Although you may not realize it, simple table salt has a great number of uses other than simply seasoning your food. The following list discuss uses/benefits of salt, many of which you probably didn't realize:
1. Soak stained hankies in salt water before washing.
2. Sprinkle salt on your shelves to keep ants away.
3. Soak fish in salt water before descaling; the scales will come off easier.
4. Put a few grains of rice in your salt shaker for easier pouring.
5. Add salt to green salads to prevent wilting..
6. Test the freshness of eggs in a cup of salt water; fresh eggs sink; bad ones float.
7. Add a little salt to your boiling water when cooking eggs; a cracked egg will stay in its shell this way.
8. A tiny pinch of salt with egg whites makes them beat up fluffier.
9. Soak wrinkled apples in a mildly salted water solution to perk them up.
10. Rub salt on your pancake griddle and your flapjacks won't stick.
11. Soak toothbrushes in salt water before you first use them; they will last longer.
12. Use salt to clean your discolored coffee pot.
13. Mix salt with turpentine to whiten you bathtub and toilet bowl.
14. Soak your nuts in salt brine overnight and they will crack out of their shells whole. Just tap the end of the shell with a hammer to break it open easily.
15. Boil clothespins in salt water before using them and they will last longer.
16. Clean brass, copper and pewter with paste made of salt and vinegar, thickened with flour
17. Add a little salt to the water your cut flowers will stand in for a longer life.
18. Pour a mound of salt on an ink spot on your carpet; let the salt soak up the stain.
19. Clean your iron by rubbing some salt on the damp cloth on the ironing surface.
20. Adding a little salt to the water when cooking foods in a double boiler will make the food cook faster.
21. Use a mixture of salt and lemon juice to clean piano keys.
22. To fill plaster holes in your walls, use equal parts of salt and starch, with just enough water to make a stiff putty.
23. Rinse a sore eye with a little salt water.
24. Mildly salted water makes an effective mouthwash. Use it hot for a sore throat gargle.
25. Dry salt sprinkled on your toothbrush makes a good tooth polisher.
26. Use salt for killing weeds in your lawn.
27. Eliminate excess suds with a sprinkle of salt.
28. A dash of salt in warm milk makes a more relaxing beverage.
29. Before using new glasses, soak them in warm salty water for awhile.
30. A dash of salt enhances the taste of tea. ?
31. Salt improves the taste of cooking apples.
32. Soak your clothes line in salt water to prevent your clothes from freezing to the line; likewise, use salt in your final rinse to prevent the clothes from freezing.
33. Rub any wicker furniture you may have with salt water to prevent yellowing.
34. Freshen sponges by soaking them in salt water.
35. Add raw potatoes to stews and soups that are too salty.
36. Soak enamel pans in salt water overnight and boil salt water in them next day to remove burned-on stains.
37. Clean your greens in salt water for easier removal of dirt.
38. Gelatin sets more quickly when a dash of salt is added.
39. Fruits put in mildly salted water after peeling will not discolor.
40. Fabric colors hold fast in salty water wash..
41. Milk stays fresh longer when a little salt is added.
42. Use equal parts of salt and soda for brushing your teeth.
43. Sprinkle salt in your oven before scrubbing clean.
44. Soaked discolored glass in a salt and vinegar solution to remove stains..
45. Clean greasy pans with a paper towel and salt.
46. Salty water boils faster when cooking eggs.
47. Add a pinch of salt to whipping cream to make it whip more quickly.
48. Sprinkle salt in milk-scorched pans to remove odor.
49. A dash of salt improves the taste of coffee..
50. Boil mismatched hose in salty water and they will come out matched.
51. Salt and soda will sweeten the odor of your refrigerator.
53. Remove offensive odors from stove with salt and cinnamon.
54. A pinch of salt improves the flavor of cocoa.
56. Salt and lemon juice? Removes mildew.
57. Sprinkle salt between sidewalk bricks where you don't want grass growing.
58. Polish your old kerosene lamp with salt for a better look.
Ingredients
½ kg yoghurt
2 tomatoes (finely chopped)
2 onions (omelet cut)
½ tsp black pepper
1 ½ tsp sugar
1 cucumber (finely chopped)
2 carrots (finely chopped)
