Grandma’s Home Tips


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This book is a collection of formulas based on home remedies like fruits, vegetables, spices and surrounding plants. We all know the names of these herbs, but we do not know their medicinal properties. By this book, everybody will be able to know and understand the properties and curative effects of such herbs.







Grandma's Tiny House


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Chicago Public Library’s 2017 Best of the Best Books selection "A fine addition to book collections about families, food, counting, and joyous gatherings" — The Horn Book This sweet, rhyming counting book introduces young readers to numbers one through fifteen as Grandma’s family and friends fill her tiny house on Brown Street. Neighbors, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and grandkids crowd into the house and pile it high with treats for a family feast. But when the walls begin to bulge and nobody has space enough to eat, one clever grandchild knows exactly what to do.




Grandma’s Household Hints and Recipes Using Time Tested Economical Tips in Your Home


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Grandma’s Household Hints and Recipes Using Time Tested Economical Tips in Your Home Time tested old tips and recipes for a 21st Century Householder TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction In the Kitchen Spreading hard butter Prevent Glasses From Breaking Opening stubborn bottle tops Cooking with green vegetables Treat burns Making bread and cookie crumbs instantly Making self rising flour Making pie crust flaky Making pickled onion and cucumber in vinegar Separating egg whites from yolks Pungent fishy smell Keeping fruit and vegetables fresh How to open a coconut or crack pecan nuts? Sugar syrup making. Keep your refrigerator sweet Stains under the nails Straining soup without clogging Peeling carrots Best way of slicing bacon Keep cream from curdling Get more juice out of lemons Mixing board slab Skinning tomatoes easily Absorbing Extra Salt in the Food Onions, onions, onions Tenderize meat Testing mushrooms Stop fish from breaking up when frying: How to remove a cake without its breaking up Preventing rice grains from sticking Getting rid of pests Flies Cockroaches Get rid of moths Get rid of rats and mice Prevent Boiling Eggs from Cracking Home remedies Pimple remedy Cough Gastric trouble Nausea Insomnia remedy Sprains In the House Fresh paint smell Keeping flowers fresh Removing grease stains on wallpaper Cleaning Glass Panes Protection Against Spilled Water on bed Sofa cushions stuffing For Clogged Lavatory Basins Clean Bath Tub and sink To Clean Mirrors To Clean and Purify a Sponge Lemon clothes whitener Remove scorch stains from white clothes Cutting old glass bottles without cutting yourself Sagging cane chairs Uses of velveteen Thawing out icy steps Using Plaster of Paris to Mend Walls Stain removing hints Fruit, tea, wine and coffee stains Indelible ink stains Grease stains from white woolens Remove Perspiration Stains Mud Stains Blood stains Remove mildew Car grease stains Wax stains Tar Spots Iodine Stains Blueberry stains Rust stains Ink stains To Remove Ink from linen after it has dried in Ink on Carpet Conclusion Author Bio Introduction I began looking at grandma’s household hints when I saw that most of us were using chemical based cleaners to clean our greasy kitchen utensils every morning and evening. Not only was this bad for our general health, because there could be a side effect due to any possible residue of chemicals which had not been washed away during the last rinsing. This is why this collection of grandma’s household hints, is going to be very useful for all those people who prefer natural or easily available remedies, and solutions available right there in the kitchen or gardens. Apart from your home and kitchen, you are going to find long forgotten hints, which were used by your and my grandma to get rid of stains, preserve clothes from pests, and other tips, which may sound very amusing and surprising in this day and age. But you should remember that grandma was brought up in times when she had to watch every penny of grandpa’s limited income and make it stretch until it screeched. That is why, she was more prone to using her own natural good sense, inborn shrewdness, or knowledge passed to her from her own grandmother, friends, relatives, and from her neighbors too. In fact, they used to meet once in a while, and exchange household tips, which may have gone something like this “Oh, Mrs…., I have found it so easy to remove stains from my hands, by just rubbing a lemon over them, and I prevent chapping by drying my hands after I have done the washing and then rubbing a pinch of starch all over the surface, ”all the while waving those same unchapped stainless hands in the air.




