WAYS WITH ONIONS
Apart from their established culinary uses, onions fill a number of other useful purposes. Here are a few of them: To remove rust from table knives, rub a slice of onion over the metal, allow to dry in, wash in hot water, and polish in the usual way. .The same procedure as above is equally efficacious for polishing all kinds of tarnished tinware For removing ingrained dirt and restoring a high polish to gilt or brassware, rid) with a slice of raw onion, leare until dry, and polish with a piece of silk. For a common cold take a bed-time "teddy" made by boiling an onion in half a pint of water to which a pinch of salt has boon added. Drink as hot as possible. It is worth remembering, also, that onions possess excellent curative properties for sufferers from rheumatism. , Saucepans with burnt-in markings ran' he treated by rubbing with onion, boiling for a few minutes, and finishing wjth steel-wool. The most stubborn cases will usually yield to this treatment. I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 18
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175WAYS WITH ONIONS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 18
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