CORNER FOR BUSt BEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

CORNER FOR BUSt BEES.

HAVE YOU A "HINT BOOK.' , TINKER BELL MAKES A i iON. Dear Girls, — '1 here are so 'many hints that can be learnt oy the busy Dee that one cannot hope to remember them all. Viuite a good plan then is to obtain an old exercise book or scrap-book, and write down or paste in it all hints that you come across. By the way, if you discover any new dodge to save work or quicken up some household duty, don't forget to pass on the information so that I can tell the other readers.

This week I have some more hints for you. If you are sent to buy beef for mother, see that the meat is bright red in colour and the fat a rich yellow. This is the hallmark of good meat. When buying eggs you should select ones that have clean, rough shells, as they are to be preferred to those that are smooth shelled and eticky. The most reliable test for eggs is to place them in a basin of water. A newlylaid egg will sink like a stone; an egg that is a few days old will rise a little at the largest end, and a stale egg will assume almost an upright position in the water. An egg that .floats is always bad. When buying fish remember that a fish that is broad and thick with bright eyes, red gills, and scales closely laid and shining, is always to be preferred to one with filmy eyee and brown flabby scales which present a more or less dingy appearance. If you want to keep your kitchen table and shelves very white a"nd clean scour them with a mixture of equal parts of sand and lime worked into soft soap. Grease stains can be removed with lemon juice. To test the heat of an jiven place a sheet of white paper in it. If it blackens or burns the heat is too great; if it turns light brown the oven ' right for pastry; if it turns a dark yellow shade the heavier cakes can be baked; and if light yellow the heat is right for sponge cakes and , light biscuits. It is useful to know, that a teacup full of flour equals four ounces.

These hints are all worth knowing , , so, busy bees, get to work at once with scissors and paste.