Grandma’s Natural Remedies and Ancient Herbal Recipes


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Grandma’s Natural Remedies and Ancient Herbal Recipes Table of Contents Introduction Grandma’s Herbal Decoctions Cough/Cold Cure Cramps and Joint Pain Banana diet Neem Remedy Lemon Remedy Fenugreek Cure Fenugreek Poultice Fenugreek Potato Recipe Tomato Tip Rheumatic Pain Massage oil for Rheumatism Basil Toothpaste for Keeping Your Teeth Healthy Constipation Remedy Gulqand-Rose Jam How to Collect Wild Rose Petals When Is This Jam Normally Made Slow Sun Method Fungal Infections in Nails Eczema Honey and Onion Mix Hiccup Cure Conclusion Appendix Making Desi Ghee Author Bio Introduction Grandma was a great believer in natural remedies and cures. She knew that herbs and other plant products, were amazingly efficient, and effective in getting rid of minor ailments, which would be the lot and portion of her large family. That is why she used all those nostrums, infusions, decoctions, and other herbal products which had been passed on to her by her grandma and so on down the ages. So here is another collection of grandma’s natural remedies and ancient herbal recipes to keep you healthy, as well as beautiful. All these products are easily available right in your garden or in your kitchen. Best of all, they have no aftereffects and they have no side effects. That is because all these products are completely hundred percent natural. Why are so many people going back to natural remedies and ancient herbal recipes, in the 21st century? That is because they have found that chemical-based drugs and medicines have a short-term effect. They may also come accompanied with toxic effects, and side effects. So you are going to find yourself suffering from these long-term aftereffects. However, that is definitely not the case when you are taking natural remedies, which have been made with hundred percent natural products. And that is what grandma did. She gathered all the natural products available in her garden, or easily available in the woods, when she went rambling out gathering herbs, and brought them home. These were then used, to cure a number of ailments. Some of them seem rather drastic, but you need to remember that grandma was more of an experimenter. She knew that there was one product in these herbal combinations which did all the magic. The rest were just “filling.”




Thrifty Household


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Red wine on the carpet? Coffee stain on your white t-shirt? Candlewax on the tablecloth? This book will save you time and money on hundreds of everyday household problems, with advice on everything from unblocking a sink (if you own a tennis ball but not a plunger) to making your oven sparkle without any toxic chemicals. Teenagers left a tissue in the laundry? No need for yelling: The Country Women's Association of Victoria Inc. has a trick to deal with it effortlessly. Bothered by summer flies in your kitchen, mozzies at your outdoor dining table or moths in your wardrobe? The Country Women's Association of Victoria Inc. shows you how get rid of them naturally and make your home smell great at the same time. The advice is simple, the wisdom is tested and the tools are found in pretty much every kitchen, laundry, garage or shed: lemon juice, vinegar, essential oils, bicarbonate of soda, salt, methylated spirits. Most are environmentally friendly and all are thrifty. Over 1000 hints and tips for the kitchen, bathroom, laundry, car, Christmas, clothing, craft, creepy crawlies, DIY, gardening, floors, food, cleaning EVERYTHING, hair care, health and beauty remedies, ironing, home decorating, jewellery, knitting, pets, sewing, shoes, silver, storage and stain-removing.




