1. Before painting, rub shaving cream all
over hands. Hands will come clean
much easier.
2. Put a small bowl of household ammonia
in the oven overnight 0 The oven will be
easier to clean the next day.
3. To remove paint from glass, use hot
vinegar.
4. Ammonia will remove blueberry stains.
5. When painting, smear the knobs, hinges,
and locks with vaseline and you can slop
around to your heart °s content. You can
wipe up the strayed droplets with ease.
6. Half ammonia and half water is a very good
varnish remover.
7. Smear white spots on mahogany furniture
with a thick coating of vaseline. Wait
for a couple of days and the spots will
*
come off easily.
8. When grease collects on top of broth,
float a piece of tissue paper or paper
towel on top of the soup and it will absorb
the grease--Or skim the soup with a piece
of ice. The grease will harden and can be
scraped off the ice.
9. Dishes that have become brown from baking
may have the stain removed by soaking in
strong borax and water.
158
TIME SAVERS
1. Try this for sparkling clean windows: Wash
them with a cloth soaked in vinegar and polish
with a newspaper.
2. Brown paper moistened in vinegar will polish
tins until they shine like silver.
3. To keep foods such as spaghetti from boiling
over, rub top edge of kettle with a little fat.
4. To remove stains from hands, use a piece of
lemon.
5* Put aluminum foil down under your stove burners
to catch those boiling-over accidents.
6. When painting, pull on an old pair of work
socks over your shoes. Put a little kerosene
on socks. Wipe up spots of paint without
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Presented as published in 1963. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
1. Before painting, rub shaving cream all over hands. Hands will come clean much easier.
2. Put a small bowl of household ammonia in the oven overnight 0 The oven will be easier to clean the next day.
3. To remove paint from glass, use hot vinegar.
4. Ammonia will remove blueberry stains.
5. When painting, smear the knobs, hinges, and locks with vaseline and you can slop around to your heart's content. You can wipe up the strayed droplets with ease.
6. Half ammonia and half water is a very good varnish remover.
7. Smear white spots on mahogany furniture with a thick coating of vaseline. Wait
for a couple of days and the spots will
*
come off easily.
8. When grease collects on top of broth, float a piece of tissue paper or paper towel on top of the soup and it will absorb the grease--Or skim the soup with a piece of ice. The grease will harden and can be scraped off the ice.
9. Dishes that have become brown from baking may have the stain removed by soaking in strong borax and water.
TIME SAVERS
1. Try this for sparkling clean windows: Wash them with a cloth soaked in vinegar and polish with a newspaper.
2. Brown paper moistened in vinegar will polish tins until they shine like silver.
3. To keep foods such as spaghetti from boiling over, rub top edge of kettle with a little fat.
4. To remove stains from hands, use a piece of lemon.
5* Put aluminum foil down under your stove burners to catch those boiling-over accidents.
6. When painting, pull on an old pair of work socks over your shoes. Put a little kerosene on socks. Wipe up spots of paint without
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