Food and drinks
- Ice cubes with trimming
One can serve Soft-Drinks and cocktails particularly attractively, if one freezes Maraschino-cherries, olives, leaves of mint and similar inside the the ice cubes.
- Storage of alcoholic beverages
Which alcoholic beverages should be preserved lying and which standing? The answer is completely simple: Only bottles, which are locked with a cork, should store on lying; otherwise the cork will dry up the cork and it won't close airtight anymore.
- Coffee beans against hangovers
There are many tricks, to expel the hangover after a night of drinking! Here's a very effective: slowly chew several coffee beans, then swallow them. That will get you on your feet again!
- Don't dilute your Punch with ice cubes
A pot juice or punch is easily diluted by using ice cubes for cooling. Simply fill the ice cubes in a plastic bag and put the bag inside your beverage.
- Chrystal-clear ice cubes
Would you like to serve your guests drinks with ice cubes which are crystal clear? Boil some water, leave cool down and freeze then. The trick? Boiled water freezes clearly because it contains fewer oxygen.
- How to handle Shells
When do shells to be open, when be closed? Not yet cooked shells should be only used if they are closed. Cooked are only eatable if they are open. All others away!
- How to outwit a hangover
If you wake up with a hangover, the best you can eat is some low-fat, but well salted broth and drink amply mineral water after that. That equalizes the salt and fluid need under which the body suffers after drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Salt on Melons
Do you love eating melons? Still more aromatically they taste, if you scatter a little salt on the melon. Yes, salt accomlishes the sweetness of this fruit first for the worth.
- Dissolve sugar for your punch before adding it
What do you use to sweeten a punch? Sugar, of course. But if you dissolve the sugar previously by boiling it shortly in a little water, the punch will have much more aroma than if you just pour plain sugar in.
- Hard bread becomes soft again
If a piece of bread has become once hard and dry, one does not have to throw it away. Simply wrap it with a damp cloth, let it soak for a short time and put in the oven for a while.
- Caution at Pineapples
The shell of a pinapple contains agents which can lead to inflammations in the mouth. Therefore never forget: Use a different knive for the sectioning of the fruit than you've used to peel it.
© 1997 Michael Bouska