Play Dough








2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
3 TBSP.cooking oil
1 TBSP.Alum
2 cups boiling water ( with Mom’s help )
food coloring of choice

Mix the first five ingredients together.
Store in refrigerator until ready to use.
Color different batches with different colors
and store in their own zip-lock baggy.

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Finger-paints






1 1/2 cup cornstarch
1 1/2 cup soap flakes
1/2 tsp. food coloring
cold water
4 cups. boiling water ( again with Mom )

Add enough of the cold water to the cornstarch to
make a smooth, creamy, paste. Add the boiling water,
stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth. When
this has cooled slightly stir in soap flakes, making sure they
dissolve completely, after a few minutes. Add food
coloring for different colors.

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Water Colors



 
 
1 TBSP. vinegar
1 TBSP baking soda
4 TBSP. corn starch 
1 TBSO light corn syrup
Food coloring.

Stir together the first two ingredients.
This will foam some (great lesson on 
chemical reaction). Add food coloring.
Mix in the last two ingredients. 

Put in small containers and allow to harden.
Use like normal water colors.
Make one recipe for each color.

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 Nutty Putty (Anyone remember silly putty?)

1 TBSP. liquid starch
2 TBSP. white glue
3 drops food coloring (optional)
plastic egg or screw top jar.

Put starch in bowl add glue, and let set 5 minutes.
If desired add food coloring. Mix until starch is absorbed 
and color is spread smoothly.
HINT: the longer you mix, the better it gets



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KOOL AID JELLY

 Wouldn't the kids get a kick out of this?

 Here is a unique recipe!


  1 envelope of unsweetened Kool-aid
  3 cups of water
  1 box Sure Jell Light
  3 cups of Sugar

 
  Stir Kool-aid and water til dissolved, set aside.
 Combine Sure Jel with 1/2 cup of sugar;
 stir into Kool Aid and set
  aside.
 Gradually stir in sugar, stirring until dissolved.
 Pour into clean
  dry containers and cover 
or seal with paraffin or by hot water bath.
 If
  jelly is not sealed then it may be frozen

  Makes 4-8 oz jars.


  Great for gifts...
 Think of the possibility of flavors...
 you could even
  use blue and add gummy fish! 
 Try this with Splenda for a sugar
  free version soon!
 Sugar-free is a consideration!


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Cure for Eczema




carrots 
fresh lard
powdered resin
sulfur
Scrape the carrots and fry them in lard until
brown. Drain off the lard and melt in it,
1 TBSP. resin. Stir well, put in jar, when cool
mix in 1 TBSP. sulfur.
Apply each day. The eczema will soon be gone.
This is a speedy cure.

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Delicious Stew










1 Elephant
2 Rabbits ( optional )
salt and pepper to taste

Cut elephant into bite size pieces.. This should take 
about 2 months. Add enough brown gravy to cover.
Cook over kerosene fire for about 4 weeks, at
465 degrees. 
 This will serve 3,829 people. If more are expected,
two rabbits may be added, but only do this if 
necessary, as most people don’t like hare in their
stew. 
 For a variety.... try half dozen donkeys instead.

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Stomach Medicine



1 lb. sugar
1 qt. water 
Boil to a syrup

1 TBSP. rhubarb powder
1 TBSP. peppermint
1 TBSP. paregoric
1 tsp. baking soda

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Grandma’s Cough Medicine



Rock candy
1 pt. boiling water
juice of 2 lemons
juice of 1 large Spanish onion
20 drops of glycerin

Bring this all to a boil.. and store in
tightly covered jar.

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Recipe for Rheumatism

Grind 3 lemons, 3 oranges, 3 grapefruit.
Over this pour 1 qt. boiling water.
Let stand 7 hours; strain and add 2 TBSP.
Epsom salts and 3 tsp. of cream of tartar.
Take 3 TBSP. a day

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Floor Polish

1 TBSP. paraffin oil
2 TBSP. vinegar
3 TBSP. naphtha
1/2 bucket of warm water

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Hard Soap

 


5 cans lye
5 qts water
Let this soak overnight..

25.lb lard
1/2 cup ammonia
2 1/2 cups coal oil
2 1/2 cups borax

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Lucille’s Soap

 



First take 2 qts of strained grease. Add I pound
bag of lye, 1 qt of water, 1/2 cup ammonia,
2 TBSP. Borax, and rose water.
Stir til the consistency of honey.

