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Show To keep peanut butter from losing its oil and getting too dry, store the jar upside down. Once it does get dry, though, you can soften it up by adding a little peanut oil, olive oil, or salad oil, and mixing it thoroughly. Or, mix some horse-radish with it and you'll have it moist again. In fact, the horse-radish improves the taste of the peanut butter so much, it's a good idea even if the peanut butter isn't too dry. If honey turns grainy before it's used up, set the container in a saucepan of hot water, with a couple of sticks of wood under the honey jar so the water can circulate under it, and let it stand for several hours. Keep tha water hot, but not boiling, and the honey should return to normal. nor-mal. Cardboard milk and butter containers can be torn into pieces which are handy to use as plate scrapers and sink cleaners. On Friday night, put a spoonful spoon-ful of dry mustard in the dishwater dish-water to remove the fishy odor from the dishes. For making roses out of rad- ' ishes and other fancy garnishes, you'll be surprised at how much handier you'll be if you use a penknife pen-knife instead of a paring knife. |