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Show Dear Vi: Here are several household hints for your consideration: Carefully refrigerated leftover macaroni salad, depending on the ingredients, can be made into a delicious casserole. Simply add egg, milk, etc., top with buttered crumbs and bake until bubbly at 375 degrees. (Vi's comment: Potato salad, used this way also makes a nice casserole.) I keep in my freezer a mixture of flour, shortening and salt in the amount needed to make five or six pie crusts. Two cups of this mixed with three to four tablespoons of cold water is about right for a double-crust pie. To make a quick nutritious, and delicious breakfast drink for two, blend two bananas with a half cup of low-fat cottage cheese, three to four tablespoons orange-flavored breakfast drink and milk to make four cups. Instead of lemon juice, I substitute for each lemon 14 teaspoon unsweetened lemonade punch powder mixed with 14 cup water. I even make lemon pies using this mixture and it works very well. Some day I'll try making pies with some of the more exotic punch flavors. Use perfume you don't want to make scented matches (book or wooden) for your bathroom. Soak matches in perfume, let them dry for about a week. Keep them in an attractive container in your bathroom. I made two cabinets, one for jewelry and one for makeup from clear plastic utility cabinets with lots of drawers (meant for screws or nails for garage or workroom). For jewelry, I walTpapered "the outside of one to match my bedroom. For cosmetics, I painted the other one to match my bathroom cabinets. These are very handy because you can see at a glance what is in each drawer. They can also be hung on a wall if desired. Recently, when I admired a beautiful bouquet (with card attached) sitting on my sister's dining room table, she explained that it was a wedding anniversary bouquet received several years ago. As each fresh flower wilted, she had replaced it with a silk flower the same color and type so that she could keep and enjoy her anniversary bouquet indefinitely Just sign me CW Cedar City What a plethora of excellent ideas you shared with us, CW. I especially like the one about lemon punch powder because the bottled lemon juice I keep on hand sometimes spoils before it's used up. Boys and girls: the scented matches would make nice Christmas gifts for you to make for your moms, aunts, or grandmothers. Buy some inexpensive inex-pensive perfume if your moms or sisters don't have any around that they don't want. Because you sent so many ideas, CW, I'm sending you a copy of "Kitchen Tricks," and also "Vinegar, The Homemaker's Best Friend.". Dear Vi: A note to K. Wilson. A friend told me to use boiling water poured over coffee grounds to rid my freezer of the rotten meat smell. I reheated the water and coffee grounds for several days and kept the freezer door closed. The smell finally went away. J Rowley Richfield Readers, this is one more idea to try should any of us be so unfortunate as to have meat spoil in your freezers because of a power failure, or, as happened to K. Wilson, a forgotten catch of fish left in the RV. Do you need a place to hang a broom? Nail two empty spools to the broom closet wall. Hang-broom Hang-broom upside down between the spools. Brooms that are hung between use last longer than those left standing on their bristles. This is also a good idea for the brooms and other tools in the garage. For a child's room, nail a row of spools on the closet wall at the ' proper level for hanging shirts, pants, and jackets. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: (Especially for the young) "I will make important choices now that will bless me throughout my life. s 4; )f: Readers: Thanks for sharing your good ideas. Send yours to IT MAKES CENTS, 328 So. 300 E. 5, St. George, Utah, 84770. Or E-mail E-mail me (viblakeinfowest.com) If used here I'll send you $2. Or a copy of "Kitchen Tricks," or "Vinegar, the Homemaker's Best Friend." Please state your choice. These booklets are also available to others at the above address. Price: $2.50 each plus $1.10 postage. |