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Window Cleaner

Mix in one gallon jar:

1 pt. rubbing alcohol
2 TBSP. liquid dish detergent
3 TBSP. ammonia

Fill jar with water. Shake to mix.
Use in a spray bottle to clean windows.

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Lucille’s Paint and Varnish Remover
 

1 qt stiff starch
2 tsp. lye

Mix together.

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Bread Dough Ornaments

2 cup flour
1 cup water
1 cup salt

Roll portions of the dough 1/8 inch thick on floured
board. Store remainder of dough in covered bowl
to keep from drying out. Make ornaments with a
cookie cutter. Bake at 200 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

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How to preserve a Husband

Select one fresh from the market. Not too green,
but tender and healthy. Handle gently for they bruise 
easily. Sweeten with smiles. Blend with patience, humor 
and a pinch of mischief. Do not beat!!!  Preserve over a 
steady fire of warmth and affection. Like fine wine, 
they mellow with age. Do not pickle or put in hot water.
This makes them bitter. Serve with sugar and spice
and tender loving care...

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Boiled Wife

Take one cool, fresh, good-natured wife.
Add 3 small children, a yelping dog, and a cranky
neighbor. Stir well. Blend in equal parts of heat,
humidity, dust and stale air. Baste with annoying
phone calls, spilled milk, skinned knees, Doctor
appointments that won't keep, a pile of ironing 
to do, and jelly smeared on the rug. Top with a
splitting headache. Let mixture simmer in a 98
degree home for about 8 hours, or until boiling
point is reached. Test by arriving home from an
air-conditioned office with a cheerful greeting!
"Did you have a nice day?" Then stand back.


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Paper Mache

3 cups flour
3 cups water

Mix well, and dip strips of paper into mixture.
Placing each wet strip onto your project. Let dry.

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Morton's "Dough-it-Yourself"

1 cup salt
2 cups flour
1 cup water

Blend salt and flour, adding water, a little
at a time. Knead dough 7 to 10 minutes til firm.
Place in a plastic bag to keep from drying out.
** Project**
Make letters of your name, and place on a cookie
sheet and bake at 325 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
When done, it will sound hollow when thumped with
a spoon. 
When cool, paint with water colors or food dye.
Varnish to keep moisture from dough. Use white
glue to attach to a plaque.

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And here's some
 "Not so Odd" 
 notes for ya..

 Cooking Hints

                    
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Never put a cover on anything that contains milk
unless you want to spend the rest of the day cleaning
the stove when it boils over.

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Anything that is grown under ground, start off 
cooking in cold water. Potatoes, carrots, beets,
etc., Anything that grows above the ground,
start off with boiling water. English peas,
greens, beans, etc.

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To clean aluminum pans when they are stained
dark, merely boil with a little cream of tartar, 
vinegar or acid foods.

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Slip your hand inside a waxed sandwich bag
and you have a perfect mitt for greasing your
baking pans and casserole dishes.

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To remove fish odor from your hands, utensils,
and dish cloths, use one teaspoon baking soda
to a quart of water.

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When rolling cookie dough, sprinkle board with
powdered sugar instead of flour. Too much flour
makes the dough heavy and tough. When freezing
cookies with a frosting, place in freezer unwrapped
for about 2 hours.. wrap without worrying about
them sticking together.

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Always know where your fuse box and master 
cut-off switch is. If you know where the lever is
to pull you can always cut off the current until
a service man, or Fire Dept., gets there..   :-)

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You can cut a meringue pie cleanly by coating
a knife lightly with butter.

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You may determine the age of an egg by placing it
in a bowl of cold water. If it lays on its side, its fresh.
If it stands at an angle it is atleast three days old
and ten days if it stands on end.

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A tablespoon of vinegar in the water when poaching
eggs will help set the whites so they will not spread.

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If you want to make a pecan pie and don’t have
the nuts. Try using crushed cornflakes. They
will rise to the top the same as nuts and give a
delicious flavor and crunchy surface.

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Cut drinking straws into short lengths and insert
through the slits in pie crusts to prevent juices from
boiling over in the oven, as this lets the steam
escape.

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If the juice from your apple pie runs over in the
oven, shake some salt on it, which causes the juice
to crisp so it can be removed easily.

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Use cooking oil or salad oil in waffles and hot
cakes in the place of shortening. No extra
pan or bowl to melt the shortening, and no 
waiting.

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