• If there is excess salt in a vegetable dish, add a ball of dough or a peeled potato and cook. Remove the dough ball or the potato after a while and the excess salt will go with it.

• Keep lemons in hot water for twenty minutes before squeezing. They will yield more juice.

• If the vegetables are not fresh, soak them in cold water to which a little lemon juice has been added. They will become fresh again.

• Muffins will slide right out of tin pans if the hot pan is first placed on a wet towel.

• Add a few drops of lemon juice while preparing sugar syrup. The impurities will collect on the surface of the syrup which you can then remove.

• Dip nuts in milk before placing them on top of the cakes or biscuits to prevent them from falling off while baking.

• Coat raisins or other chopped dry fruits with dry flour before adding them to the batter of cakes or puddings. This will prevent them from sinking to the bottom while baking.

• Chapattis would come out very soft if a little rice flour is used while rolling out the dough.

• If you have no sour cream, add one teaspoon of lemon juice to every half pint of fresh cream and stir. Let it stand for ten minutes before use.

• If you have to make cutlets in a hurry and have no breadcrumbs use semolina for coating them.