HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Clean mirrors with a pad of tissue paper sprinkled with methylated spirits. Mild stains can be removed by rubbing them with a cut potato. Finger-nails that ;ire inclined to be brittle should be leaked 00 asionally in olive oil. When cooking turnip- add a tcaspoonful of white sugar ?<• the Mater. This greatly improves their flavour. Scratches on varnish will disappear if a coarse cloth that has been well saturated with linseed ojl is laid over them. Before boiling an em: which has been accidentally cracked, ii i- a good plan to place a little *alt in the saucepan of water. The smell of onions. |}<h. <>r cabbage j s ' quickly removed from pan* by the addition of a little vinegar t" the water ii which they are wa-hed. Do not let -oup l»i>ii. but allow it t® simmer slowly. Mueh «>f the liquid is [wasted in evaj>orat ion. and the best of the flavour is l.i-t if the soup boils or' 5 'heated too quickly.