We Don't Have to Buy It Cos We Can Make It Thread!
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| 51 | Bath Cleaner: Cut a lemon in half and dip the cut surface in a little salt in a saucer. Rub over the surfaces of the bath, and rinse well with cold water. juliewn - 2008-07-26 16:37:00 |
| 52 | Home-Made Cough Mixture: Mix equal quantities of honey, vegetable oil and freshly squeezed citrus juice - orange, lemon, grapefruit, tangelo, etc.. Mix well to dissolve the honey. Use 1/2 tsp 4 hourly for babies, 1 tsp 4 hourly for toddlers, and as needed for school aged children to adults. I make this in a sipper-type bottle - place the lid on, make sure the opening is shut, and shake well to dissolve the honey. Shake lightly before taking a sip to soothe a sore throat. This will keep at least three days, then make a new mixture to ensure freshness. This was a Plunket recipe that I've seen in a number of Plunket books, from as long ago as the late 1950's. juliewn - 2008-07-26 16:44:00 |
| 53 | Breadcrumbs What an awesome thread - right now I have slices of homemade bread drying out in the oven at about 140 for an hour and half. When cool I will put them into a plastic bag a few at a time and crush them with a rolling pin, then store in an airtight container. Yummy breadcrumbs for all dishes, much more flavour than tasteless bought ones. Thanks for all your ideas!! spiraldesign - 2008-07-26 16:44:00 |
| 54 | Hi Spiraldesign.. and thank you.. :-) Even the smell of home-made bread crumbs is so much better.. Molenberg type breads are great for them too, and for making stuffings.. adds a little extra chew or crunch! juliewn - 2008-07-26 16:49:00 |
| 55 | Home-Made Stuffing: Place in a microwave proof bowl 25gms butter, 1/3 cup currants (optional), 1 small finely chopped onion and 1 or 2 tsps fresh or dried herbs to your taste - sage, thyme, lemon thyme, etc..etc.. Cover and zap until the butter is melted, stir and leave to stand while you prepare the bread. I use Molenberg Soy and Linseed bread - or use your favourite bread.. about 1/3 to 1/2 a loaf - cut or whizzed finely. Add this to the butter mix, and stir in. Add one egg and mix well. You can add another egg if too dry. Fill your chicken and roast as usual. Sliced dried apricot's would be a nice change too, or add finely grated lemon or orange zest to your stuffing. juliewn - 2008-07-26 17:02:00 |
| 56 | Stuffing Variations: To cook extra stuffing, double or triple, etc.. the stuffing recipe. Use some of the mix to stuff chicken, turkey, duck, etc.. and press the rest firmly into a lightly greased oven dish. Cover with foil and bake for 15 minutes at 180°C. Leave the foil on and cook 5 minutes more if you don't want a crunchy topping, or for a crunchy topping, remove the foil and cook about another 5 minutes till the top is golden and crunchy. Cut into squares or wedges to serve. This can also be baked in lightly greased muffin pans, so individual muffin sized stuffing 'cakes' are able to be served.. juliewn - 2008-07-26 17:10:00 |
| 57 | French Mustard: Mix 1 tablespoon mustard powder, 1 dessertspoon ( or to your taste) curry powder, 1 tsp brown sugar, a pinch of salt, and mix with a little cold strong tea, or a blend of white vinegar and water. Very tasty served with Pickled Pork, Corned Beef, or Ham.. juliewn - 2008-07-26 18:03:00 |
| 58 | Hi juliewn..... Absolutely Marvellous !!!!! valentino - 2008-07-26 18:44:00 |
| 59 | Hi Valentino.. thanks.. :-) I hope there are some goodies you would like to try, and I'm sure you would have lots of recipes to add.. I always look for your posts in threads, and always enjoy your recipes.. I hope you're safe there tonight, with this storm happening.. take care.. juliewn - 2008-07-26 19:25:00 |
| 60 | Hi Juliewn, thanks for all these. I have been asked to make a list of things like this for the ladies in my church so have been busy cutting and pasting from here, the household hints thread and the budgets who needs them thread. Really appreciate people posting all these hints etc. Thank you. cautis - 2008-07-26 19:31:00 |
