm tube (angel food cake) pan.
6. Bake at 325°F (165ºC) for 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 hours or until cake tests done.
7. Cool in a pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
8. Turn cake out of pan onto wire rack and invert again.
9. Place waxed paper under rack to catch glaze drippings.
10. Slowly spoon the glaze onto top of hot cake and let glaze drizzle down sides of cake.
11. Let everything cool completely.

Six-Flavor Glaze

1. Combine all the glaze ingredients in a heavy saucepan.
2. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, while constantly stirring until the sugar dissolves.

Makes 12 Servings.

Note: If you know you’re not going to be able to eat all of the cake soon, cut the cake in 4 pieces and put 3 pieces in separate ziplock bags.  You’ll be surprised how fresh the cake will taste, even a month or two later.  Watkins extracts hold up really well when food they’re in is placed in the freezer.  Simply remove from freezer and thaw completely before eating if you opt to store some in the freezer.

Ingredients:

• Spanish Onions
• Watkins Sea Salt
• Watkins Paprika
• Watkins Black Pepper
• Watkins Cooking Spray
• Watkins Onion Soup & Gravy Base
• Butter

Cooking Instructions:

Take the number of onions you think it will take to feed your group, likely one per person.  Skin each Spanish onion and cut crosswise into 3 slices.   Spray Watkins cooking spray on a baking dish and lay each onion slice side by side.  Season accordingly with Watkins sea salt, black pepper and paprika.  Then dot each onion with butter.

On your stovetop make enough Watkins Onion Soup & Gravy Base to pour to a depth of 1/4 inch in the baking pan and have some left over for basting during the baking process.   Bring the onion soup base to a boil and then pour slowly into the pan to the 1/4-inch depth.

Bake at 325 degree F while basting with more onion soup base for at least an hour until the soup stock is absorbed and the onions are tender and a nice brown color.

Known far and wide for its Watkins Double Vanilla Extract, Watkins Cinnamon, Watkins Black Pepper and great home remedy products like Red Liniment, White Liniment, Menthol Camphor Rub, Petro-Carbo salve, Linimax, etc., Watkins has been a favorite supplier of home, family and personal care products since its humble beginning.

The fall and winter season is “Watkins Time,” for when holiday cooking begins to escalate, home cooks and bakers call their Watkins associate and order their vanilla, almond extract, lemon extract, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a host of other spices, seasonings, flavoring and extracts that will be used for to cook their favorite recipes.

To order your favorite Watkins products for the holiday season, visit our Watkins store now.  Just click here.  We also invite you to request a free Watkins catalog and we’ll ship it within 24 hours.  If you’re interested in becoming a Watkins associate and buying Watkins products at wholesale, request our free, no-obligation, Watkins Business Evaluation Kit now. 

• 2 sticks of margarine
• 1/2 cup of shortening
• 3 cups of sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup of milk
• 2 teaspoons of Watkins double-strength vanilla
• 1/2 cup of Watkins baking cocoa
• 1/2 tsp. of Watkins baking powder
• 3 cups of flour
• 1/2 tsp. of salt
• 1 cup of pecans, chopped

Cooking Instructions:

Cream the margarine, shortening and sugar.  Add eggs to the mixture one at a time, beating well after each egg.  Starting with one of the remaining liquid ingredients, add one liquid followed by one dry ingredient to your creamed mixture, mixing well after each addition round of a liquid and dry ingredient.  Continue doing this until you end with the final liquid ingredient.  Next, grease and flour a tube pan.  Add your batter to the pan.  Sprinkle the chopped nuts on top of the batterr and gently press the nuts into the batter.  Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes at 325 degrees F.