New Veneer. Reface your melamine cabinets to give them an entirely new look. Refacing entails replacing doors and drawer fronts and applying wood veneer over the fronts and sides of the cabinet frames. Self-adhering veneer strips make this a DIY project for individuals with moderate home-improvement experience.ou can use the primer on the drawers' and doors' wood trim and on the cabinet frames, too. Once your cabinet doors, drawers and frames are primed, paint them with an oil-based paint. Oil paint takes longer to dry, but it creates a smoother finish than latex, and it's easier to clean.
Sugar syrup is the foundation for most candy, with added fillings such as chocolate, nuts, peanut butter, nougat, fruits and so on. One of the simplest candies is Pectin Fruit Jellies, using sugar, fruit puree, applesauce and pectin. Take a break from cakes and pie, and try your hand with some homemade confections.
Made strawberry jam with pectin (a brand other than Certo), however, my mother who is a jam junkie, told me to make the jam without the pectin. Her reason is that jam made with this pectin product typically is not good for more than 1 year or so, where as jam made with just fruit, sugar and lemon juice last much longer.umbug. I've been making jam for over 30 years. I use pectin-usually Certo, because it's the brand most widely available here. The advantage to using pectin, in my opinion, is that you can make jam with a much shorter cooking time, which produces a product that tastes fresher.