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Martha's
way |
My
way |
1 |
Stuff a miniature
marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice cream drips. |
Just suck the ice cream
out of the bottom of the cone, you are probably lying on the couch with your feet up
eating it anyway. |
2 |
Use a meat baster to
"squeeze" your pancake batter onto the hot griddle and you'll get perfectly
shaped pancakes every time |
Buy the precooked kind
you nuke in the microwave for 30 seconds. The hard part is getting them out of the plastic
bag. |
3 |
To keep potatoes from
budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes. |
Buy Hungry Jack mashed
potato mix and keep it in the pantry for up to a year. |
4 |
To prevent eggshells
from cracking, add a pinch of salt to the water before hard-boiling. |
Who cares if they crack,
aren't you going to take the shells off anyway? |
5 |
To get the most juice out
of fresh lemons, bring them to room temperature and roll them under your palm against the
kitchen counter before squeezing. |
Sleep with the lemons in
between the mattress and box springs. |
6 |
To easily remove burnt-on
food from your skillet, simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water to cover
bottom of pan, and bring to a boil on stovetop. |
Eat out every night and
avoid cooking. |
7 |
Spray your Tupperware
with nonstick cooking spray before pouring in tomato based sauces and there won't be any
stains. |
Feed it to your garbage
disposal and there won't be any leftovers. |
8 |
When a cake recipe calls
for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead and there won't be any
white mess on the outside of the cake. |
Go to the bakery. They'll
even decorate it for you |
9 |
If you accidentally over
salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato and it will absorb the
excess salt for an instant "fix me up" |
If you over salt a dish
while you are cooking, that's too damn bad. My motto: I made it and you will eat it and I
don't care how bad it tastes! . |
10 |
Wrap celery in aluminium
foil when putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks. |
Celery? Never heard of
the stuff. |
11 |
Brush some beaten egg
white over piecrust before baking to yield a beautiful glossy finish. |
The Mrs. Smith frozen pie
directions do not include brushing egg whites over the crust and so I don't do |
12 |
Place a slice of apple in
hardened brown sugar to soften it. |
Brown sugar is supposed
to be "soft"? |
13 |
When boiling corn on the
cob, add a pinch of sugar to help bring out the corn's natural sweetness. |
The only kind of corn I
buy comes in a can. |
14 |
To determine whether an
egg is fresh, immerse it in a pan of cool, salted water. If it sinks, it is fresh, but if
it rises to the surface, throw it away. |
Eat, cook, or use the egg
anyway. If you feel bad later, you will know it wasn't fresh. |
15 |
Cure for headaches: Take
a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away. |
Martha, dear, the only
reason this works is because you can't rub a lime on your forehead without getting lime
juice in your eye, and then the problem isn't the headache anymore, it is because you
are now blind. |
16 |
Don't throw out all that
leftover wine. Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces. |
Leftover wine? |
17 |
If you have a problem
opening jars: Try using latex dishwashing gloves. They give a non slip grip that makes
opening jars easy. |
Go ask the very cute
neighbour to do it. |
18 |
Potatoes will take food
stains off your fingers. Just slice and rub raw potato on the stains and rinse with water. |
Mashed potatoes will now
be replacing the anti-bacterial soap in the handy dispenser next to my sink. |
19 |
Now look what you can do
with Alka Seltzer.
 | Clean a toilet: drop in two Alka-Seltzer
tablets, wait twenty minutes, brush and flush. The citric acid and effervescent action
clean vitreous china.
|
| Clean a vase: to remove a stain from the bottom of a glass vase or cruet, fill
with water and drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets. |
| Polish jewellery: drop two Alka-Seltzer tablets into a glass of water and immerse
the jewellery for two minutes. |
| Clean a thermos bottle: fill the bottle with water, drop in four Alka-Seltzer
tablets, and let soak for an hour (or longer, if necessary). |
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Put your jewellery,
vases, and thermos in the toilet. Add some Alka Seltzer and you have solved a whole bunch
of problems at once. |
