THIS is what I learned in the kitchen of this old goldfields bank in Kyneton – a town to which people in their middling years retire to play lawn bowls and potter:
* If you wrap a hot, carefully wrung-out napkin around sandwiches and then put them in a cool room, they won’t go stale.
* You can sponge stains out of silk with water you’ve boiled potatoes in.
* If you run hot water over plates you want to put in the oven, they’re less likely to crack.
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Oh come on! This is awesome stuff. It is immensely satisfying to imagine those silk stains coming right out, even though I can’t remember the last time I boiled potatoes.
I think I worry too much about boring people when I should really be thinking about potatoes.