| Vinegar: it flavours food, can help you lose | | | | vinegar. Allow to boil for 10 minutes. |
| weight, it can clean kitchen surfaces | | | | Strain and bottle the juice and leave to |
| brighter than bright, in fact vinegar has | | | | stand in a cool place.* Add a teaspoonful of |
| many many uses which few people realise. | | | | white vinegar to egg whites used to make |
| Here are just 35 ideas for getting the most | | | | meringue. Leave to stand for 30 seconds |
| out of a bottle of vinegar ....* Add a | | | | before whipping in the usual way. The vinegar |
| cupful of apple cider vinegar to bathwater to | | | | increases stiffness and makes meringues |
| soothe tired muscles and relieve dry itchy | | | | brilliantly white. If you run out of eggs, |
| skin and sunburn.* The tell-tale aroma of | | | | replace them with one tablespoonful of white |
| fish and onions on the hands can be removed | | | | wine vinegar per egg, as long as the recipe |
| by rubbing in neat vinegar before rinsing | | | | includes another rising agent such as |
| thoroughly in warm water.* Treat greasy hair | | | | self-raising flour.* Use hot vinegar |
| after washing to a few cupfuls of neat | | | | compresses to relieve pain from injury or |
| vinegar added to the final rinse.* Make your | | | | arthritis and rheumatism. The lotion also |
| own mint by gathering and stripping leaves | | | | benefits common sprains and strains.* Mix |
| from the stalks when dry. Tear into tiny | | | | together equal amounts of cider vinegar and |
| pieces and spread evenly in a shallow dish. | | | | cold water to produce a toner for greasy and |
| Cover with vinegar and leave for two or three | | | | combination skin. The mixture can also be |
| hours before straining and pressing leaves | | | | used as a soothing wash for tired puffy |
| lightly in a screw-top jar. Store in a cool, | | | | eyes.* In folk medicine vinegar is |
| dry place.* Make your own playdough by | | | | considered an elixir for a long healthy life |
| mixing two cupfuls of flour with one cupful | | | | and is recommended for internal and external |
| of salt, one-half cupful of water and one | | | | use. Make a daily drink from one |
| teaspoonful of vinegar. Mix the flour and | | | | tablespoonful of apple cider vinegar to a |
| salt first then slowly add water and vinegar, | | | | cupful of warm or cold water, according to |
| stirring all the time until the mixture is | | | | preference. The practice is believed to |
| stiff. Use your hands to kneed the dough. | | | | benefit the memory and to help the body fight |
| You've now got playdough that is ready to | | | | many diseases of advancing years.* Lighten |
| use. You can brighten up your playdough with | | | | age spots with a daily application of pure |
| the addition of a little food colouring.* | | | | apple cider vinegar.* If linen is badly |
| Add a few drops of vinegar to shop-bought | | | | scorched take a cupful of vinegar to which is |
| polish to improve the shine on wooden | | | | added half an ounce of soap, two ounces of |
| furniture.* Half a pint of paraffin mixed | | | | fuller's earth and the juice of one lemon. |
| with half a pint of vinegar makes a great | | | | Boil well and spread over the damaged parts. |
| cleaner and polisher for most kinds of | | | | Leave to dry and wash the linen. You'll find |
| furniture and can also be used on lino, | | | | the stain has completely disappeared!* |
| kitchen and bathroom tiles, marble and | | | | Remove mineral deposits from a steam iron by |
| paintwork.* Keep colours fast on striped | | | | filling it with equal parts of white vinegar |
| towels by washing in hot, soapy water mixed | | | | and water. Let it steam until dry before |
| with a cupful of vinegar.* Make a cleaner | | | | rinsing thoroughly with clean water.* Make |
| for brass and copper by mixing equal parts of | | | | your own airspray by mixing two cupfuls of |
| lemon juice and vinegar which should be | | | | white vinegar with one cupful of crushed |
| applied carefully and left to stand for | | | | herbs, choosing from rosemary, lavender, |
| several minutes. Polish off with a | | | | cloves, thyme or pine needles. Place the |
| fluff-free cloth.* Remove heavy dirt stains | | | | ingredients in a saucepan and boil gently for |
| from children's toys and baby hardware, | | | | 10 minutes then leave to cool. Pour into a |
| tiles and other heavy duty surfaces by using | | | | large jar with a close-fitting lid. Leave to |
| a cloth wrung out of lukewarm water to which | | | | stand for three or four weeks. Strain and add |
| a little vinegar has been added. Leave to dry | | | | the mixture to a spray container or atomiser. |
| before buffing with a clean fluff-free | | | | Use in the same way as commercial air |
| cloth.* Clean windows with a solution of two | | | | sprays.* When a dishcloth or face flannel |
| teaspoonfuls of vinegar to one pint of warm | | | | gets slimy and starts to smell, immerse it in |
| water.* Clean and polish stainless steel | | | | a solution of water and vinegar in equal |
| pans and other kitchen utensils using | | | | parts. Leave to stand overnight and in the |
| bicarbonate of soda on a cloth moistened with | | | | morning rinse thoroughly with clean water.* |
| vinegar.* Make your own fabric softener by | | | | Ink stains can be removed by soaking the |
| mixing bicarbonate of soda, vinegar and water | | | | fabric in vinegar for an hour or two before |
| (parts: 2-2-4). Add a quarter cupful of the | | | | washing in the usual way.* Hot vinegar |
| mixture to the final rinse for hand or | | | | quickly removes whitewash and distemper |
| machine washing.* Add a teaspoonful of | | | | splashes from most surfaces, including |
| vinegar to water when boiling fish to keep it | | | | fabrics.* Remove even stubborn stains from |
| firm and white.* Add a little vinegar to | | | | the inside of tea and coffee pots using a |
| water used to clean leafy vegetables. You'll | | | | mixture of equal parts of white vinegar and |
| find insects and caterpillars will float to | | | | water. Fill the pot and leave to stand for 30 |
| the surface and make cleaning easier.* To | | | | minutes before rinsing thoroughly.* Stickers |
| prevent cheese becoming mouldy, wrap it in a | | | | and their gooey remains can be removed by |
| piece of muslin which has been wrung out in | | | | soaking the article in vinegar until the |
| vinegar. If you don't have muslin try a piece | | | | pieces float free.* Remove salt stains from |
| of closely woven net instead.* To help | | | | shoes in winter by wiping them with a cloth |
| tenderise inexpensive joints of meat, pour on | | | | wrung out in a mixture of one tablespoonful |
| a little vinegar before cooking in a very | | | | of vinegar to a cupful of water.* Remove |
| slow oven.* Make your own red food colouring | | | | grime from collars and cuffs by rubbing with |
| by mixing one cupful of beetroot juice | | | | a thick paste of baking soda and vinegar in |
| (tinned or fresh) and two tablespoonfuls of | | | | equal parts. Leave to stand for half an hour |
| vinegar and water to your desired colour. | | | | before washing in the usual way.* Remove |
| Bottle and leave in a cool place.* Make your | | | | rust from bolts and other small metal objects |
| own yellow colouring by placing the dark | | | | by immersing in neat vinegar until the |
| outer skins of five onions in a saucepan with | | | | residue dissolves. |
| one cupful of water and half a cupful of | | | | |