HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Oatmeal should not be bought in lwp quantities as it quickly becomes ttik and sour. ■ • •

L When meat is being roasted and tM [is any danger of it becoming too toowifclS |place a basin of water in the oven. TW steam will prevent scorching and tilv meat will cook better. If you add the juice of a lemon making a cake with dripping the ctJ®.- '."/ will taste, when cooked, as though it had been made with the best butter. ; T | If suet dumplings boil into "the watet||| they were boiled too quickly or contained too much baking powder. " teaspoonful of baking powder to - pound of flour is enough. If you put ordinary blue into tba water for cleansing windows yon wiß frpd they will polish more quickly uijj. they will retain their brillianev mock longer. "

j Marks of burnt milk may be remo?Ht from pie dishes by rubbing them with salt. If thev are very obstinate nuSJ||§g uttlecrushsil eggshell with tlie salt. U~!f§ 1 j there is no shoe polish to h .. had, lemon juiee makes an excellent soks§|| stitute. A few drops sprinkled, on blade or tan shoes and rubbed briskly witk eon, duster will give a brilliant polish. / After washing glass rinse it in water and then plunge it into cold ... in which a generous handful of stuck has been dissolved. Drain the .glasswaH ' until perfectly dry. Then rub with soft cloth. Cut glass should be polisbel with a fine soft brush, which will 8®! ' :nto all' the cuttings. v - "V/ :