Martha Stewart's Way:
Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice
cream drips.
MY Way:
Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone, for Pete's sake. You
are probably lying on the couch with your feet up eating it anyway.
Martha's Way:
To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the
potatoes.
MY Way:
Buy Hungry Jack Mash Potato Mix and keep it in the pantry for up to a
year.
Martha's Way:
Spray your Tupperware with nonstick cooking spray before pouring in tomato
based sauces and there won't be any stains.
MY Way:
Feed your garbage disposal and there won't be any leftovers or need for
Tupperware.
Martha's Way:
When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry
cake mix instead and there won't be any white mess on the outside of the
cake.
MY Way:
Go to the bakery. They'll even decorate it for you.
Martha's Way:
If you accidentally over-salt a dish, drop in a peeled potato and it will
absorb the excess salt.
MY Way:
If you over-salt a dish while you're cooking that's too bad.
Martha's Way:
To determine whether an egg is fresh, immerse it in a pan of cool, salted
water. If it sinks, it's fresh, but if it rises to the surface, throw it
away.
MY Way:
Eat, cook or use the egg anyway. If you feel bad later, you will know it
wasn't fresh.
Martha's Way:
To cure a headache, take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead.
The throbbing will go away.
MY Way:
Martha, dear, the only reason this works is because you can't rub a lime
on your forehead without getting lime juice in your eye, and then the problem
isn't the headache anymore; it is because your eyes burn.
Martha's Way:
Don't throw out all that leftover wine. Freeze into ice cubes for future
use in casseroles and sauces.
MY Way:
What leftover wine?
Martha's Way:
Potatoes will take food stains off your fingers. Just slice and rub potato
on the stains and rinse with water.
MY Way:
Mashed potatoes will now be replacing the antibacterial soap in the handy
dispenser next to my sink.
Martha's Way:
Place a slice of apple in hardened brown sugar to soften it.
MY Way:
Brown sugar is supposed to be soft?
Martha's Way:
Now look what you can do with Alka-Seltzer: To clean a toilet, drop two tablets
in, wait 20 min, brush and flush. To remove a stain from a vase or glass
cruet, fill with water and drop in 2 tablets. To polish jewelry, drop two
Alka-Seltzer tabs into a glass of water and immerse jewelry for two minutes.
To clean thermos bottle, fill with water and drop in 4 tabs and let sit for
an hour or more (if necessary).
MY Way:
Put your jewelry, vases and thermos in the toilet. Add a bottle of Alka-Seltzer
tabs and you have solved a whole bunch of problems at once
~Author Unknown~
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