Grandma’s Household Hints and Recipes Using Time Tested Economical Tips in Your Home

Grandma’s Household Hints and Recipes Using Time Tested Economical Tips in Your Home

Author: John Davidson

Publisher: JD-Biz Corp Publishing

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1310303738

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Grandma’s Household Hints and Recipes Using Time Tested Economical Tips in Your Home Time tested old tips and recipes for a 21st Century Householder TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction In the Kitchen Spreading hard butter Prevent Glasses From Breaking Opening stubborn bottle tops Cooking with green vegetables Treat burns Making bread and cookie crumbs instantly Making self rising flour Making pie crust flaky Making pickled onion and cucumber in vinegar Separating egg whites from yolks Pungent fishy smell Keeping fruit and vegetables fresh How to open a coconut or crack pecan nuts? Sugar syrup making. Keep your refrigerator sweet Stains under the nails Straining soup without clogging Peeling carrots Best way of slicing bacon Keep cream from curdling Get more juice out of lemons Mixing board slab Skinning tomatoes easily Absorbing Extra Salt in the Food Onions, onions, onions Tenderize meat Testing mushrooms Stop fish from breaking up when frying: How to remove a cake without its breaking up Preventing rice grains from sticking Getting rid of pests Flies Cockroaches Get rid of moths Get rid of rats and mice Prevent Boiling Eggs from Cracking Home remedies Pimple remedy Cough Gastric trouble Nausea Insomnia remedy Sprains In the House Fresh paint smell Keeping flowers fresh Removing grease stains on wallpaper Cleaning Glass Panes Protection Against Spilled Water on bed Sofa cushions stuffing For Clogged Lavatory Basins Clean Bath Tub and sink To Clean Mirrors To Clean and Purify a Sponge Lemon clothes whitener Remove scorch stains from white clothes Cutting old glass bottles without cutting yourself Sagging cane chairs Uses of velveteen Thawing out icy steps Using Plaster of Paris to Mend Walls Stain removing hints Fruit, tea, wine and coffee stains Indelible ink stains Grease stains from white woolens Remove Perspiration Stains Mud Stains Blood stains Remove mildew Car grease stains Wax stains Tar Spots Iodine Stains Blueberry stains Rust stains Ink stains To Remove Ink from linen after it has dried in Ink on Carpet Conclusion Author Bio Introduction I began looking at grandma’s household hints when I saw that most of us were using chemical based cleaners to clean our greasy kitchen utensils every morning and evening. Not only was this bad for our general health, because there could be a side effect due to any possible residue of chemicals which had not been washed away during the last rinsing. This is why this collection of grandma’s household hints, is going to be very useful for all those people who prefer natural or easily available remedies, and solutions available right there in the kitchen or gardens. Apart from your home and kitchen, you are going to find long forgotten hints, which were used by your and my grandma to get rid of stains, preserve clothes from pests, and other tips, which may sound very amusing and surprising in this day and age. But you should remember that grandma was brought up in times when she had to watch every penny of grandpa’s limited income and make it stretch until it screeched. That is why, she was more prone to using her own natural good sense, inborn shrewdness, or knowledge passed to her from her own grandmother, friends, relatives, and from her neighbors too. In fact, they used to meet once in a while, and exchange household tips, which may have gone something like this “Oh, Mrs…., I have found it so easy to remove stains from my hands, by just rubbing a lemon over them, and I prevent chapping by drying my hands after I have done the washing and then rubbing a pinch of starch all over the surface, ”all the while waving those same unchapped stainless hands in the air.


Grandma’s Household Tips Hints and Recipes

Grandma’s Household Tips Hints and Recipes

Author: John Davidson

Publisher: JD-Biz Corp Publishing

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1310255652

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Grandma’s Household Tips Hints and Recipes Volume 2 Table of Contents Introduction Hamburger Tips Hamburger Roll Bacon and Eggs Sticking? Getting Rid of Coffee Grounds Taking care of Kitchen Fires Homemade Candy As Gifts – Keeping It Fresh Old-Fashioned Fudge. No Cook Fudge Baking Potatoes Tip Potato Full Meal Dish. What to Do with Whipped Cream That Does Not Separate Making the Perfect Whipped Cream Whipped Cream for Cake Frosting How to Preserve Cooking Oil? Making Sure a Sauce Does Not Dry Béchamel sauce Peanut Sauce – This Comes Straight from Jakarta Keeping Your Mustard Moist How to Thicken a Soup Getting the Most Perfect Boiled Rice Stop Milk from Boiling over or scalding How Did Grandma Preserve Butter? Cooking Asparagus Taking Care of Leftovers Traditional Salad Dressing French Dressing Low-Calorie Dressing Sour Cream Dressing Preserving cured ham Keeping Your Dishwasher Smelling Fresh Freshening up Stale Cheese Quick Emergency cake Dessert Quick Meals for the Busy Person Weekends and Vegetables Conclusion Author Bio Introduction Grandma was a very sensible and practical person. She knew the value of money, and that is why she kept on using shortcuts in order to keep the household expenses down. Apart from that, she made sure that she picked up all the useful household tips, which she got from her friends, and implemented them in her life. Some of these tips are so common sense that one wonders why we forgot about using them in the 21st century. So here are some of her tips, in the kitchen, in beauty, in good health, and around the house and gardens, which you are going to find extremely amusing, amazing and astounding. Let us start with something we enjoy very much – hamburgers.


