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 proceedure 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, rub with a slice of raw onion, leave until dry, and polish with a piece of silk. For a common cold take a bedtime “toddy” made by boiling an onion in half a pint of water to which a pinch of salt has been added. Drink as hot as possible. It is worth remembering, also, that onions possess excellent curative properties for sufferers from rheumatism. Sauce-pans with burnt-in markings can be treated by rubbing with onion, boiling for a few minutes, and finishing with steel-wool. The most stubborn cases will usually yield to this treatment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 3
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