It Tasted of Petrol
Dear Aunt Daisy, You may remember my writing to you of my difficulty with an aluminium preserving pan which had been used for petrol, and had so absorbed the stuff that everything cooked in the pan tasted very strongly of it. Well, I tried all sorts of things, including earth, but at last stumbled by accident upon a remedy. I had bought a pineapple; and having nothing else handy for vegetable scraps, I used the preserving pan, and I put the pan out in the garden. After a day or two, I emptied it out and washed it well, and found that at last the bad taste had entirely gone. The pineapple did the trick. I’ve even made jam successfully in the
pan since.
A.S.
H.
A useful hint. I believe boiling thubarb leaves in a pan also absorbs a bad taste. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 23
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146It Tasted of Petrol New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 23
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