Granny Mackie's Austerity Handbook

Granny Mackie's Austerity Handbook

Author: Heather E. M. Mackie

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-08-22

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0244709793

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A compilation of Austerity Recipes, and handy household hints collected over the years. There are also a few recipes given to the author from family friends for inclusion in this book. The recipes are mostly from my husband's late Grandfather who served as a cook with the Royal Marines during World War II.


Granny & Granddad's Household Encyclopedia

Granny & Granddad's Household Encyclopedia

Author: John O'Neon

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-09-19

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1446196968

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This Encyclopedia is a book that all households should have. It explains what medicines are used for and symptoms, It will explain how to repair most things about the home. It also contains worldly information on almost everything. plus, it has Granny's recipes of old, some you'll love and some you will wonder how they could eat them? It's a book once opened you'll find hard to put down...


Granny's Recipes, Remedies, and Helpful Hints

Granny's Recipes, Remedies, and Helpful Hints

Author: Jean Cross

Publisher: Gramercy

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780517677261

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Here's a unique collection of wisdom, recipes and household lore from the 1880's. Good old-fashioned advice covers a wide range of topics, from forecasting weather and curing illnesses to making soap, distilling whiskey and fixing what's broken. A treasure. B&W line drawings throughout.


Easy Tips for a Healthy Heart

Easy Tips for a Healthy Heart

Author: Dueep J. Singh

Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1310488452

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Easy Tips for a Healthy Heart Table of Contents Introduction Prevention of Heart Disease Cholesterol What Is Cholesterol? Cholesterol Rich Diet Is a Zero Fat Diet Beneficial? Triglycerides High Blood Pressure Diabetes and Coronary Blockages Obesity – Leading to Heart Problems Dieting to Reduce Obesity Medical Tests Reversing Heart Disease Rational Treatment Regime How Much Physical Activity Do You Need to Do? Your Dietary Habits Yoga and Meditation What is Yoga? How to Practice Yoga Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Did you know that about 26.6 million people in the USA alone are suffering from heart disease? Multiply this many times, and you are going to find that heart ailments are one of the most potentially fatal diseases, all over the globe known to mankind. In ancient times, heart diseases were normally treated with superstitious awe. The terrible pain of a heart attack was considered to be a punishment from the gods who sent pain and split a heart and killed the wicked person. As people grew more and more sophisticated and knowledgeable, doctors began to look for ways and means in which they go to alleviate the problems of people suffering from heart disease. Some of the remedies, especially remedies using digitalis – foxglove – could only be used by experienced wise men. Foxglove, when taken in large quantities was definitely poisonous. On the other hand, in very small quantities, it stimulated the heart, in the shape of an extract called digoxin. The use of this extract to help treat heart diseases was supposedly “discovered” in 2012 by researchers. What they did not tell the general public was that alternative medicine practitioners all over the world have been using foxglove to treat heart diseases down the centuries. But then they knew their public. This news had to be told with lots of fanfare, publicity and statistics that a natural plant extract could help treat heart diseases before people would subject themselves to treatment by it. This book is going to give you a lot of time-tested tips to help keep your heart healthy. All of them are common sense tips and most of them have a scientific basis. They do not come under the alternative medicine category, because they talk about diet, stress management, exercise, and other ways in which you can keep your heart healthy. And all these factors are definitely going to be told to you by your own doctor, when you go for your normal medical checkup every three months or so.