| 61 | Hi Cautis.. ? you're most welcome.. I hope they're of help to the ladies there.. juliewn - 2008-07-26 20:34:00 |
| 62 | Thought we could also add some homemade beauty things to save money, will copy some from the Beauty thread :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:35:00 |
| 63 | Oops.. the question mark was a smiley face made by holding down the Alt key and pressing the number 1 on my keyboard.. on posting, it changed to a question mark! juliewn - 2008-07-26 20:35:00 |
| 64 | From m41 in the Beauty thread... MY FOOT PAMPER WARM WATER IN A BOWL AND PUT IN, 2T EPSOM SALTS AND A FEW DROP OF PEPERMINT OIL ,GRAB A TOWEL AND FUFA, PUT FEET IN....RELAX THEN LUFA FEET WASH OFF AND DRY. MASSAGE WITH CLOVE OIL OR FOOT LOTION OF CHOICE TO MAKE CLOVE OIL PLACE A FEW CLOVES IN A GLASS JAR POUR OLIVE OIL OVER AND LAEAVE IN A COOL PLACE FOR 2WEEKS REALLY GOOD TO PUT ON BEFORE BED TIME WITH SOCKS AS A OVERNIGHT FOOT CONDITIONER. jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:36:00 |
| 65 | From m41 in the Beauty thread... face masks can be made with jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:36:00 |
| 66 | Another one from M41 face masks can be made with jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:37:00 |
| 67 | From the-archer in the Beauty thread.. Bath bombs jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:38:00 |
| 68 | Also from the-archer.. Milk bath soak jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:38:00 |
| 69 | This is mine, Miss 13 loves it.. HOMEMADE LIPGLOSS.. jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:39:00 |
| 70 | CHOCOLATE SAUCE.. 1 tab butter, 1 tab gold syrup, 1 tsp van ess, 2 tabs cocoa, 1 cup hot water, 1/2 cup sugar. Chuck all in pot, stir till boiling, make up a mix of cornflour/water and add while stirring to thicken to desired consistency, cool or serve warm. This is better than buying it because most will have above ingred in pantry to whip up on a whim! Nice on profiteroles, ice cream, banana split, sundaes, the list is endless. With 5 of us, I'm ashamed to say I double it... :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:44:00 |
| 71 | QUICK BACON/MUSH SAUCE FOR PASTA.. Cook 6 rashers and 1 crushed clove garlic for a few mins. Drain. Heat in that pan 25g butter, add 1 chop onion, 125g button mush, chopped, the bacon/garlic mix, 2 tabs worchestire sauce and 1 cup thickened cream, simmer till thick and pour over pasta :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:47:00 |
| 72 | Hi Tracey :-).. these are great thanks.... I'm guessing Jenni - my Miss 18 - will like the lipgloss.. she's a committed vanilla fan so it won't be hard to guess which flavour she'll use.. thanks for the recipe.. hope you're all safe there tonight.. it's getting quite stormy here now.. take care.. juliewn - 2008-07-26 20:48:00 |
| 73 | LEMON CHEESE.. 125g butter, 1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup lemon juice, grated rind of 3 lge lemons, 4 eggs. Place butter, sug, rind and juice in m/wave bowl. Uncovered approx 3 mins, stir halfway. Beat eggs into mix and do in 30 sec bursts up to 5 mins till thick, cool and put in 2 small jars, nice on toast, in muffins, on a sponge, mmmmm :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:50:00 |
| 74 | Lemon & Barley Water 1 cup pearl barley, 3 litres water, 4 lemon's, 4 cups sugar. Place the barley in a saucepan with the water. Finely peel the skin from the lemons with a vege peeler, and add to the barley mix. Bring to a boil and simmer for one hour. Strain through a sieve. Return the liquid to the pot, and add the sugar and the juice from the lemons. Simmer until the sugar is dissolved. Cool and place into a bottle (a 3 litre juice bottle is fine) and chill. To use, pour some into a glass, and add water, soda water or lemonade to your taste... and enjoy.. juliewn - 2008-07-26 20:50:00 |