Grandma’s Easy to Use Tips In the Kitchen and Outdoors


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Grandma’s Easy to Use Tips In the Kitchen and Outdoors Volume 7 Table of Contents Introduction How To Fix Things In The Kitchen Kitchen Tips Getting Rid Of Onion Fumes Chewing Gum Chilling bottles Really Quickly Wooden Cloth Hanger And Magazine Rack Muffin Tray As Sauce Server Making Pasta Primavera superfast Cake Fallen Apart? Forgot to Defrost The Butter? All Right, All Right, the Soup Has Boiled over! Over Salted Soup Mushy Vegetables Very Bland Dish Ran Out Of Bread Crumbs Jelly Turned Watery Emergency culinary Doctoring Items Instant Soup Gravy making – When to Put in Spices Perpetual and Permanent Icepack Using Drinking Straws Effectively Reheating Leftovers in the Microwave Burnt Pies Too Spicy Main Dish Keeping Your Wine Cool Getting Rid of Wasps Getting Rid of Bottle Labels Sunburned Regulating Your Diet Resharpening Your Scissors Health Getting Rid of Pimples Chemical Reaction of Metals to Skin Bronchitis Radish Cure Herbal Tea for Colds Tooth Ache Cure For Those Suffering from Arthritis Get Rid of Chiggers Curing Tonsillitis Getting Rid of Vertigo or Migraine Preventing Burning Fat Spills In the Garden – Get Rid of Aphids Sowing Small Seeds Uniformly Protecting Your Grape Crop from Birds Naphthalene Balls Remedy Getting Rid of Ants Basil and Mint Leaves Lavender Ant Repulser Stick Destroying an Ant Nest Mosquito Bites Tobacco Remedy Soda Bicarbonate Mint Toothpaste for Mosquito Bites Getting Rid of Cellulite Lemon Almond Oil Cream Olive Oil/Cider Vinegar Lotion What Is Sisal- You May Ask Ivy Leaves for Getting Rid of Cellulite Conclusion Author Bio Introduction Grandma was not only a good household manager, taking care of her large family, on a limited budget, but she also needed to be a good cook and housekeeper. That is why, she used her experience and knowledge, to make sure that she learned all the easiest shortcuts, which would prevent her from throwing away items which were damaged, including clothes, food and other items around the house and garden. Consider this damage control done by grandma. Grandma was the first recycler. Dresses were handed down from child to child, and if there was no child of that particular age, and that dress size, it was handed over to another member of the family where the dress could be utilized through more years of wear and tear. After the dress was torn to nearly rags and tatters, she used the cloth for stuffing cushions and pillows or for patching other dresses. This may sound extremely laughable to our world, where there is plenty, and we can throw away or just give away things, when we think they are getting old, but these were the ways in which household managers – the females – were brought up in the East and the West down the centuries. Waste not want not, was their motto. So enjoy reading through these collected damage control tips, and techniques, which are going to help you keep healthy, fit, your house pest free and other techniques, all brought to you down the ages and time-tested. Let us start with the kitchen. The maximum number of accident, sickness at home and the kitchen somehow seems to be the gunpoint. Culinary mishaps take place all the time, there. But when they do, there should be no need to panic. There is a solution to every problem, if you do not fall into attitudes of hysteria and shock at every little disaster. And I know a few men and women who enjoy what is known in the 20th century as “creating.” So instead of acting like a prima donna Cordon Bleu chef, you can follow something my grandmother said, “there are absolutely no problems, there are only imaginative solutions.” Especially in matters of these things happening when you are entertaining. How to Fix Things in the Kitchen?




Grandma’s Natural Remedies and Ancient Herbal Beauty Recipes - Natural Remedies and Beauty Recipes From Your Kitchen And Garden