A Beginner's Guide to Edible Fungi Mushrooms

A Beginner's Guide to Edible Fungi Mushrooms

Author: Dueep J. Singh

Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books

Published: 2015-01-10

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1311863672

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A Beginner’s Guide to Edible Fungi Mushrooms Table of Contents Introduction Knowing more about Mushrooms Mushrooms in Medicine Cultivated varieties Of Mushrooms Types of Popular Mushrooms in Cuisine Morels Chanterelles Cantharellus cibarius or trumpet mushrooms Black Trumpets Porcini Shitake or Golden oak mushrooms Oyster Mushrooms Enoki Mushrooms Portobello Mushrooms Truffles Hon- Shimeji- Beech Mushroom The Death Cap – Amanita phalloides Fly Agaric- Amanita muscaria How to Avoid the After Effects of Inedible Mushrooms Tips Precautions while Hunting Mushrooms in the Wild Cultivating Mushrooms in Your Home Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction For millenniums, mankind has been looking towards nature to find easily available food supplements. While animals and birds provided him with protein, he also looked towards the plant kingdom to provide you with herbs, spices, and other edible means of food. Out of these mushrooms and all their varieties have been an integral part of his cuisine down the centuries, all over the world. In ancient China mushrooms were used in alternative medicine more than 3000 years ago. They are still used to cure a number of ailments, along with problems related to the nerves, mind and psyche. The mushrooms used here in minute quantities have psychoactive and psychedelic properties. That is why ancient medicine men normally gave them to patients, who believed that they had gone through a spiritual trance which was life defining. These psychedelic trance inducing mushrooms are now called shrooms and even though they are illegal in many parts of the world, they are eaten by people who want a “fix”. Edible mushrooms are called mushrooms, while the poisonous varieties were called toadstools. Only very experienced “mushroomists” know the difference between an edible variety and a poisonous variety. And this comes only with proper training from older experienced mushroom collectors.


A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks - Keeping Ducks in Your Backyard

A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks - Keeping Ducks in Your Backyard

Author: Dueep J. Singh

Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books

Published: 2015-01-09

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1311941959

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A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks - Keeping Ducks in Your Backyard Table of Contents Introduction Raising Ducks in Your Backyard Choosing Ducks Dabbling Ducks and Diving Ducks Incubation of Ducklings Artificial Incubation Brooding Cleaning duck eggs Ducks and drakes Housing Your Ducks How to Make a Grass Run Keeping a Small Flock Traditional House Dimensions Preventing Flight over Netting Breeding Ducks for the Table. Preparing Ducklings Ducks and Water Feeding Your Ducks. Layers Mash for Ducks What is Grass Meal? What is Bean Meal? Drinking Water Conclusion Author Bio Introduction It must have been somewhere, and some time millenniums ago, when man found that the Mallard and Muscovy that he hunted in the marshes, and brought home to his family was a bird which could be domesticated. One is not very certain about which particular civilization decided that duck brought up in your own farmyard, was a good source of eating for the whole family. Roast duck, broiled duck, duck with seasonings and herbs, even wild duck, along with their cousins, the geese and the swans made excellent fare especially during times, when other food resources were not so easily available. Geese and swans are definitely not considered ducks, though they belong to the same family. The original ancestral species is the same, even though the characteristics differ. Geese and swans are larger in size and can be found in seawater, as well as in freshwater. Ducks are smaller in size, but prefer freshwater habitats. In the same manner, you should not confuse ducks with other aquatic birds like divers, coots and grebes. All of them are good eating, but they are unrelated, except for their liking for water. Apart from the meat content and eggs, ducks have also been reared for their soft down. Drakes are larger in size, when compared to the female ducks. Some of the popular species are Muscovy ducks, Mallards Paradise Shelduck and Aylesbury . The bills are long, broad and sometimes, they are serrated so that the ducks can feed on easily filtered aquatic plant and animal species. A duck shoot has always been a popular occupation of people who enjoy hunting for gain, especially when you are shooting these birds on the wing. A duck cannot fly when it is molting, and it normally molts before the duck group’s migration to a warmer climate.


Outdoor Cooking - Meat and Poultry Grilling, Roasting and Braising Tips and Techniques

Outdoor Cooking - Meat and Poultry Grilling, Roasting and Braising Tips and Techniques

