Post by homemade on Feb 8, 2003 21:36:29 GMT -6
Carry ripe fruit such as plums apricots etc in egg cartons when going on a picnic.
Milk will keep fresh allday if a good pinch of baking soda is added.
Relieve itching from insect bites by rubbing with a cut raw onion, a dab of ammonia or a crushed aspirin pasted with water.
Lettuce will keep well if washed and wrapped in very damp kitchen paper. The hotter the day, the greater the evaporation, the crisper the lettuce.
Cut a capsicum into rings and cook eggs inside them on the BBQ, saves white running and looks and tastes great.
Cut sandwiches will remain fresh if wrapped in lettuce leaves, then aluminium foil - especially if made the night before.
To keep salads fresh before they are needed, invert a saucer in bottom of bowl, juices will run underneath.
Ants don't like talcum powder sprinkle wherever they are.
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Instead of water in pastry and milk in cakes try soda water, pastry is lighter, cakes delicious.
If your jam won't set add 3 TBS lemon juice to every 4lb of fruit and re-boil.
Rub salt over a cracked egg, prevents white from coming out when boiling.
To make a mixed peel, cut orange and lemon rinds into thin strips put into a screw top jar with a little honey.
Milk will keep fresh allday if a good pinch of baking soda is added.
Relieve itching from insect bites by rubbing with a cut raw onion, a dab of ammonia or a crushed aspirin pasted with water.
Lettuce will keep well if washed and wrapped in very damp kitchen paper. The hotter the day, the greater the evaporation, the crisper the lettuce.
Cut a capsicum into rings and cook eggs inside them on the BBQ, saves white running and looks and tastes great.
Cut sandwiches will remain fresh if wrapped in lettuce leaves, then aluminium foil - especially if made the night before.
To keep salads fresh before they are needed, invert a saucer in bottom of bowl, juices will run underneath.
Ants don't like talcum powder sprinkle wherever they are.
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Instead of water in pastry and milk in cakes try soda water, pastry is lighter, cakes delicious.
If your jam won't set add 3 TBS lemon juice to every 4lb of fruit and re-boil.
Rub salt over a cracked egg, prevents white from coming out when boiling.
To make a mixed peel, cut orange and lemon rinds into thin strips put into a screw top jar with a little honey.