Lettuce leaves as required
Method
1. Beat yoghurt till creamy.
2. Add all the seasoning and mix well.
3. Then add the vegetables and mix.
4. Serve chilled.
Ingredients
1 kg potatoes, boiled and mashed
Mint leaves half bunch
Coriander leaves half bunch
4 green chillies, (finely chopped)
1 tsp white cumin powder
Salt to taste
2 tsp chat masala
4 tsp lemon juice
Gram flour (Besan) as required for coating
Oil for frying
Method
1. Mix all ingredients, except gram flour in the potatoes.
2. Make small balls.
3. Coat them in gram flour and deep fry in oil till golden brown.
4. Serve with ketchup.
Ingredients
1 plain cake (400 grm)
1 cup milk
4 eggs
3 bananas
1 bowl sugar
1/2 bowl chocolate chips
1/2 bowl raisins
5 to 8 drops vanilla essence
1/2 bowl pistachios
Method
1. Cut the cake in small pieces.
2. Beat the eggs properly.
3. Place the beaten eggs, sugar, milk and vanilla essence in a big bowl.
4. Then take a baking dish place the pieces of cake, and banana. Add raisins, pistachios and the batter which we made first.
5. Mix all of this properly.
6. Sprinkle with brown sugar.
7. Bake this in a pre-heated oven for 50 minutes.
Ingredients
1/2 cup maida
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 whipped egg
Oil for frying
Method
1. Add all the ingredients to the whipped egg and whip it to a smooth paste.
2. Heat oil in a pan.
3. With the help of a round spoon place the mixture in the pan.
4. Turn over when one side is brown.
5. Serve with jam or lemon juice.
Ingredients
250 gm mince meat
½ tsp all spice powder
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
½ tsp cumin powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder or to taste
½ tsp salt or to taste
½ tsp coriander powder
½ tsp gram flour
1 to 2 eggs beaten
Bread crumbs as required
Oil for frying
6 burger buns
Mayonnaise and Tomato ketchup as required
2 tomatoes sliced
1 cucumber peeled and sliced
Method
1. Take mince meat in a bowl, add red chilli powder, all spice, ginger garlic paste, cumin powder, salt, coriander powder and gram flour.
2. Mix well and leave it to marinate for one hour. Sprinkle bread crumbs on a flat surface, make small balls of mince and press it on bread crumbs and shape into cutlets.
3. Heat oil in a pan. Dip the cutlets in beaten eggs and deep fry till golden brown in colour on both sides. Take out on an absorbent paper.
4. Take burger bun apply ketchup on it, then put a cutlet, cucumber and tomato slice on top and mayonnaise on other piece of the bun and cover it.
5. Yummy and delicious special burger is ready to serve.
5. Garnish the dish with lettuce leaves and serve with ketchup.
Ingredients
1 kg boiled and mashed potatoes
1 bunch coriander leaves
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp garlic paste
Tomato sauce for garnish
4 tbsp of lemon juice
1 tsp salt
Bread slices (as required)
Method
1. Mix all the ingredients except tomato sauce and bread slices, together and make small kebabs.
2. Place a kebab on a slice, apply ketchup then place another slice on it and then place it in a sandwich maker.
3. Chat pati sandwiches are ready to eat.
Ingredients
8 glasses of lemonade
Juice of two lemons
2 cup sugar
1 apple, quartered and thinly sliced
1 orange (segments)
2-3 rings of pineapples fresh or canned, thinly sliced.
Few grapes, halved and pips removed.
8-10 firm strawberries, sliced.
Grated rind of 1 lemon.
Method
1. Dissolve sugar in water in a punch bowl and stir well.
2. Add lemon juice and lemonade. Then add the slices of fruits and gently mix everything together.
3. You may also add grapes or orange juice along with lemonade.
4. Chill before serving your super party punch.
Ingredients
1 cup rice
1/2kg mince meat
2 tpsp tomato sauce
2 tbsp yogurt
A few drops food colour (red & yellow)
Method
1. Boil the rice and divide into four parts. In the first part, add yellow colour and mix well, in the second part add tomato sauce.
2. Add red colour in the third and add green chutney.
3. For the last part prepare mince meat with curd in hot spices and then mix with the remaining rice.
4. Take a pyrex dish, grease it and spread all the layers one by one and then bake on medium heat for 20 minutes.
Ingredients
2 slice of bread
1 cucumber finely chopped
2 green chilli
1 small onion
1 tomato
1 lemon juice
few coriander leaves finely chopped
Method
1. Cut out the bread sides. Butter one slice of bread, and put the slice of cheese on top and bake for 2 minutes.
2. Take it out of the oven, sprinkle finely chopped tomatoes, green chillies and coriander.
3. Again put it in the oven for a few minutes.
4. Take it out and serve immediately with ketchup.
