Nicron #46 07 августа 1997

Tips - purify water, cook potatoes and other tips.

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               OLD METHOD OF WATER PURIFICATION
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(R) MDF HACKER
(C) The Council met Lydia Lukyanov.

In the current outbreaks of typhoid and cholera that, the 
plague and intestinal infections is helpful to know a simple 
and very reliable way purification of drinking water from 
bacteria. One gram of finely comminuted alum is dissolved in 
four liters of water - that's all. Alum almost sterile water, 
though it is well prokipyachena. This dose Alum is harmless and 
does not alter the taste of water. It only remains filtered 
through ordinary filter. Alum sold pharmacies.


              How to cook potatoes?

It seems that everyone knows how. But now come to market tender
quickly boil soft varieties. Potatoes in water become
watery, tasteless. Boil a potato, especially the very
Fresh tubers, not in water, and a pair by storing the tubers or 
in the a special pan with durshlakom or suspend the usual

pan mesh, woven wire.

In the vapors of boiling water the potatoes quickly and 
perfectly cooked, not loss of palatability. How to prevent mold 
and at the Pickle jam on the surface of the brine in the tanks 
roll in (as possible even with a thin layer) dry mustard powder.

Formed plenochka will prevent saline cucumbers,
tomatoes, mushrooms and cabbage from the growth of molds. Shoot 
it should be periodically, sprinkling the surface of the brine 
the new dry mustard. 

A jam, cooked with a small amount now expensive sugar
will protect against mold a thin layer of honey poured on top 
of jam in the bank. You can take a risk and pour olive oil - it 
is not smell. Better yet, fill jar top with melted wax or

paraffin. How to save the vegetables until the spring of dry 
peat Mash to a powder and pour them carrots, beets, cabbage, 
potatoes, onions, which are absolutely want to keep fresh until 
spring. Peat has strong antiseptic properties, because the 
vegetables in it and do not rot. Than discourage a bad smell.


Dissolve the dry mustard until liquid slurry. If it wipe
dishes or your hands after cooking, the smell of fish, onions 
and other bad "flavors" will disappear. What to wash bottles

vegetable oil, so good wash ... coffee grounds, that
remains at the bottom of the pot. Pour it into the bottle from 
under the oil and Shake. Sediment will collect all the oil from 
the walls. Just do not bemoan grounds. Cleaning glassware 
sediment from the water on the walls of the narrow decanters 
and vases easily removed with vinegar. Pour water to top of the 
container and add a little vinegar. Acidulated water dissolve 
the minerals that have settled on a glass surface. 

How to fix the taste of homemade wine. Homemade dry wine from 
the berries and fruits are often obtained with a deviation from 
the desired taste: it ferment, then some kind of flavor will be 
..... In the old days such wines corrected by serebra.Opustite 
in the bottle for three days a silver spoon or coin (pure 
silver), and then try to drink. Silver should be covered with a 
black patina.