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Add a few pinches of salt to cauliflower while boiling. Add a small blob of butter to the drained cauliflower and mix. This will enhance the flavour of the cauliflower in your recipe.
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Always store aamras and other mango desserts in non-metal containers, because when stored in metal containers they may get discoloured.
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Dehydrate the residue of coconut used for coconut milk by drying the sun. This dried flaked coconut can be used in dry chutneys, sweets, masalas, etc.
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Rub mustard oil on palms and soles to bring warmth to a shivering body. Also use as massage oil for aching joints and muscles. However, the smell may be a bit repulsive, so add a few drops of perfume if desired.
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Hair Dye
Apply petroleum jelly all along the hairline, face and neck before applying dye to hair. This will avoid staining of the skin with dye that tends to run down.
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To remove rain spots from suede shoes, rub with an emery board.
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Place a small clean kitchen towel at the bottom of a pile of hot rotis, moongdis, etc. so that the layer of moisture created with heat, is absorbed by it. Or else the lower ones will become moist and soggy. Remove towel when the rotis have cooled comepletely. For soft rotis, place in a tin, also place a napkin on top of the pile before placing lid. This will soak droplets formed inside the tin.
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Add a few drops of lemon juice to rice, while it is cooking. This will keep the grain from breaking easily.
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Use Idly cooker for baking by using little water at the bottom and placing the dish above it.
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If you cannot get hold of diwali diyas (lamps), make your own by mould out of ordinary wheat flour dough, about a week ahead, dry well and paint.
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Paneer crumbs, bread crumbs and some melted butter, tossed together form an excellent topping if you run short of cheese, for any baked dishes.
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Instead of discarding extra roses from bouquets dry them and prepare a bouquet garni, a pot pourri of fragrance in a net sachet. Or dry, grind and mix powder with gramflour, store in a jar. For a refreshing bath scrub, to 1 tsp. mixture, add 1 tsp. curds, 1/2 tsp.honey. Scrub and wash. Use daily for a glowing skin.
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Make croutons in a jiffy. Cut 2 slices day old bread in small cubes. Heat a tbsp. of butter in a heavy pan, add cubes, and stir fry till they are crisp and golden brown.
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Always set puddings, jellies, etc. till very firm, but do not allow them to freeze hard. They will Lose their original lightness by doing so. Chill till well set in freezer, then transfer to chiller Or lower section of fridge. Return to freezer for just 10 minutes before serving.
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Sometimes oil begins to foam on heating to deepfry and rises dangerously in the pan. To dissipate the foam add a marble sized ball of tamarind to the oil.
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Foot Ware - Durability
Apply some transparent adhesive liquid over stitching of footwear, with a fine brush, to make Them last longer.
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Stain Removal
Rub tomato juice on moistened stain on fabric or garment. The stain will eventually disappear. Then wash with soap suds as usual. Hang out to dry.
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To access bindis easily, put them in a small photo album, like photographs. They will be not fall about and can be located very fast.
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To ripen bananas quickly keep them wrapped in a paper bag in a dark place.
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If instant coffee kept in a bottle hardens due to humidity, pour some hot water to dissolve it. Cool and refrigerate. Use as desired but not keep for too many weeks, as it may ferment.
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