HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 43, 20 February 1926, Page 26

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

In hot weather especially, the smell of cooking dn a kitchen is apt to 'be very unpleasant. This can be remedied to a great extent by placing a soup plate full of builder's lime on the mantelpiece and another in the fender or beneath the dresser. You need only change the lime once a month, provided you damp it slightly every week. A Use for Cold Potatoes.—Bread makers who cannot afford to buy the best flour will find their bread much nicer if they use the cold potatoes left over from day to day. Rub them into the flour as you would lard, then add the yeast in the usual way. This makes the bread light. When making breadcrumbs, try putting the bread, previously in the oven, through a mincing machine. This is a very quick and easy way, and to save the crumbs flying here, there and everywhere tie a large paper bag over the mouth of the mincer to receive the crumbs. . The smallest left-overs of soap may be used by placing the bits together in a small bag of linen, or cheesecloth, and tying securely, so that none of them can escape. The bag- is used in precisely the same way as a tablet of soap would be, the soap oozing freely through the fabric when the latter is immersed in i water. For the bath, a soap bag is rather to be preferred to the piece of soap, being decidedly less elusive, and on the whole easier to manage. Pieces of old velveteen should be washed and used j for polishing. They are an excellent ! substitute for chamois leather, and may ibe washed as easily as an ordinary duster.