THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, May 18, 1995 TAG: 9505180050
SECTION: FLAVOR PAGE: F2 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: Morsels
SOURCE: Ruth Fantasia
LENGTH: Short : 50 lines
I KNEW YOU could cook in the dishwasher, but I'd never heard of using the appliance for a facial.
Just when the dishwasher finishes the rinse cycle, and before it starts drying, turn it off and open the door a few inches to let the first blast of really hot steam escape.
Then, quickly throw a beach towel over the opening, trapping the steam. With your hair covered in another towel, stick your head under for a few minutes or so.
This tip, from a 1980 volume of ``Hints from Heloise'' (Avon Books), is one of the, well, more imaginative.
Here are more hints from Heloise, as well as some from ``Mary Ellen's 1,000 New Helpful Hints'' by Mary Ellen Pinkham (Doubleday, 1983), and ``Household Hints and Handy Tips'' from Reader's Digest Books (1995):
Never buy frozen food covered with frost. It has probably been defrosted and refrozen.
If you're out of fingernail-drying solution, spray nails with vegetable oil spray. Wait five minutes, then lightly tissue off the excess.
Cottage cheese will stay fresher longer if it's refrigerated upside down.
Drop a rose petal into each compartment of an ice-cube tray. Add water and freeze for prettier ice cubes.
To clean an electric frying pan, cover the bottom with an ammonia-soaked cloth, place in a plastic bag and tie closed. Let set overnight. In the morning, the grease will come right off.
Refrigerate leftover pasta and saute it in butter the next day. Add a bit of garlic powder if desired.
New products
Hellmann's has introduced One Step Dressings for coleslaw, chicken salad and tuna salad. A 16-ounce jar costs $2.49
Keebler is on the shelf with a variety of reduced-fat products. There's Munch'ems Reduced Fat Sour Cream & Onion snacks, Wheatables Reduced Fat Ranch crackers and Fat Free Elfin Delights, devil's food cookies with vanilla cream.
Kellogg's is offering unfrosted low-fat Pop Tarts in three flavors: strawberry, cherry and blueberry. by CNB