| 75 | Hey julie, thanks yep, it is popular in this house and Kelly likes to make several small pots of diff colours/flavours and even my Jenna (4) has a couple for herself and thinks she is the bees knees lol. Safe here in Feilding but just windy and cold, have had the fire roaring all day, chewing thru the wood lol, saw pictures of the damage up North on the news, so scary, keep safe! Tracey :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:55:00 |
| 76 | CHEESE SPREAD FOR SAMMIES... This is like the roll up recipe but is nice as a sammie filling with other ingredients too - 1 pkt Maggi onion soup mix, 500g tasty cheese (I just use mild, tasty too dear for me!), 400g tim carnation evaporated milk. Heat all till melted and thick (slowly), store in jars in the fridge and use as required :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 20:57:00 |
| 77 | This message was deleted. cookessentials - 2008-07-26 20:58:00 |
| 78 | HOMEMADE GINGER BEER... 4.2 litres water, 500g sugar, 1 tsp ground ginger, 1 tsp lemon ess, 1/2 tsp tartaric acid, 1/2 tsp citric acid, 1/2 tsp dried yeast (DYC). Mix the yeast with 1 xtra tab sugar and 1/2 xtra cup lukewarm water 7 HOURS before brewing. In large stock pot, boil a litre of water with the sugar and ginger, Add remaining water, ess and acids then the yeast mix. Use plastic coke bottles, fill them up, put 3 raisins in each bottle. This is READY IN 7 DAYS - as soon as the raisins have risen to the top. Put top on tight and leave in cool, dark place :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:04:00 |
| 79 | PLUM SAUCE.. this is my Mum's sorry, so old measurements! 3lb plums, 1 pint vinegar, 1 1/2 pounds sugar, 1 dssp all spice, 1 dssp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper. Tie the all spice in a bit of muslin, boil all the rest tog till pulp leaves side of plums, strain and bottle :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:08:00 |
| 80 | PICKLED ONIONS.. One of my fav things much to husband's disgust and I have never tried better.. 1 tab plain salt, 2 cup sugar, 1 tsp greggs chillies, 1 dssp greggs peppercorns, 1200ml brown vinegar. Place all in pot and boil 10 mins, strain (if you don't strain, those chillies and peppers will blow your face off lol) and pour over previously peeled pickling onions. Here's the best bit - READY IN 7 DAYS - oh yeah, no waiting for weeks like some. I do 3X this recipe and I use 4kgs pick onions and it makes approx 6X 1 litre jars of onions, just heaven! :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:13:00 |
| 81 | BUBBLE MIX.. Here's one for the kids - 1/2 cup detergent, 1 tsp glycerine (supermarket by cough mix), 1/2 cup water, mix well and blow! :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:14:00 |
| 82 | FRENCH DRESSING.. 3 tsp bottled garlic, 3 tsp mustard powder, 3 tabs oil, 9 tabs white vinegar, 3 dssp honey. I make this in a glass bottle and use a funnel - tip all above in bottle/jar, shake it madly, in fridge, this is easy and so nice with a summer salad :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:18:00 |
| 83 | SHERBET... 1 tsp citric acid, 1 tab tartaric acid, 1 cup icing sugar, 1 tsp baking soda, 2 tabs raro powder. Using back os spoon, grind up acids to a fine powder. Place rem ingred into a shaker and shake well, store in airtight container and take out only what you want to eat :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:22:00 |
| 84 | jenna68 yum thank you for the quick pickled onions and french dressing. Will have to try both of those. lw007 - 2008-07-26 21:25:00 |
| 85 | CONDENSED MILK.. Now, I have this recipe but have never made it, feel free to try and report back lol! 1 3/4 cups sugar, 2 cups of full cream OR whole milk powder. Dissolve the sugar in 1 cup boiling water, Stir well, cool, when cold, stir in milk powder till smooth, whisking is best, this makes more than two tins :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:25:00 |
| 86 | This message was deleted. cookessentials - 2008-07-26 21:26:00 |
