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You pride yourself in being a great home-maker.But often you get bogged down by small problems like moss on the kitchen floor, coffee-stains on the shirt,termite on the new wood-work! This book endeavours to provide easy solutions to common Housekeeping problems that crop up from time to time. Designed for the young home makers to help them with the running of the Housekeeping efficiently, it contains more than a 1000 tips on various aspects of home-management. The wealth of this information is sure to come in handy to the readers. Learn how to: * get back sparkle on your utensils * eliminate eggy smellin cakes * demoth your woollens the natural way * light up your interiors * get the gloss back on your diamonds and pearls . Also find tips here on Cleaning, Gadgets, Economy, Recycling(salads/raitas/dals/chapatis/sweets), Storing etc. So get ready to streamline your housekeeping yourself and your family with clinical efficiency.

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Publié par	V & S Publishers
Date de parution	01 avril 2012
Nombre de lectures	3
EAN13	9789381384640
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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On Kitchen, Beauty, Garden, Interiors Cooking, Health, Hygiene, Cloths First-aid, Jewellery & many more
Carani Narayana Rao
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ISBN 9789381384640
Edition: April 2011
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Publisher’s Note
M anagement has pervaded every sphere of modern life, so how could the home front remain exempt from its purview? Every homemaker is a manager irrespective of whether the setting is rural or urban. She manages to perform the household chores with such clinical efficiency that it seems to be a very easy job. But a little insight into the daily chores of a homemaker would reveal the enormity of the task. One cannot but appreciate the meticulous planning which goes behind the smooth functioning of a home. Inspite of so many modern gadgets meant for easing the task, the onus still rests on the homemaker to streamline all activities so that the home front rolls on well oiled wheels, smoothly and efficiently.
Pustak Mahal, in keeping up with its tradition, has been making great endeavour to publish ‘House-keeping series’ to lessen the burden of the Indian women. This book, Over 1000 Household Hints, is one such effort in that direction. The underlying principle of the book, written in a simple language, is to help young women with the innumerable problems which she faces when she first sets up her home. This book becomes all the more relevant to the working women who don’t have the required time to learn through the ‘trial and error’ method.
It is hoped that the book will prove useful and worth preserving.
— Publishers
Contents
INTRODUCTION
KITCHEN
Cooking Tips
Cakes and Cookies • Eggy Tips • Jams, Ice Creams and Desserts • Fish and Chicken • Paneer and Cheese • Breads — Indian and Exotic • Mushy Mushrooms and Vegetables • Chutneys and Pickles • Papads • Koftas and Cutlets • Pakoras and Dahi Wadas • Miscellaneous
Cleaning Tips
Gadget Tips
Economy Tips
Recycling Tips
Salads • Raitas • Dais • Rice • Chapatis • Sweets
Storing Tips
Anti-Pest Tips
Other General Practical Tips
Masala Facts
Cummin Seeds (Jeera) • Coriander Seeds (Dhania) •Aniseed (Saunf) • Turmeric (Haldi) • Red Chillies (Lai Mirchi) • Ginger (Adrak) • Mustard Seeds (Sarson) • Caraway Seeds (Ajwain) • Asafoetida (Hing) • Fenugreek Seeds (Methi) • Onion Seeds (Kalonji) • Garlic (Lahsun) • Some Useful Tips on How to Make at Home: • Garam Masala—North Indian Style • Garam Masala—Eastern Indian Style •Sambhar Powder • Paneer or Cottage Cheese • Khoya • Tamarind Pulp • Chaat Masala • Coco nut Milk • Idli Batter • Dosa Batter • Safety Tips While Working in the Kitchen
BEAUTY
Skin
Cosmetics
Hair
Teeth
Herbal Treatments
Herbal Hair Oils
HEALTH
Home remedies
Digestive Disorders—Causes and Remedies
Heartburn • Hyperacidity
The Benefits of Fruits and Vegetable Juices
Custard Apple • Jackfruit • Guava • Papaya • Banana • Mango • Fruit Juices • Vegetable Juices
Flower Power
Sleeping Tips for Insomniacs
Stress Management Tips
Stress Busters • Meditation
First Aid Kit
Some Safety Tips About Use of Medicines
First Aid tips
HOUSEHOLD
Setting up the House
Interiors of Your Home • The Living Room • Dining Room • Kitchen • Bedrooms • Bathrooms
3 Lighting Tips
Living Room • Kitchen • Bedrooms • Bathrooms • Some More Lighting Tips
Colour Tips
Tips on Avoiding Clutter
Tips on Cleaning & Shining
Clothes • Woollens • Washing and Storing
Sewing Tips
Odour Removal tips
Furniture
Pests
Economy Tips
Energy Saving Tips
Saving on Cooking Gas • Saving on Electric Energy • Fridge • Toaster • Mixie/Grinder • Washing Machine
Stains
Gardening
Pets
Jewellery
Cleaning and Maintenance • Jewellery Care • Gem Tips • Traditional Rules for Wearing Gems • Gem Cures • Some Popular Gem Prescriptions • Birth-stones
Practical Tips …
Gadgets Tips • Eco-Friendly Substitutes • For Your Car • Soapy Tricks
Appendices
Introduction
M any books are written on different subjects but not many books have been written on solutions to the common problems faced by a young home-maker when she first sets up her home. The young woman is totally nonplussed about the myriad little problems that crop up every day How to store the greens in the fridge, how to turn out soft ‘chapatis’ which will be appreciated by her husband, and how to make the resources last a little longer?

