MANY USES OF VINEGAR

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30316, 17 December 1963, Page 2

MANY USES OF VINEGAR

Survey Made In

Australia

The vinegar bottle must be one of the hardest-worked items in the Australian home, according to the results of an extensive survey recently concluded in Sydney and Melbourne. Housewives were found to be using vinegar in 20 different ways, many of them unconnected with cooking. The most popular single use was with fish and in making mint sauce, with mayonnaise and vegetable salads close behind. For every 100 housewives who used vinegar in this way 24 included it in pickles and chutney, 17 in savoury sauces, 12 in French dressing and 10 in marinades. As weU as reaching for the vinegar to cook meat, fish and eggs, housewives were also using it as an ingredient in confectionery, pavlovas and other desserts. A number relied on vinegar for polishing furniture, cleaning windows and glassware—or rinsing their hair. For others wanting relief from mosquito bites, treatment for headaches or a slimming drink then it was versatile vinegar again to the rescue. One wonders what greatgrandma would make of all these new uses for her old tried stand-by. But then, when she was a girl, it was already a very old tale that told of Jack who “went to bed to mend his head with vinegar and brown paper.”