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Always wash the lid of tin cans!
April 2024

Always wash the lid of tin cans!

Anyone who uses a conventional can opener, which cuts out the lid inside, knows it: if you open a tin can, especially those that are filled with liquids, the lid bends briefly into the contents. The...

Plastic lid warped - re-shape the lid
April 2024

Plastic lid warped - re-shape the lid

Plastic bowls sound or are too small for the lid? Do you know that also, if one uses the Tupperdosen or other plastic storage (fresh) cans often, then fit after a number of washes, the lid somehow...

Preserve marmalade with less sugar
April 2024

Preserve marmalade with less sugar

I like the traditional jam, ie fruits and the same sugar (I do not like gelling sugar, but use only normal household sugar) usually too sweet. So I take less sugar, simmer to the jam and fill after...

Pickled cucumbers -
April 2024

Pickled cucumbers - "extra spicy"

Here's a recipe for spicy-hot, deliciously aromatic canned cucumbers without ready-made concoctions. For 6 large glasses (1000-1200 ml) you need: 3 kg of cucumbers 1 liter of vinegar (variety to...

Awake the tomato sauce in stock
April 2024

Awake the tomato sauce in stock

TimeTotal preparation time: 1 hr. Now it's time again: the tomatoes are ripe, all at once. At least with me. And because I do not have enough to do, I'll do it with tomatoes too. preparation Cut...

Cucumber recipe: cucumber or for awakening
April 2024

Cucumber recipe: cucumber or for awakening

Simon cucumbers as a cucumber or even for awakening. I converted this gherkin recipe for our grandson Simon. Since then, the cucumbers are called only Simon cucumbers and are highly coveted. The...

No dripping oil bottle anymore
April 2024

No dripping oil bottle anymore

A tip with a small wink - and to avoid dripping oil bottles. What you see in the photo is not an oil bottle with sore throat, but a funny idea to avoid drops and rings on the work surface. So...

No iodized salt for pickled cucumbers
April 2024

No iodized salt for pickled cucumbers

Now is the time again, where you can buy the delicious little cucumbers in the markets. Those who enjoy it will certainly fill some glass with them, as well as sweet and sour pumpkin pieces and small...

Conserve lemons by inserting
April 2024

Conserve lemons by inserting

Although I consume a lot of lemons, it sometimes happens that I already buy the next net, although I still have a start. Before they mold me over time, I simply insert this net of lemons to make it...

Conserve the abrasion of lemon peel
April 2024

Conserve the abrasion of lemon peel

I was fortunate enough to have a grandmother who was a cook at "Herrschaften". She wrote all the recipes back then, and I'm grateful for that! Many recipes you have to modify something. But there...