• To ripen avocados quickly leave in a bowl of flour.
• For burnt or scorched pots, boil together ½ litre of water with 1-tsp bicarbonate of soak and let this mixture soak into your pot. Thereafter wash pot out with dishwashing liquid. NOT TO BE USED ON AMC POTS.
• For eggs not to crack when boiling them add a dash of vinegar or lemon juice.
• When freezing fresh garlic cloves add oil and freeze or leave in fridge.
• If your gravy or perhaps your dhall is too salty cut in a raw potato and remove before serving.
• If your rice burns, add a few slices of bread to your pot before steaming.
• Substitute for self-raising flour: 1 cup cake flour + 2 tsp. baking powder.
• For snowy white rice add some lemon juice to your water.
• To clean your brasswares take ½ tsp. tartaric acid and ½ litre of boiling water. Soak your brassware in this mixture.
• To remove bubblegum from clothes spray some doom on it.
• To stop cheese from becoming lumpy add a pinch of sugar.
• To avoid getting worms in your rice add some rough salt in the container you store it in.
• To remove rust stains make a paste from vinegar and bicarb and apply on stains. Rinse off.
• For mouth sores: sprinkle elachi powder and drink a cup of mint tea.
• For an excellent facemask: melt some honey and apply over your face. Leave for 10 minutes and then wash off.
• To remove stains from a thermos flask, take 1-tsp. vinegar, a few crushed eggshells and a cup of warm water. Let this stand in the flask for a while. Then wash it out.
• To stop your eyes from watering while cutting onions, put them in the fridge an hour or so before chopping
them.
To stop milk from going sour, add a pinch of baking powder.
To clean your stainless steel pots and ornaments soak in jik then wash off with soap and rinse thoroughly.
To keep fresh flowers fresh for long add a cup of ice and tsp. of salt.
To sweeten sour creams add a pinch of bicarb and any flavoring, sugar and a little salt.
Lemons are excellent for corns. Rub a lemon on a corn.
Place a bowl of water in your oven when baking biscuits. Your biscuits will come out crisp.
To keep rats and mice away plant lavender in your garden.
To avoid your used paintbrush from becoming hard, soak it in sta-soft.
• Place a couple of bay leaves in your rice to avoid insects.
• Rub sunlight liquid on your big pots when cooking on gas stoves or open fires. This will prevent your pots from
getting black.
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