GENERAL HINTS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 34, 3 November 1928, Page 18

GENERAL HINTS

If you warm a lemon before squeezing it, you will get nearly twice as much juice.

Baked potatoes will be quite floury if a small piece is cut away before placing them under the tire. Raisins should be floured before use, to prevent them sinking to the bottom of the mixture.

Orange peel may be usefully saved and allowed to dry ou the hearth. A dying fire will always revive at once if a handful of the peel is thrown on the embers. When making lemonade, save the lemon rinds as well, dropping them into cold water to’ await washing day. If these a’re placed in the boiler, along with the dishcloths and tea towels, you will be surprised at the way they will help to bleach such things which are “so difficult to get white” when washed. Clean oak furniture with warm beer; mahogany with vinegar and water; walnut with paraffin (highly inflammable) ; and ebony with olive oil.

Do not dry rubber boots too near a fire. Heat some bran in oven, pour into boots, and leave till cold. Then re-heat the bran and repeat treatment till insides are dry. Patch linoleum by cutting a piece from each corner. The four pieces when fitted in the hole, form a neat square, and when to eked down, the mend is practically invisible.

Vinegar improves gravy; added to the water, makes a boiling fowl more tender; rubbed into any meat before cooking, reduces toughness; sweetens meat that may be slightly high. Cheese too soft to grate may be cut up small, and squeezed through a potatoricer.

Do not cut a patch for the wall-paper, but tear it unevenly, when it will be less likely to show. To make patch fade to match paper, wet the back with vinegar, and lay in the sun for a time. Rust on steel or iron can be removed readily by rubbing oil of tartar on tliem. Another way is to use very fine emery, and a little oil, or to rub the metal with strong vinegar, in which powdered alum has been dissolved.

Stick cloves all over an orange, then dry it slowly in the oven. This fragrant ball will keep all moths away, and scent your clothes pleasantly.