Lemon Juice

- Mix 4 tablespoons of lemon juice to 1 gallon of water. This solution will clean windows that are just lightly soiled.

- whiten your clothes by adding 1./2 cup of diluted or straight lemon juice to your wash water (submitted by Sharon)

- To clean vegetables, use 1 Tablespoon of lemon juice to 2 Tablespoons of baking soda with 1 cup of water. Put the mixture in a sprayer bottle and spray the vegetables. Let sit for a few minutes then rinse.

- Saving Old Pennies? Heres how to clean them: Put the penny is a cup of lemon juice with a dash of salt, let stand overnight.

- To clean Kitchen Cabinets by removing the grease from the wood, use 1/4 cup of lemon juice mixed with 1 quart of hot water.

- To clean brass or silver, mix lemon juice and baking soda or cream of tartar, so it is a paste with the same consistency as toothpaste. Rub onto brass with a soft cloth. Rinse with water and dry.

- To shine chrome, apply undiluted lemon juice and buff to shine.

- To cleaning plastic containers stained with tomato sauce, rub the discolored plastic container with lemon juice and then let them sit in the sun for a day. The sun and the lemon juice combined bleaches the plastic back to its original color.

Other Lemon Juice Uses:
- Does your recipe call for sour milk, but you only have fresh milk? Add a squeeze of lemon juice, it will sour the milk for you
- To bring out the flavor of mushrooms when you are cooking, add a squeeze of lemon juice
- want crisp chicken skin? rub lemon juice over the chicken before roasting
- to keep your poached eggs firm, add a squeeze of lemon juice to the water
- making homemade jam and it is not setting? reboil the jam with 2 tbsp of fresh lemon juice for each 4lb of fruit (submitted by Helen)

Using Lemons

- does your fireplace or wood stove at times have that burning odor? To get rid of the odor throw in a few lemon peels. (submitted by Carrie B)

- refresh your cutting board by cutting a lemon in half and rubbing the cut side of a half of lemon all over your cutting board - it eliminates odors such as onions, garlic, etc

- rather than buying expensive room fresheners, make by filling a pot of water and adding lemon peels, cinnamon stickes, cloves and apple skins. Simmer on top of the stove- make sure you have lots of water in the pot. Submitted by Susan H. -

Squeezing Lemons to get the most juice tip:
before you squeeze allow the lemon to sit until it reaches room temperature. Then roll the lemon on the table or countertop using your hand. (submitted by Shirley N)

Grating Lemons:
before you grate, run your grater under cold water, for whatever reason, this helps the gratings slip off easily (submitted by Karen)

Lemons used for Health issues

- to help relieve a throbbing headache use a slice of lemon and rub your temples and forehead with it (sumitted by Shelly)

- squeeze one lemon and add the juice to hot water, drink every morning before breakfast, helps to lose weight (submitted by Karen)

- chapped hands? mix lemon juice, rose-water, and glcerine in equal parts rub on hands morning and night

- a lemon face pack - mix 1 tbsp of oatmeal with enough lemon juice to make a smooth paste. After washing your face, put on paste and leave for 10 minutes, then rinse off with cool water

And last but not least,
an Inspirational quote on Lemons:
"When fate hands you a lemon,
make lemonade."
Dale Carnegie