As a young bride, I faced a lot of problems and did not know where to look for the answers. Since I had always been a tomboy who had no interest in entering the kitchen or doing any household work, I was totally clueless about running the house. And when I faced the problems, I would sit and cry because I did not know how to deal with them. I would spend hours trying to prepare a dish, as given in a recipe book and land up with an inedible stuff just because I had put some extra teaspoons of salt in it. In my endeavour to become a perfect cook and a housekeeper, I pored over many books, contacted many people and maintained a diary with all the tips and hints given to me by my mother, aunts and grandmother. Those were hard times and I learnt it the hard way. I must have wasted a lot, thrown a lot, to learn my lessons. It was a perfect case of learning through ‘trial and error’. It took me years to learn all the tricks and yet I am far from being perfect. And then I realised that there must be hundreds of young women, like me, who do not have the patience and the opportunity to learn through advice or ‘trial and error’.

The book becomes more relevant in the present era because most young women are working and have neither the time nor the opportunity to go around, hunting for hints and making notes of them. They have to learn through trial and error method of learning. This method can be pretty time consuming and one incurs a lot of wastage, too. And wastage in the modern times will just not do.

This book has taken many years to be compiled. I wanted my daughters to have an easier time than me, when they grow up and take to home making. This book took shape when I dreamt of handing over the thousands of hints collected by me, over the years, to my daughters and the other young girls of this country. I hope this book comes handy for all those who are struggling to cope with the sudden demands made on them.
Although a lot of care has been taken while compiling the ideas and tips into neat sections, there may be certain areas, which are not clearly demarcated, mainly because the matter is common to two or more situations.
I think that the introduction cannot be complete unless I thank all the people who have been involved with me in bringing out this book. Bringing out a book requires a lot of effort and this book has been created solely by the united efforts of my family. A large and heartfelt chunk of thanks goes to my husband and my daughters who have made their precious time available for the book. They have come up with very constructive ideas and helped me with the editing. I would like to thank my husband, especially, since he has been with me through the birth pangs of this book. He has held my hand when I despaired, given me the moral courage when I felt like giving it up, supported me when I faltered and made himself available when I needed his presence.

— Tanushree Podder

Kitchen
T he most expensive commodity in today’s world is time. Gone are the days when women worked in the kitchen and spent their entire time planning the meals and sweating over their stoves. In the fast moving world that has no place for wastage of time or money, it is necessary that people make the best of their resources.

Apart from the time factor, there is a lot of wisdom required in maintaining the family budget within the available resources. This requires good planning and knowledge of cutting corners wherever possible. Economizing is an essential factor for the homemaker. In the coming millennium, it would be imperative for everyone to become more prudent and avoid wastage of every kind. Be it the energy resources, the food material or the natural products, conservation will be the key to survival.
Kitchen is one place where health becomes the casualty when one panders to the taste buds. It is also the place where a balanced diet and common sense play a very important role. There are hundreds of tried and tested methods to save time, fuel, and money. These methods have been discovered by wise women who knew where their priorities lay. By sharing the valuable tips with the others, they have done a good turn to the society.

The kitchen tips are divided into several parts, cooking tips, cleaning tips, economy tips, storing tips, gadget tips, anti-pest tips and practical tips.
COOKING TIPS
Cooking can be a pleasure for some but a painful experience for many modern women. With lesser time at hand, she is always in search of short cuts and substitute methods. For the inexperienced cook, an excess of salt or burnt rice can become an embarrassing experience. It is at times like this, one wishes for tips that could take care of the problems. Here are some very valuable tips to help the harassed homemaker .

Of Cakes and Cookies
Are you one of those cooks who despair over their cakes, which fall flat and refuse to rise? There is no need to lose hope. Try this tip fo