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Add some salt or vinegar drops while washing vegetables and greens to make them clean and germ free, eg. cauliflower, spinach, etc.
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Always soak cauliflower in warm salted water for some time to get rid of the tiny insects sometimes present deep inside the florets and not visible to the eye.
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Put two to three cloves in the sugar to keep ants at bay.
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Spend 10 minutes each morning (even if it is in the bathroom), to make a list of work to be done with approx. time required. Pin it on your refrigerator door. Your work will get much more organised and you will find a lot of time saved at the end. Beside none of it will be left behind due to forgetting.
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To patch grazing stains on wood polished furniture, apply a similar shaded slightly darker shoe Polish to affected area, brush vigourously with a soft shoe brush. Finish off with polishing Flannel. If the stain is too old or obvious, first scratch the area smooth with fine sand paper.
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To clean the surface of vegetables like potato, radish, sweetpotato, carrots, etc. use a separate plastic scrubber or toothbrush kept for the purpose. Hold under running water and scrub.
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If you have excessive stock of green chillies, do not waste them. Boil in hot salted water, till white. Drain and sun dry till brittle. Crush or store whole and use as required in any dish requiring chillies, without Changing the colour of the dish.
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Bread ground to a paste with some water, in a mixie, acts as a good thickening agent for soups if cornflour is not available.
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A shortcut method is to use cashew powder, soaked for 10 minutes in some milk. Then proceed as above. But the result may not be as smooth as the original recipe.
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To clean stains from melamine cups and suacers, fill them with liquid bleach, leave aside for 2 hours, rinse with water. If you clean one piece at a time, the same bleach can be poured into all pieces one by one, and very little bleach will be required to clean many pieces of melamineware.
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While storing green chillies, remove the stems. This will help the chilies to stay fresh for a longer time.
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Lipstick Stains
Remove lipstick stains from fabrics, by first rubbing with Vaseline. Then sponge with soap suds and wash with warm water.
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Place clean kitchen napkins above and below a pile of hot chappatis in the box, to keep the from Becoming soggy.
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Tea Cups
Pour some diluted liquid bleach into tea stained cups. Keep aside for 2-3 hours. Wash with soap. The tea stains will come off easily.
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Make the life of new paintbrushes much longer, by soaking them in linseed oil for 10-12 hours before using. This will not only make them last longer, but will also ease cleaning later on.
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Always keep some readymade gingerpaste and garlic paste in the freezer. Comes in handy and enhances the flavor of most dishes in a jiffy.
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Tamarind paste and curd help reduce the burning sensation on the hands by chillies. Just rub the paste or curd onto your palms.
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Dandruf and Lice
Soak a few (4-5) tablets of camphor in your hairoil (coconut) to keep away dandruff and lice.
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Smear your hands with a little tamarind juice while collecting butter from churned cream. The butter will not stick to the hands.
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Use day old slices of bread to hold better in the skewer. If the still slip, fasten with toothpick vertically inserted along the sides, to support the skewer.
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