| 87 | DON'T THROW OUT YESTERDAY'S SCONES.. dip quickly under cold tap and heat up in oven, yum :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:27:00 |
| 88 | This message was deleted. cookessentials - 2008-07-26 21:27:00 |
| 89 | FOR SHINY HAIR... Rinse with water that lemon leaves have been boiled in :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:28:00 |
| 90 | HAIR CONDITIONER... Made a pav??? Use the yolks for a conditioner for your hair, sounds gross but I do this and my hair comes out nice and shiny, use as for conditioner, rinse really well :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:29:00 |
| 91 | BAILEY'S IRISH CREAM... *does hula dance*, oh yeah!! 1 cup whiskey, 1/4 tsp coconut ess, 3 eggs, 300ml cream, 1 tin cond milk, 2 tsp choc ess, 2 tsp coffee ess, beat all tog and bottle. Haven't made this for years but in my teens, flatmates and I made it up by the flagon haha! :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:33:00 |
| 92 | MULLED WINE.. Another hula dance and regular recipe for the flatties - 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup lemon juice, 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup orange juice, 1 cinnamon stick, 750ml bottle cheap red wine, 12 whole cloves, orange slices. Place sug, water, cinnamon and cloves in pan, simmer 3 mins, strain the syrup and add the lemon and orange juice, heat well, add wine and heat but do not boil, Serve hot, garnished with slices of orange, serves 6. I can tell you, in my err younger days, we did NOT stuff round with the orange slices lol AND, used to make 6X that recipe in one go! :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:38:00 |
| 93 | lwoo7... yes, do try those onions, they are not insipid looking like the supermarket ones, they are dark brown and crunchy, really nice with fresh bread and cheese in a sammie *wipes drool off chin* and the dressing is great because you usually have those things in the pantry so no need to go to the shop, let me know how they went :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:41:00 |
| 94 | Have a great night all, stay warm.. and safe, off to watch the Footy now, go the ALL BLACKS!!!! :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-26 21:42:00 |
| 95 | Pfft, what a terrible game of rugby.. should have carried on typing recipes on here, how embarrasing to once again get thrashed by the Aussie's! Will type some more stuff later :o) jenna68 - 2008-07-27 07:50:00 |
| 96 | Post #76 found this by accident when making cheese toasty rolls. instead of onion soup mix try the BACON and ONION - great. Justfound this thread so will get my old thinking cap on!! doree36 - 2008-07-27 11:07:00 |
| 97 | This message was deleted. books_bop - 2008-07-27 12:57:00 |
| 98 | juliewn The Hawkes Bay Today is asking people to send in money saving hints/recipes that they will put into a special publication to help people. Not everyone around would have access to a computer & your tips could help a lot of people. You may like to send the best ones to them You go in the draw for a grocery voucher. No, I don't work for them but your recipes could be shared further. You could send an email to competitions@hbtoday.co.nz with contact details. Just a thought anyway. donald6 - 2008-07-27 13:17:00 |
| 99 | cookessentials #77 Re: Post #6 "you really MUST wash your butter thoroughly under running water until it runs clear. Butter will go rancid if ANY buttermilk residue is left in the butter." ..... Butter will go very "cheesey" but not rancid if not washed properly. Buttermilk will just deteriorate and the whole butter will smell like very bad cheese. For butter to go rancid it needs air and light. So this is why the normal NZ butter which is packed in paper, has this terrible yellow "rind" which is just rancid fat. Compare that with the Danish butter in foil which has just a little line of yellow where the paper folds are and the air came in. uli - 2008-07-27 13:42:00 |
| 100 | Hahaha I got the hundy. Great thread guys. jed - 2008-07-27 15:18:00 |
