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If curry gets burnt, add few pieces of bread,and close it, it will absorb the burnt smell and later you can throw the pieces away.
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Add a pinch of sugar while boiling/cooking green beans.This will retain the color of the beans even after cooked.
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If any time while cooking or frying, hot oil spilled up on your hand or anywhere or got badly hurt immediately apply raw egg and it will recover very fast.
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For Sugar/Blood Pressure: Eat bitter melon or crush and drink the juice.
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For Tooth pain,use clove or clove oil and apply them on the bad tooth.
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Cleaning Comb
To clean dirty comb, put it in between the clothes soaked in detergent. It'll automatically come out clean.
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Pour milk along inner wall of slightly tilted glass in a thin stream, to avoid its mixing with the lower layers in the glass. Straighten the glass carefully. Also chill glasses well before using.
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Lemon halves shrivel in the fridge when unused. Hence freeze them in polyethylene bags so that they are handy for making cold drinks whenever the need arises.
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Fresh, clean and tender skins of ridge gourd need not be thrown out. Boil for 3-4 minutes in salted water. Drain and wash under cold running water. Wipe on towel, add green chillies, garlic, salt, coriander, tamarind and a little sugar. Grind to a chutney. The skins are full of nutrients.
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Put potatoes in a fridge to stay for long time.
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To make a floral arti dish requirements are: rose pedals, cunco, adhesive tape, glitters Take your thali (plate) and border it with rose petals. Draw an "om" with the double side adhesive tape in the middle of thali. Sprinkle glitters on the adhesive tape. Take the cunco and put dots on the rose pedals.
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To save time, dry ground powders can be made ahead, and stored in tight containers when you have more free time. Use when required. Masala powder that use coconut must be kept in the refrigerator.
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One way to test if the mango is rip enough to cut, is to smell the point where the mango was attached to the tree. Nip off any remaining stalk, smell. If the mango is right, it will exude a luscious sweet fragrant aroma.
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Stains Of Fruit Juices
To remove the stains of citrous fruit juices, especially of lemons from the floor, smear the stain with coconut oil and rub well. The stain will vanish within a few days.
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If a grater is not handy, cut ginger or garlic into small bits. Crush with the back of a steel or wooden ladle. It will easily crush.
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For Stiff Cotton Clothes
Use starch water from rice to give a light starch to your cotton or silk scarves, dupattas, or sarees. Dilute before using.
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To freeze stock of your choice, eg., tomato, mixed vegetable as above, spinach, etc., prepare thick stock and cool to room temperature. Transfer to icecube trays and freeze to make solid cubes. Remove cubes and transfer to a freezable polythene bag, with an airseal. Remove excess air, seal tight. Store in freezer and use cubes as required.
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Keep boondi unseasoned, just plain fried and use in boondi raita as required (refer raitas).
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When soups or stews get slightly burnt you can renew the taste by transferring it gently and carefully into a clean pan and flavouring with curry powder or mustard to camouflage the burnt taste.
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Perfume Tip
When your perfume bottle gets used up, place open bottle in wardrobe. A light whiff of your favourite perfume will envelope your clothes and cupboard for quite some time.
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