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Grandma’s Natural Remedies and Ancient Herbal Beauty Recipes Natural Remedies and Beauty Recipes From Your Kitchen And Garden Table of Contents Introduction Rules for Staying Healthy [With My Views, Opinions and Experience.] Remedies for Different Ailments Piles Hemorrhoids cream Constipation Flatulence What Is Black Salt? Migraine Oh, Those Pearlies… (Tooth and mouth care) Loose gums Pyorrhea Ulcers in your mouth Drooling/Excess salivation Toothache powder Sensitive teeth The Magic Of Face Masks How to Make Your Own Personalized Face Masks? Masks for a dry skin Tomato mask What is Fuller’s Earth? Orange mask Masks for an oily skin Honey mask. Cucumber mask Appendix: How to make salty lassi to prevent dehydration in summer Mattha – spicy lassi Recipe- How to make jalebis dripping in sugar syrup How to make Desi Ghee (clarified butter). How to make Rose water (Gulab Jal) Conclusion Author Bio Introduction Somebody asked me once why I did not become a doctor and then join the Defense Services as a Doctor like the majority of my family members? Here was I with an easily obtained Degree in Natural Sciences and all my knowledge - garnered during a peripatetic childhood and youth-about natural remedies, ancient medicine and natural healing processes. The medical or the engineering fields were the only options left for good students, during the time I was at University. And I give them my stock answer, which I consider logical and sensible, “If I become a doctor, I will be giving my patients chemical-based medicine, and I will just be curing their bodies. On the other hand, if I stick to my habit of learning more about natural remedies and ancient remedies, I will be curing their bodies, as well as fighting the disease from the root onwards.” My grandmother had learned about natural remedies and beauty recipes from her grandmother, and this wisdom was passed down the ages, from mother to daughter. For millenniums, every mother in every ancient civilization taught her daughters the rudimentary art of survival and staying beautiful and youthful with fruits, vegetables, spices, and herbs. This is now considered to be alternative medicine by doctors in the West. But this was the medicine with which people survived through centuries and stayed healthy. So if you believe in natural remedies, and naturopathic treatments, the cures are right around you. But many of us would rather go to a doctor and get some expensive medicine. The side effect of that medicine is going to be that some other part of our system is going to get affected. After that we go back to the doctor again and get some medicine to treat that side effect. That medicine produces another side effect. This is going to be your way of living for the rest of your life. However, if you eat natural medicines, you are never going to suffer from any sort of side effects. That is because natural products are more tuned to your body’s systems and natural needs, than chemical drugs are. Say no to chemical drugs as far as possible For all those who have read Lloyd C Douglas’ Magnificent Obsession and liked it, Mr. Douglas had some more words spoken by another of his popular characters, in “Disputed Passage”. That doctor said something on the lines of – it is not our duty to just cure the body. We have to cure the mind and spirit too and heal them”, much to the disgust of doctor Tubby Forrester, who considered every human to be a machine which needed to be put right, and where did emotions and spirit and soul come into this curing process? At the end of the story, Dr. Forrester had to accept the fact that human beings had to be treated by doctors who understood their psychological, mental, spiritual and emotional makeup. Unfortunately, this is not being done today, because doctors are harried, and have to see a number of patients till the end of a day.




Grandma's Frugal Meals - Easy tips, techniques and old-time dishes for healthy eating


