Grandma’s Household Hints and Recipes Using Time Tested Economical Tips in Your Home
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Grandma’s Household Hints and Recipes Using Time Tested Economical Tips in Your Home
Time tested old tips and recipes for a 21st Century Householder
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
In the Kitchen
Spreading hard butter
Prevent Glasses From Breaking
Opening stubborn bottle tops
Cooking with green vegetables
Treat burns
Making bread and cookie crumbs instantly
Making self rising flour
Making pie crust flaky
Making pickled onion and cucumber in vinegar
Separating egg whites from yolks
Pungent fishy smell
Keeping fruit and vegetables fresh
How to open a coconut or crack pecan nuts?
Sugar syrup making.
Keep your refrigerator sweet
Stains under the nails
Straining soup without clogging
Peeling carrots
Best way of slicing bacon
Keep cream from curdling
Get more juice out of lemons
Mixing board slab
Skinning tomatoes easily
Absorbing Extra Salt in the Food
Onions, onions, onions
Tenderize meat
Testing mushrooms
Stop fish from breaking up when frying:
How to remove a cake without its breaking up
Preventing rice grains from sticking
Getting rid of pests
Flies
Cockroaches
Get rid of moths
Get rid of rats and mice
Prevent Boiling Eggs from Cracking
Home remedies
Pimple remedy
Cough
Gastric trouble
Nausea
Insomnia remedy
Sprains
In the House
Fresh paint smell
Keeping flowers fresh
Removing grease stains on wallpaper
Cleaning Glass Panes
Protection Against Spilled Water on bed
Sofa cushions stuffing
For Clogged Lavatory Basins
Clean Bath Tub and sink
To Clean Mirrors
To Clean and Purify a Sponge
Lemon clothes whitener
Remove scorch stains from white clothes
Cutting old glass bottles without cutting yourself
Sagging cane chairs
Uses of velveteen
Thawing out icy steps
Using Plaster of Paris to Mend Walls
Stain removing hints
Fruit, tea, wine and coffee stains
Indelible ink stains
Grease stains from white woolens
Remove Perspiration Stains
Mud Stains
Blood stains
Remove mildew
Car grease stains
Wax stains
Tar Spots
Iodine Stains
Blueberry stains
Rust stains
Ink stains
To Remove Ink from linen after it has dried in
Ink on Carpet
Conclusion
Author Bio
Introduction
I began looking at grandma’s household hints when I saw that most of us were using chemical based cleaners to clean our greasy kitchen utensils every morning and evening. Not only was this bad for our general health, because there could be a side effect due to any possible residue of chemicals which had not been washed away during the last rinsing.
This is why this collection of grandma’s household hints, is going to be very useful for all those people who prefer natural or easily available remedies, and solutions available right there in the kitchen or gardens.
Apart from your home and kitchen, you are going to find long forgotten hints, which were used by your and my grandma to get rid of stains, preserve clothes from pests, and other tips, which may sound very amusing and surprising in this day and age. But you should remember that grandma was brought up in times when she had to watch every penny of grandpa’s limited income and make it stretch until it screeched. That is why, she was more prone to using her own natural good sense, inborn shrewdness, or knowledge passed to her from her own grandmother, friends, relatives, and from her neighbors too. In fact, they used to meet once in a while, and exchange household tips, which may have gone something like this “Oh, Mrs...., I have found it so easy to remove stains from my hands, by just rubbing a lemon over them, and I prevent chapping by drying my hands after I have done the washing and then rubbing a pinch of starch all over the surface, ”all the while waving those same unchapped s
John Davidson
My coauthor John Davidson was a high school teacher for 25 years and volunteered for the Vancouver Crisis Centre. He recently passed away on November 7, 2021.
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Grandma’s Household Hints and Recipes Using Time Tested Economical Tips in Your Home - John Davidson
Grandma’s
Household Hints and Recipes
Using Time Tested
Economical Tips in Your Home
John Davidson
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Time tested old tips and recipes for a 21st Century Householder
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
IN THE KITCHEN
Spreading hard butter
Prevent Glasses From Breaking
Opening stubborn bottle tops
Cooking with green vegetables.
Treat burns
Making bread and cookie crumbs instantly
Making self rising flour
Making pie crust flaky
Making pickled onion and cucumber in vinegar
Separating egg whites from yolks
Pungent fishy smell
Keeping fruit and vegetables fresh
How to open a coconut or