Absorb excess polish from furniture.
- After polishing furniture, sprinkle on a little
Kingsford's Corn Starch and rub wood with a soft cloth.
Clean silver.
- Make a paste with K Corn Starch and water. Apply with a
damp cloth, let dry, then rub off with cheesecloth
Remove grease or oil
stains from smooth fabric.
- Apply Corn Starch to the spot, wait twelve hours,
brush off, then launder as usual.
Make white clown makeup.
- Mix two tablespoons Corn Starch with one tablespoon
solid shortening. Too add color, add McCormick or Schilling
Food Coloring.
Give your dog a dry
shampoo.
- Rub Corn Starch into your dog's fur, then comb and brush
out.
Clean stuffed animals.
- Rub Corn Starch into the toy, let stand for five
minutes, then brush off.
Prevent pastry dough from
sticking to the cutting board and rolling pin.
- Sprinkle the cutting board and rolling pin with tasteless
Corn Starch before rolling out the dough.
Clean a deck of playing
cards.
- Place the deck of cards into a paper bag, adding four
tablespoons corn starch and shake briskly. Remove the cards
from the bag and wipe clean.
Soothe skin irritations.
- Apply a paste made of equal parts Corn Starch, zinc
oxide, and castor oil.
Thicken gravy.
- Corn starch has twice the thickening power of flour.
- When a gravy, sauce, soup, or stew recipe calls for
flour, use half as much corn starch to thicken.
- One tablespoon of corn starch equals two tablespoons
flour.
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