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Roast the atta for a nutty smell
Dry-roast wheat flour on a low flame for a few minutes before kneading if the atta smells flat. It also keeps a little longer in humid weather. Stop the moment it turns the colour of sand.
Jugaads for “flour”
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Tea strainer as a tiny sieve
For sifting a small quantity of maida, cocoa or icing sugar, the tea chalni is the right size and already in the drawer. Tap the rim rather than pressing the powder through.
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Steel glass as a cookie cutter
The rim of a steel glass cuts perfect rounds out of rolled dough, and the katori does bigger ones. Dip the rim in dry flour between cuts so the dough lets go cleanly.
GharBalcony rope pulley for deliveries
A rope and a cloth bag lowered from the third-floor balcony collects milk, vegetables and post without four flights of stairs. Standard equipment in Kolkata and Mumbai chawls for decades.
That is all 4 of them. बस, इतना ही।