My Trinidad and Tobago Cookbook
These recipes are either my own or from some of my Trinidad and Tobago friends.
Catching
a salmon in Manzanilla,
Trinidad East Coast
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Cookbook Index
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Strange uses for food:
- Crisco can be used as a cheap and efficient makeup remover
- A
bowl of cheap wine placed in a cupboard, will kill roaches: they'll
get drunk, fall in and drown
- Left
over cola drinks, poured into your toilet will give it a brilliant shin
- Peanut
butter will remove chewing gum from your hair. Rub around the wad of
gum, then wash your hair as usual
- Baking
soda on a damp cloth removes crayon marks off walls
- Olive
oil can be used as furniture polish
- Egg
yolk mixed with warm water removes coffee or tea stains from fabric.
Soak stain, then wash fabric as usual
- Tomato
juice removes ink spots on clothing. Soak spot for 20 mins in the juice,
then wash as usual
- To
get glue off containers after removing labels, rub vegetable oil on
the label area with a cloth
- Orange
juice cleans and polishes chrome
- Vinegar
or salt poured into driveway cracks, removes unwanted grass
- Whole
cloves or sage placed around windows etc keeps ants away
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