HANDY TO KNOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 17, 20 January 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)

HANDY TO KNOW.

Use rock ammonia for softening the washing-up water if soda makes your hands hard and rough.

A pinch of salt added to burnt milk before it gets cold reduces the unpleasant taste.

A cold poached egg need not be wasted; baked in a saucer with seasoning of salt and pepper and a little butter it is delicious.

Use a mixture of strong, cold tea and water for washing varnished woodwork. Allow the mixture to dry on the material, then polish with an old silk handkerchief.

Ink stains on garments should be soaked in a mixture of salt and milk. A teaspoonful of salt to nearly a pill of milk is the right proportion. If the ink has been allowed to dry it will be necessary to soak the stained part in the milk for an hour or two.

After fou have finished starching, put the basin or bowl containing it aside until the sediment settles. Then pour off the water and leave the white substance for a day or two. It will harden into crystals again, and can be used repeatedly.

Eiderdowns can be kept in place on children's beds by sowing to each corner a strip of elastic —about 12in long. To the ends of the elastic sew the press part of a carpet press stud, screwing the stud part to the under side of the bed frame.

Ink spots on carpets can often be removed by washing them with warm milk and afterwards sprinkling with cornflour. The cornflour should be brushed off after twenty-four hours.

Clothes that have been packed away

for any length of time often become very creased. To remove the creases, hang the article on a clothesline in tho bathroom,] and turn on the hot-water tap until the room is full of steam. Leave them for an hour or two and then dry them in the open air, arid press on the wrong side with a rather cool flat-iron.

If beef or mutton dripping is beaten to a cream .and a few drops of lemon juice and a little bicarbonate of soda added it will serve as well as butter for cake-making.

Vegetables that arc grown above the ground, such as cabbages, cauliflowers, peas, should be cooked with the lid of the pan off. Those of the root variety, such as carrots, turnips, parsnips, should be cooked with the lid on.

Salt will often remove stains on linen

if sprinkled on directly the stain is done. The article sliouhl then be immersed in a solution of salt and water.