This is just a hit and miss list which will confirm practical. Pin it up near your kitchen cabinet so that you can refer to it from time to time.
- To keep rice separated, while boiling add juice of a lemon to the water
- Add a dash of lemon juice to mushrooms when cooking them.
- If you add one spoon of milk while boiling the cauliflower, it will still look bright white.
- While boiling cabbage and broccoli, add a slice of bread to the water lessens the odour
- To prevent beetroots from discolouring, cook them with 2 inches of the stem. Add a tablespoon of vinegar to the cooking water.
- . Rub potatoes with butter before baking to improve the taste.
- To remove the bitter taste of eggplants, soak them in salted water. Then drain and cook as desired.
- Lettuce will look fresh, soak in ice water for 30 minutes and adding a little lemon juice to the water.
- To slice mushroom in even sizes use an egg slicer .
- Add lemon juice or soak onion in cold water before cutting them for salad.
- Rub potatoes with butter before baking to improve the taste.
- When making potato chips, fry them twice to get a crisp crust.
- To keep red cabbage from discolouring while boiling, add a little vinegar to the water.
- To keep the colour of vegetables while boiling, add a pinch of baking soda to the water, particularly useful for spinach.
- Add a pinch of sugar to tomatoes to enhance the flavour.
- To remove the skin of tomatoes, just dip them for a few minutes in boiling water. The skin will slip off easily.
- To keep boiled syrup from crystallising, add a pinch of baking soda or a teaspoon of milk.
- Don’t throw away bread crusts. To turn out a pudding in a jiffy, make coarse slices of the bread and add them to a mixture of milk and pudding powder. Stir in a few raisins and bake. A yummy desert is ready.
- To whip cream, pour the measured quantity into a bowl and chill. Then whisk.
- When separating egg whites (for a soufflé), break one egg at a time in a small container. This is to ensure that no egg yolk goes in.
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Riding a aeroplane is safer then riding a car or a mule
Albert Einstein was a below average student in school
The King of Denmark styles his own hair
One fifth of the planet Mars is owned by Eric Clapton
China sent 3 pandas into space in the year 1972.
In many Southern states of India, four sided graters are considered works of Satan.
One looses 150 calories per hour if you hit your head against the wall.
Barbara Millicent Roberts is the name of Barbi doll’s full name
The tomato is the world’s largest selling vegetable/fruit more than apples.
In India, we have one language for each day, as there are 365 different languages spoken in India.
Cows don’t have upper front teeth
48 years after cans were introduced , then the invention of can opener came into being.
India produces more movies than in Hollywood
The colour of Coca-Cola was originally green
Hallmark makes cards for 105 different types of relationships
Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better
Men get hiccups more often than woman
Switzerland attracts the most suicide tourists
In olden times, iron cost more than gold
Silver can destroy 650 disease-causing bacteria
The banana will be extinct in 10 years time
On his 78th birthday, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee received a card that was over half a mile long and covered 1,470 sheets of paper. In making the card, over 750 pens and 200 bottles of ink were used.
The words ‘lakh’ and ‘crore’ do not exist in the English language. The two words are only used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and are derivatives of the Hindi words laakh and karod.
Vinoba Bhave burnt all his certificates in his early life. One day, while sitting with his mother in the kitchen, he burned the certificates , telling his mother that he did not require them, as his direction in life was different. He Gave up his studies in 1916, to join Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram.
Ekambar Sahu of India allows over 4,000 bats to take refuge in his house every day at sunrise.
The Golden Paw pets-only hotel in San Diego, California, is sheer heaven for cats. At this hotel, cats can sleep in a deluxe suite overlooking a birdfeeder with an aquarium, a television and an attendant in a rocking chair who will pet the animal.
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The British in 1929 opened Delhi Flying Club to Indians and not many joined the Club. One of the student was P.D. Sharma, Sarla’s husband. After he became a full fledged Pilot, Sharma and Sarla got married.Sarla was 16 at that time.
But instead of giving kitchen as endowment to his wife, as a normal Indian husband, he convinced her to join Flying Club. You are talking about 1936, when you were fictional about women becoming pilot, they don’t expect the women to go out the kitchen. I mean it is a men’s world all the time, there are husbands who do not like their wives even to drive their personal car, it was awe-inspiring on the side of Cap. Sharma who persuaded his wife to join the Aviation Flying Club—standing ovation to him.
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Sarla had taken only 9 hours of flying lessons, but she was successful in ingoing the cockpit of a Gypsy Moth and flew into the blue skies, and made a history as India’s first lady pilot in the year 1936. That’s why Sarla Thakral’s accomplishment had got no more analogs. There was no barricade for Sarla from accepting that unaccompanied flight. She is so dashing and courageous, at a time when the flying was like dream, flying in air was like phenomenon.
On that point comprised entirely a fistful of manly pilots in India. For women, of course aviating constituted ludicrous.” I used to hand over my chunni to my flying aide before I sat in the cockpit. One day Rai Bahadur Roop Chand who later went on to become the Indian ambassador to America, told my husband to scolded me and told me not to be such a be-sharam and that I should not take off my chunni while flying,” she says with an express amusement.
In those days she could take flying lessons for Rs. 30 an hour. ” Learning flying was cheap because not many wanted to risk their life. Sarla obtained her ‘A’ license when she accrued over 1000 hours of flying.
Sarla was now gearing up herself to apply for the group B license that would permit her to fly as a commercial pilot, but the destiny did not cooperate, the Jodhpur club closed down soon afterwards with the outbreak of World War ll.
To append supplementary catastrophe, she was widowed at the tender age of 24.Her husband died in a crash. She had a four year old daughter too. Her parents got her re-married. But her new husband too very cooperating and did not stand up in his wife’s way of evolution. He took his wives interests also in view.her previous husbands’ bereavement ruined her. She did not want to become a pilot any more. Sarla abandoned her plans to adapt a commercial pilot and divulged into various fields much in advanced at that time. She joined the Mayo School of Arts in Lahore. Along with paintings she also began designing clothes and costume jewelery.
She had also started textile printing and her sari prints were a frenzy with the designer mass and one of the clients was Vijaylaxmi Pandit.Sarla Thakral is 91 years old young lady still flying high in her life.
She had later shifted to Delhi and now she stay put in Bengali market, a place where only the privileged lives. She supplied her jewellery designs to several cottage industries for over 20 years.
Sarla was in recent times honoured for being the oldest yet the fittest person in her neighbourhood. She is 90+ now. Women of today should take the epitomize life of this prototypical lady who had a dynamism and energy other than the far side that of the kitchen and office and attending the cockpit flying high; I salute the first lady pilot.
Sarla Thakral is all the same flourishing and thriving till date. May God make her more hale and hearty and prosperous life, she is a superwoman indeed, because success is being able to spend your life your own way.
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We spotted Sweta and her boyfriend Alex O’Neil gorging on some delicious non-vegetarian food at an eatery in Vile Parle on Saturday night along with some friends.
Sweta was overheard telling the waiter, “If you don’t get my food soon, I will start eating someone’s food.” Obviously, the waiter made a quick dash to the kitchen to get Sweta her grub!
Alex, surprisingly, seemed to be cool with the spicy food, and relished it along with his wife. Well, after doing those jhatkas and matkas in a television dance show and getting used to spicy Bollywood dance numbers, the food must be quite bland, right Alex?
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