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Article: Soured on house chores? Vinegar makes them easier
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 17, 1990
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Honey may gather more flies than vinegar, but what would we do
without vinegar to ease the anguish of household chores?
Vinegar was discovered thousands of years ago. The Babylonians
used it as a preservative. Roman legionnaires drank it as a
beverage. Cleopatra demonstrated its solvent power and won a wager
by using it to dissolve pearls. (Keep those pearls away from the
vinegar, Luv.)
Vinegar even paved the way for Hannibal to cross the Alps:
Obstructing boulders were heated and doused with vinegar, which made
them crack and crumble.
And vinegar is essential for the modern homemaker. It's a shelf
full of cleaners in one bottle.
Use white, distilled vinegar, made from ethyl ...