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Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sun May 06, 18 8:33 am Post subject:

Perhaps we need to be aware of how to store things. I know that to soften brown sugar you have to put it in a bowl and put a damp teatowel over it, so our parents/grandparents would have probably kept the brown sugar in a glass jar or covered pot and softened it when it got hard. I don't remember my mother using it particularly as she used mainly white sugar, which goes solid when wet. Remember many 2lb sugar cubes from camp.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Tue May 08, 18 8:54 am Post subject:
Well you learn something new everyday. Never knew that about brown sugar MR.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8961
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Thu May 10, 18 8:08 am Post subject:
We had presents well wrapped in pretty paper..unfortunately pretty paper has a lot of plastic on it Most were so well taped I can't re-use it either..so congratulations to those who wrapped in papery paper,or in gift bags

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu May 10, 18 9:13 pm Post subject:

gz wrote:

We had presents well wrapped in pretty paper..unfortunately pretty paper has a lot of plastic on it

Most were so well taped I can't re-use it either..so congratulations to those who wrapped in papery paper,or in gift bags

I'm slowly building a collection of cloth bags made from my scrap cloth stash, to wrap presents in. Mostly for my son at Christmas. They look really nice, all tied in ribbon, and are reusable.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8961
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Thu May 10, 18 9:22 pm Post subject:
brilliant idea

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri May 11, 18 5:49 am Post subject:
My mother taught me how to wrap a present using very little sticky tape. She always said it was expensive so don't waste it, but of course it does make the wrapping reusable too if it isn't covered in tape.

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