Classic Household Hints

Classic Household Hints
Author: Susan Waggoner
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2014-10-31
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1613122535

An illustrated, nostalgic how-to guide to achieving a clean, organized, and happy home—with over 500 retro tips and tricks! Return your household to the simpler times of yesteryear with this delightful guide full of time- and money-saving tips on everything from cleaning and organizing your home to buying and handling food. Even in an age of endless new household products and devices, these old-fashioned, tried-and-true methods can help any homeowner keep a cleaner, happier home. A thoroughly researched compendium of the best American home life tips from the 1920s through the ’60s, Classic Household Hints is filled with useful information, full-color illustrations, fascinating sidebars, and quotes—providing practical help as well as fun for housekeepers and neat freaks everywhere.


The Best Way - A Book Of Household Hints & Recipes

The Best Way - A Book Of Household Hints & Recipes
Author: Various
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1473390214

Originally published in 1915, this is a practical household guide written `for housewives by housewives'. This book is absolutely packed with advice and hints that will still be of much practical use today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Vintage Cookery Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include Soups Fish Dinner Dishes Vegetable Cookery Pastry and Puddings Sweets and Creams Savouries Breakfast Dishes Cold Meat Cookery Invalid Cookery Cakes and Candies Sauces, Pickles, and Preserves Beverages Cookery Crumbs Bread, Buns, and Tea-Cakes Notes for The Home Doctor Care of Clothes Household Hints and Helps for the Housewife Nursery Notes Toilet Hints What a Housewife Ought to know


Hints on Household Taste

Hints on Household Taste
Author: Charles Locke Eastlake
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780486250465

Primary authority on what was proper, beautiful, efficient in all aspects of mid-19th-century interior design. Originally published in 1868. Over 100 illustrations.


Heinz Distilled White Vinegar

Heinz Distilled White Vinegar
Author: Christine Halvorsen
Publisher: PIL Kids
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2005
Genre: Home economics
ISBN: 9781412712125

This handy book provides more than 100 hints and tips for using vinegar throughout the house to save time and money. » The quick and simple ideas in this book will help with cooking, cleaning, and many other household tasks. » Heinz Vinegar is in everyone's pantry. Give these tricks a try . . . you'll be glad you did.


Handy Household Hints from Heloise

Handy Household Hints from Heloise
Author: Heloise
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 160529117X

Do EVERYTHING Around the House • Better • Smarter • Faster Heloise is America's most recognized name for household advice, and she shares her innovative solutions for your most-pressing dilemmas. Whether you need shortcuts for everyday tasks, delicious ideas for quick meals, or ingenious tricks for the spills, accidents, and clogs in your day, just turn to Handy Household Hints from Heloise. You'll learn how to: • Clean a keyboard with a used dryer sheet. • Remove hot pepper seeds with a grapefruit spoon. • Lift scuff marks with plain, white paper. • Corral electrical cords with a ponytail holder. Discover Heloise's most creative ideas and tips for cleaning up, entertaining with ease, making repairs, getting organized, taking care of yourself, coping with nuisances, and keeping house. Filled with up-to-the-minute hints, you'll turn to this handbook whenever you've burnt the rice, stained your shirt, or splattered paint on your hands.


Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details

Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details
Author: Charles L. (Charles Locke) Eastlake
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781290890762

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.


The Aunt Daisy Cookbook

The Aunt Daisy Cookbook
Author: Daisy (Aunt)
Publisher: Hodder Moa
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781869711849

Aunt Daisy was one of New Zealand's best-loved radio personalities. Many remember her cheery voice at 9am every day calling "Good morning, everybody". While her nationwide broadcasts ended more than 40 years ago, her legacy lives on. THE AUNT DAISY COOKBOOK was first published in 1968 and has been reprinted more than 20 times since. Containing over 700 recipes, it is a great collection of classic New Zealand dishes. Aunt Daisy's recipes are simple, practical, economical and as useful today as when they were first published. Now, home cooks can once again be helped and encouraged by Aunt Daisy's know-how, practicality and unwavering optimism.