Handy Hints
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In your Kitchen
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Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If your leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster. |
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In your Kitchen
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May Roberts sent in these uses for lemon juice - To make your own sour cream, stir in a teaspoon of lemon juice to 150mls of cream, then leave it for 30 minutes before using. Yogurt and lemon juice make a delicious marinade for BBQ chicken. Add lemon juice to your rinse water when doing dishes, it will make your glasses sparkle. |
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Mulching citrus peel through a waste disposal unit will clean and deodorize it and putting a paper towel in the bottom of a biscuit tin will keep the biscuits fresh. |
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In your Kitchen
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Gemma Lee wrote before whipping cream for deserts, add one or two tablespoons of vanilla instant pudding and the cream will stay firm for hours. |
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June wrote- to warm plates quickly, put a wet paper towel between each one and put in the microwave on high for two minutes. |
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Store opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil, it will stay fresh longer an don't get moldy. |
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A hint from Jane, combine equal parts of cottage cheese and mayonnaise, this makes a delicious reduced fat coleslaw dressing. |
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In your Kitchen
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Ivy rang with a hint for burnt saucepans. Sprinkle baking soda in the pot. Add a small amount of water. Bring to the boil and you will see it start to lift. When cool scrape off the burnt material. |
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In your Kitchen
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Miss B Cup covers a chopping board with cling wrap so she can throw away smells when she has finished chopping and also says coffee grounds make excellent mulch for indoor plants. |
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In your Kitchen
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Pauline Higgins phoned to say she always opens asparagus upside down so the tips come out of the can first. |
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Handy Hints
Every week several newspapers through out the Manawatu, Wanganui and Kapiti Coast feature our popular handy hints column. Most of these hints are sent to us from readers of the columns. The hints are collated on this page.
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Handy Hints