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Grandma’s Frugal Meals - Easy tips, techniques and old-time dishes for healthy eating Table of Contents Introduction Grandma’s Tips for Food Substitutions How to Make Perfect Yogurt Meat Choosing the right meat To Buy Storing Meat Baked Meat Patties Meat patty Variations How to Cure Your Own Hams Other Food Found Outdoors Rhubarb Jelly Sassafras Jelly Dandelion Greens Luncheon Corn Making Traditional Cornpone Corn Cakes Vegetables How to Store Vegetables Preparing Vegetables for Cooking Steaming Vegetables/Meat Cooking Frozen Vegetables Cooking Canned Vegetables How to Prepare Salads Tossed Salads Cole Slaw Coleslaw Dressing What Is Salad Dressing? Potato Salad Potato Salad Dressing Traditional Mayonnaise Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Knowing what to cook was as important as knowing how to cook, for grandma. She also learned how to make the best of whatever was in front of her, from her grandmother, and so on for centuries. Millenniums ago, her ancestors when gathering in the woods for herbs and vegetables while the menfolk of the family trapped and hunted for meat, game and anything else edible and delicious. It was then grandma’s many times great-grandmother’s job to make all these ingredients into something delicious and healthy as well as palatable and nourishing. So she used her instinct and her creativity to make delicacies with the ingredients available at hand. Although science-fiction already has stories about scientists making complete little nutritional packages in the shape of pills that are going to take the shape of food in the coming centuries, we are very fortunate that we do not have to face that sort of blandness in our meals today. We still have the good fortune of going to the nearest market or the nearest organic garden and collecting fresh greens, as well as herbs. We have plenty of fresh meat at hand. And best of all, we have all the ingredients to make good wholesome food. We only hope, judging by the pleasure most of us get from eating, the preparation, cooking and serving of this nutritious food is going to be a human activity which is going to be around for a long time. But most of us cannot afford to have some of the more exotic ingredients, of which we dream. Either they are not available to us in our city. Or perhaps they are beyond our budget. Unfortunately, for a large percentage of people all over the world, budget constraints are the reason why they have to make do with makeshift meals instead of eating what nature intended for them – good wholesome, natural ingredients. Grandma was a frugal person. She lived in a time when the dollars earned by grandpa had to be stretched in such a manner that the whole family could be fed and fed well. Times changed and times of prosperity came along, and the eating habits of the whole family changed. Instead of two or three healthy meals in a day, there was food aplenty and the whole family could now afford to eat whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, and in large quantities. This naturally gave rise to problems including obesity. Also, by not regulating the meal intake as well as the quality of the meals, the quality of the general health of grandma’s children deteriorated as time went by. However, the circle of financial constraints has gone and come around again and the time for tightening belts and looking at our budgets has become the top priority. A majority of us all over the world again are looking for ways and means in which we can get the proper nutrition in the form of proteins, vitamins, minerals and energy, which our bodies required to keep functioning in a healthy manner.




A Beginner’s Guide to Home Winemaking - Tips and Techniques for Growing and Using Fruit Vines and Herbs for Home Consumption


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A Beginner’s Guide to Home Wine-making Tips and Techniques for Growing and Using Fruit Vines and Herbs for Home Consumption Table of Contents Introduction Growing Grape Vines Preparation of the soil Planting your vine Maintenance Pruning your vines Protecting Your Vines. Harvesting your grapes Making homemade Wines What is wine How to Make Wine Equipment Needed For Winemaking Don’ts When You Are Making Wine Steps in Home Winemaking Preparation of the Fruits and Vegetables Extraction of Juice Making the Fermentation Mixture Fermentation Racking into Jars Artificial Clearing Fining Racking off into bottles and storing Maturing Serving wine Choosing the Best Wines Varieties and Recipes Winemaking recipes Apple Wine Beetroot Wine Blackberry Wine Blackcurrant Wine Elderberry Elderflower Wine Grapes Orange Wine Raisin Wine Dandelion Wine Conclusion Author Bio Introduction According to the ancient Greeks, it was a Demi-God, Dionysius, who taught them the pleasures of making wine and drinking it. No wonder he was always shown with grapevine leaves around his head. The Romans called him Bacchus and also Eleutherios, which meant the Liberator. The idea was those taking part in celebrating his existence were free from care and worry. That was because they drank freely of the fruit of the grape during their Bacchanals. A Greek friend told me that according to Greek legend, Dionysius was supposed to have come to India, and Alexander the great during his conquest entered an Eastern city called Nysa , of which the inhabitants told him of its raising by this demi-God. He taught them practices which were incorporated in their own social rituals and festivals. Ah, well, that is a good myth, but then wine was definitely not unknown in the East. It was one of the first gourmet pleasures discovered and appreciated for millenniums. So if this demigod came to the Indian subcontinent he would have been fed Madira or Soma Rasa -the ancient and traditional drink of the gods! The names Dennis, Denise and Dion are derivatives from this original Greek name. So for all of us who would like to raise a toast to the gods in a glass of homemade wine, this book is going to teach you how you can grow vines very successfully in sunny atmospheres. After that, it is going to teach you how to make wines for home consumption. If you look at wine making practices, which are being practiced today, it is a very scary and complicated process. This is because of our usage of complex and complicated tools. The practices I am going to teach you have been in use for centuries. You are not going to be buying expensive tools. You are going to be making wine, the traditional way.