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Show itetffen Makes VI JUDGE BLAKE ffiSI Dear Vi:: Thank you for your ideas from other people to other people. I use your alcohol and window cleaner all the time and so does my daughter. About a month ago at a Retired Re-tired Senior Volunteer Council meeting, some of the members asked how I was feeling as I have had an on-going kidney infection. I told them that after eating a baker-size raw potato daily for a week, I was fine. I have taken many prescription medicines for this problem, but since eating a raw potato now and then I haven't had to see a doctor for the infection. infec-tion. The only thing I can say is, "It does work for me! No more infection" . La Donna Ford, St. George. Thanks for sharing your experience expe-rience with us, La Donna. Home remedies may not work for everyone, every-one, but, then, neither do prescription pre-scription medicines. So if a simple sim-ple remedy like eating a raw potato po-tato may help, why not try it. You can't beat the price, and no bad reactions as often happens with prescription drugs. Dear Vi: I just learned from a TV cooking school that to protect the motor of an electric mixer when it seems to be laboring, increase the speed. Such a simple sim-ple thing to do . And all the time I've been thinking you had to turn the beater off and let the motor cool. Iola Hensie, Las Vegas The other day, a friend asked me to tell her my favorite time-savers time-savers in the kitchen. After thinking think-ing a moment, these are the ones I thought of right away: Lay the lid of a spray bottle upside down on the counter and push the bottle into the lid. This is much easier than pushing the lid onto the bottle from the top Loosen stubborn lids by holding hold-ing the bottle upside down and smacking the top of the lid flatly on the floor or any hard surface. Wash pots and pans with a long handled brush dipped in suds promptly after emptying them, rinse, then turn them upside down in the sink to drain. Put them away when you come back to the sink or whenever convenient. The clean-up after a meal is so much easier when the pots and pans are already done. If you wash dishes by hand, there's no need to dry them. Rinse them in hot water and let them drain dry. Dishes are actually actu-ally more sanitary when drained this way than when dried with a towel. Later, whenever convenient, conven-ient, you can quickly put them away. We have a dishwasher, but since there are only two of us, it still seems easier to me to wash dishes by hand except when we have company. Of course, if we had a family at home, that would be different. A dishwasher is more sanitary, some say... Well, perhaps, but I feel that dishes are equally sanitary when washed by hand in a rich suds with bleach added followed by a hot water rinse. Besides, I like having them washed and put away rather than waiting unwashed in the dishwasher dish-washer until I have a full load. Speaking of bleach, I keep some in a squirt bottle near the sink with which to disinfect counter tops, the interior of the refrigerator, and to banish stains from the sink. I also keep my dish brushes, plastic scouring pads, and dishcloth in a germ-killing-and-bleaching chlorine solution. I wouldn't want to be without a plastic bottle with a squirt top full of baking soda next to the range, not after experiencing a grease fire. One squirt of baking soda and the flames are extinguished. Clean and re-arrange cupboard shelves and drawers one or two at a time along with after-meal cleanup instead of trying to do them all at once. The same with the burners on the range. By keeping at it this way, you can keep things tidy and clean a little at a time. Clean oven spills while oven is still warm. Use old socks cut open for this messy job. Also, after using a commercial oven cleaner, wipe up the worst of the "goo" with newspapers. The microwave oven is easily cleaned after letting a cup of water wa-ter boil in it for a minute or two. The steam loosens any stuck-on food so that it can easily be wiped off. I try to plan the day's dinner menu in the morning AFTER first checking the refrigerator to see what is there and what needs to be used. If meat or food is to be used from the freezer, I get it out in the morning. With my plan in mind, preparing prepar-ing the meal seems to go much better. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet. - Duncan READERS: Thanks for sharing your good ideas. Send yours to IT MAKES CENTS, 328 So 300 E. 5, St. George, Utah 84770. If used here, I'll send you $2 or a copy of "Kitchen Tricks, " "Research Tricks," or "Vinegar, the Home-maker's Home-maker's Best Friend Please state your choice. |
