The cold yolk does not shrivel. Egg yolk from the fridge is easily curdled in soups and sauces. Therefore, before use, put the egg in hot water for a while.
Yarrow before each meal. Yarrow and fennel tea strengthens the body's defenses against colds: pour a glass of cold water a teaspoon of fennel seeds and a tablespoon of yarrow and cook through 15 minutes. Drink half an hour before meals.
The apple mask firms the skin. A refreshing mask can be made from two finely grated apples (peeled) and a few drops of lemon juice. It should be applied to cleansed skin and after seven minutes. wash off with lukewarm water.
Vinegar for scales. Flowers attacked by scales should be sprayed with a vinegar solution. The proportions of the solution: on 1 liter of water 100 ml of vinegar.
Bath milk. Mix a liter of milk with half a cup of vegetable oil (best, to be olive oil) and add to the bath. As a result, very dry skin becomes soft and silky smooth again.
Condensed milk for scrambled eggs.
Scrambled eggs are especially tasty and fluffy, when the eggs are first beaten with a little condensed milk (from a can).
Flour for the baking tin. After greasing, sprinkle the baking tin with flour or finely ground breadcrumbs.. The dough will not stick to the mold and will get a delicate crust.
Sage cares for the gums. Sage tea strengthens the gums and prevents inflammation. Therefore, it is best to brush your teeth with sage tea (so often, as possible), while ensuring that it is thoroughly massaged into the gums after normal cleansing.
Aromatic oils fight bacteria.
In winter, you should take care, that the air in the apartment is properly moistened. Thanks to this, the household will be less susceptible to diseases. If you don't have a humidifier, then hang containers with water on the radiators or put wet towels on the hot ribs. You can add a few drops of lemon essential oil to the water (fights bacteria) or eucalyptus (helps with the Cathar).
When your child's winter clothes are slippery.
The most comfortable clothing for winter fun is a nylon jumpsuit or jacket and insulated pants. They are warm and do not get wet. Unfortunately, this kind of outfit (it is usually slippery) can be dangerous, when the child is playing on the icy hill. Therefore, it is worth sticking on the elbows, knee and bottom patches of coarse fabric. This way you can also protect the inside of the nylon gloves.
How to protect shoes against soaking.
It often happens, that the new shoes are soaking wet at the seams. Then you need to coat them with a thick layer of slightly heated paste, petroleum jelly or stearin. Shoes protected in this way can also be carefully heated over the stove flame, and then polish it thoroughly. It is also worth buying special warming inserts. Then the child will not complain, that his legs are cold.
What to do, so that the sweater does not feel felted.
Delicate pure wool sweaters are often felted in the wash. To avoid this, before washing, put the garment in a plastic bag and put it on 1-2 hours to the freezer. A slightly felted sweater "you can save.", by washing it in a lukewarm decoction of cooking dry beans or by soaking it through 30 minutes in cold milk.
A roux of flour can be made without the use of fat, when the flour is carefully fried until golden yellow and poured over with vegetable stock or broth.
Shoes wet in the rain will not become hard after drying, when, after stuffing them with newspapers, you rub a thick layer of saddle fat into them and leave them warm for at least 24 hours.
Always wash lettuce and vegetables from organic farming in salted water. This way you can easily get rid of the insects, caterpillars and worms, usually hard to see.
It is better to store carrots without leaves. The green parts draw a lot of moisture from the vegetable and therefore the carrots wilt faster, frowns. Before that happens, cut the parsley very close to the vegetable itself.
Noodle fat
The noodles are not overflowing, when we add some oil or butter to the water. Another benefit – do not stick together. The same is true for rice.
Water smoothes the wool
Spotted wool will straighten and can be reused, when it is wound on the board with tension, wet it and let it dry.
Espresso Coffee Chocolate While making your espresso coffee, try adding a piece of chocolate to it. In this way, the coffee will get an even better taste and aroma.
The peas do not burn
A piece of wholemeal bread in a pea soup prevents the peas from falling to the bottom and burning while cooking.
Potatoes eliminate the smell of onions
The unpleasant smell of onions from the hands and knives cannot be removed with the usual washing and rinsing. However, there is a way: before washing, hands should be rubbed with boiled potatoes, while the knife is pulled through the raw carrot.
Broccoli without oil. Broccoli should not be fried or stewed in fat, for they become stringy. It is better to boil the vegetable in a little water and then decorate it with butter or oil.
Sugar on green peas Peas does not become dull, but retains its green color during cooking, when we put a sugar cube into the pot.
The salt cleans the baking sheet
Cake, which is stuck to the sheet metal, can be removed, sprinkling salt on it, dripping with a little oil and putting on it (on 1-2 hours) damp cloth. The dough will tear off by itself.
Chloride for plank flooring
The white plank floor should be washed hot, soapy water. Some chloride may be added to the first rinse (6 g na 1 liter of water), to the second – 1 tablespoon of ammonia on 1 liter of water.
Soap for burnt-on food residues
If there are food remnants sticking to the bottom of the pan, Pour hot soapy water into the pan and set aside 12 hours.
The vinegar removes fly marks
Traces left by flies on the mirror are removed with a cloth moistened with water and vinegar.
Salt water cleans pearls
Necklaces made of artificial pearls should be immersed in salted water for several hours every few months (7 g na 1 liter of water).
The steam smoothes the velvet
Fold velvet garments inside out and hold them over the boiling water for a few minutes, and then brush it.
Vinegar for starch
To prevent starched linen from sticking together during drying, should be added to the starch 2-3 spoons of spirit vinegar.
Resin stains Place tissue underneath the resin stain, and rub the stain gently with a brush slightly moistened with turpentine. The residual dirt can be removed, rubbing them with a cotton swab with hydrogen peroxide.
Rip over steam
Felt sweaters are best washed with steam.
Salt to shine
Bed linen will have a nice shine after drying (and dried in the cold it will not freeze), when we add a handful of table salt to the starch.
Soap for plant lice It is easiest to combat asparagus and myrtle lice, by preparing the plants for a water bath with the addition of shredded gray soap.