Author: Dueep J. Singh

Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books

Published: 2015-02-09

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1310510016

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Outdoor Cooking - Meat and Poultry Grilling, Roasting and Braising Tips and Techniques Table of Contents Introduction Wooden Chips for Smoking How to Build Up a Charcoal Fire How to Grill a Steak Making the Perfect Marinade Sauce Béarnaise Hollandaise Sauce Grilling Other Items of Food Sausages Good – for – Grilling Vegetables Koftas Potatoes Pork Spare Ribs Charcoal grilled Liver Charcoal Grilled Kidneys Grilled Lamb Horseradish and Applesauce Steak with Pepper Hungarian Steak with Paprika Appendix Rice Pilaf Conclusion Author Bio- Introduction A person who enjoys good food and go is on the lookout for new techniques which are going to impart flavor to juicy roasts, – especially that of meat – is definitely going to be interested to know all about grilling, roasting, and braising tips and techniques followed throughout the world. Some of them are traditional, some of them are comparatively modern or we can say 21st century innovations. For example, the traditional charcoal heating vessel in Japan called a Hibachi is now often used to grill or barbecue pieces of meat. In the same manner, barbecues, which were once done on an open fire, are now done under an electric grill. An outdoor grill is going to keep us out of the kitchen and also it satisfies some savage atavistic instinct in us which makes us crave juicy steaks, barbecued pieces of meat, roasted and grilled and charcoal burned medium rare or over cooked bite sized pieces of steak ever so often. It is the time of the hibachi and the barbecue. So if you have already heard all the unwanted advice given to you by diehard cooks, especially on matters of charcoal fires and wooden chips, here is some more advice, based on experience and time-tested cooking techniques done outdoors.


Grandma’s Natural Remedies and Ancient Herbal Beauty Recipes - Natural Remedies and Beauty Recipes From Your Kitchen And Garden

Grandma’s Natural Remedies and Ancient Herbal Beauty Recipes - Natural Remedies and Beauty Recipes From Your Kitchen And Garden

Author: John Davidson

Publisher: JD-Biz Corp Publishing

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1310510148

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Grandma’s Natural Remedies and Ancient Herbal Beauty Recipes Natural Remedies and Beauty Recipes From Your Kitchen And Garden Table of Contents Introduction Rules for Staying Healthy [With My Views, Opinions and Experience.] Remedies for Different Ailments Piles Hemorrhoids cream Constipation Flatulence What Is Black Salt? Migraine Oh, Those Pearlies… (Tooth and mouth care) Loose gums Pyorrhea Ulcers in your mouth Drooling/Excess salivation Toothache powder Sensitive teeth The Magic Of Face Masks How to Make Your Own Personalized Face Masks? Masks for a dry skin Tomato mask What is Fuller’s Earth? Orange mask Masks for an oily skin Honey mask. Cucumber mask Appendix: How to make salty lassi to prevent dehydration in summer Mattha – spicy lassi Recipe- How to make jalebis dripping in sugar syrup How to make Desi Ghee (clarified butter). How to make Rose water (Gulab Jal) Conclusion Author Bio Introduction Somebody asked me once why I did not become a doctor and then join the Defense Services as a Doctor like the majority of my family members? Here was I with an easily obtained Degree in Natural Sciences and all my knowledge - garnered during a peripatetic childhood and youth-about natural remedies, ancient medicine and natural healing processes. The medical or the engineering fields were the only options left for good students, during the time I was at University. And I give them my stock answer, which I consider logical and sensible, “If I become a doctor, I will be giving my patients chemical-based medicine, and I will just be curing their bodies. On the other hand, if I stick to my habit of learning more about natural remedies and ancient remedies, I will be curing their bodies, as well as fighting the disease from the root onwards.” My grandmother had learned about natural remedies and beauty recipes from her grandmother, and this wisdom was passed down the ages, from mother to daughter. For millenniums, every mother in every ancient civilization taught her daughters the rudimentary art of survival and staying beautiful and youthful with fruits, vegetables, spices, and herbs. This is now considered to be alternative medicine by doctors in the West. But this was the medicine with which people survived through centuries and stayed healthy. So if you believe in natural remedies, and naturopathic treatments, the cures are right around you. But many of us would rather go to a doctor and get some expensive medicine. The side effect of that medicine is going to be that some other part of our system is going to get affected. After that we go back to the doctor again and get some medicine to treat that side effect. That medicine produces another side effect. This is going to be your way of living for the rest of your life. However, if you eat natural medicines, you are never going to suffer from any sort of side effects. That is because natural products are more tuned to your body’s systems and natural needs, than chemical drugs are. Say no to chemical drugs as far as possible For all those who have read Lloyd C Douglas’ Magnificent Obsession and liked it, Mr. Douglas had some more words spoken by another of his popular characters, in “Disputed Passage”. That doctor said something on the lines of – it is not our duty to just cure the body. We have to cure the mind and spirit too and heal them”, much to the disgust of doctor Tubby Forrester, who considered every human to be a machine which needed to be put right, and where did emotions and spirit and soul come into this curing process? At the end of the story, Dr. Forrester had to accept the fact that human beings had to be treated by doctors who understood their psychological, mental, spiritual and emotional makeup. Unfortunately, this is not being done today, because doctors are harried, and have to see a number of patients till the end of a day.