~Nonfood Recipes~
Baked
Ornaments
Bread & Glue Ornaments
Sweet & Spice Potpourri
Mini Fragrant Keepsake Wreaths
Rust Stain Remover for Clothing
General Cleaning Solution
Solution for Cleaning Linen Stains
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Baked Ornaments
4 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 1/2 cup water
Mix all ingredients together until it forms a play dough-like
consistency. Roll out and cut with cookie cutters. Bake
at 350 degrees on a greased cookie sheet for 1 hour. Paint
with acrylic craft paints. Use glitter to decorate if desired.
Spray with clear varnish to seal. If you want to hang them,
cut a hole in the top with a straw before you bake them.
Use a ribbon to hang.
Bread & Glue Ornaments
3 slices
white bread
3 tablespoons white glue
1 teaspoon white acrylic or shoe polish
1 teaspoon glycerin
Remove crusts from bread and tear into small pieces. Mix all
ingredients together and knead until mixture no longer sticks to
your fingers and has a smooth texture, about 10 to 15 minutes.
A few drops of glycerin on your fingers keeps the dough from
sticking as you knead it. Keep the dough in a plastic bag
while not working with it to keep it from drying out. Remove
only small bits at a time. If the dough dries out, add a
little glue and knead it again. Roll in thin layers between
layers of wax paper. This dough is easier to handle than salt
dough and can be used for more intricate projects. Dough can
be colored by using liquid or paste food coloring, watercolors or
liquid tempera paint. Acrylics can not be mixed into
the dough, but can be used to paint the dried objects. Pieces
of dough can be colored differently simply by kneading until dough
is evenly colored throughout. Shape dough on pieces of
aluminum foil. All dough parts must be joined with water which
acts like glue. Use water sparingly. To attach thin
pieces of dough, adhere them firmly by using a toothpick or paper
clip thorough them in addition to the water. Large ornaments
must be strengthened with wire. Add hanging device or make
hole for hanging before drying. Seal with clear spray varnish
after drying. Air dry time is 12 to 24 hours. Can be
dried in a dehydrator for 6 to 12 hours.
Sweet & Spice Potpourri
1 cup dried
rose petals
1/4 cup dried lavender blossoms
1/8 cup dried rosemary
1/2 cup dried grated orange peel
2 teaspoons orange-spice tea
1 tablespoon coriander seed
1 tablespoon whole cloves
1 cup dried chamomile
1 cinnamon stick, crumbled
1/3 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 drops rose oil
1 drop lavender oil
1 drop orange oil
1/2 cup dried bachelor's button petals (for color only)
In a large bowl, combine rose petals, lavender, rosemary, chamomile
and orange peel. Add tea and spices. Add oils,
sprinkling lightly over mixture. Mix in bachelor's button
petals. Makes about 2 cups potpourri.
Mini-Fragrant Keepsake
Wreaths
3/4 cup
potpourri
3 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon white glue
1 wreath-shaped gelatin mold (1/3 cup)
shortening
Lightly grease the interior of the gelatin mold with shortening; set
aside. Blend glue and water together in a small bowl.
Add potpourri; stir to coat evenly and set aside for 5 minutes.
Spoon the potpourri and liquid into the mold. Pack the
potpourri firmly and allow to set 30 minutes. Carefully pour
off the excess liquid by holding the mold nearly vertical.
Place the mold, face down, on a screen in a warm, dry room.
Leave undisturbed overnight or 12 hours. Firmly tap rim of
mold, face down, against screen to dislodge wreath. Place the
wreath face up on a screen and dry in a warm room (70 degrees) for 2
days or until wreath is quite firm.
Rust Stain Remover for
Clothing
1 cup lemon
juice
6 cups hot water
Mix water and juice in a gallon bucket. Add stained clothing;
soak several hours and wash as usual.
General Cleaning Solution
(No Rinsing
Required)
1/4 cup baking soda
1 cup clear (not soapy) ammonia
1/2 cup vinegar
1 gallon warm or hot water
Mix soda, vinegar and ammonia together and add to the water.
Good cleaner for tile floors, woodwork, greasy stoves and mildewed
Naugahyde.
Solution for Cleaning
Linen Stains
Clorox II
powder (blue box)
Cascade dishwashing powder
Place 1 cup Cascade in a very large pot (enamel canning pot is
ideal) with 1 gallon water. Bring to a boil and add 1 cup
Clorox II. Be careful as this mixture will foam up. Stir
until the powders dissolve. Add another gallon of water to the
pot and allow to cool slightly. Add linens to be soaked.
Soak for several hours and wash in the washing machine to remove any
"bluing" caused by the soaking. If it is delicate, wash and
rinse by hand in the bath tub. If a large tablecloth is to be
cleaned, place in the bath tub and and pour cleaning solution over.
Add water to cover the cloth. If it is badly stained,
make another recipe of the cleaning solution and add instead of
plain water.
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