The Al Hasa Cookbook - 1976
- Heated vinegar makes it easy to remove paint from windows.
- Add a few drops of vinegar to your rinse water when washing plastic curtains.
- To clean plastic tile, use a few drops of vinegar in a solution of water.
- Use vinegar for removing shoe scuff marks.
- To keep your glassware gleaming, add a quarter cup of vinegar to your dishwasher.
- Use vinegar to clean spots from stainless steel kitchen equipment.
- Use vinegar to remove fly specks from walls, woodwork and picture frames.
- For headaches, saturate a folded handkerchief with white vinegar and place on forehead. Repeat when handkerchief dries.
- To free a rusted or corroded bolt, soak it in vinegar.
- To soften old paint brushes, boil them in vinegar, then wash with strong soap suds.
- Wilted vegetables freshen up when soaked in cold water and vinegar.
- To prevent black mildew from forming on the door of the refrigerator, wipe vinegar on the rubber cushion.
- Adding vinegar to a bottle of dried glue will moisten and completely renew it.
- To remove dark or burnt spots from your electric iron, rub them with vinegar and salt heated in an aluminum pan.
- Vinegar is quite good as a rise for oily hair.
- Use vinegar as in inexpensive dye for Easter eggs; a teaspoon of vinegar with each individual color in a cup of water.
- To restore moisture to hands when they have been in strong cleaning solutions, plaster, concrete or powdered detergents; rub with vinegar.
- To bring out the color in rugs and carpets, brush them up with a mixture of 1 cup white vinegar to a gallon of water.
- Vinegar eases the pain of most stings or bites and is particularly soothing on sunburn.
- Vinegar will remove scorch stains from cottons. Saturate and wash as usual.
- To greatly improve the flavor of lamb or mutton, wash it with white vinegar before baking.