HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Powdered starch is excellent for clean* inir silver. To prevent milk from boiling over, nib the edge of the saucepan with butter. Boiled linseed oil well rubbed into oak bedsteads gives them a splendid polish. Stains on aluminium an.l tin may b# removed by rubbing with salt. The flavour of coffee will be improved if a few grains of salt are sprinkled over it before boiling water is added. Dust can be removed from the intricate carving of furniture with the aid of a bicycle pump. T he success of a brown stew much depends on the meat l>eiii£ quicklv fried before the liquid is added. Carrots should l.e scrubbed and scraped, not peeled, for the nourishment lies in the red pulp. Thi- pari is not at all indigestible. To remove rust from steel, rub the rusty part with an onion, and leave the juice on for twenty-four hours. Polish with bathbriek and" turpentine. Boiled starch mav be washed over newly-cleaned linoleum and allowed to diy. This will form a .-kin. and if the linoleum is to be polished cnlv a small quantity of polish need be used.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)
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190HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)
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