HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 22

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

To prevent a mincer from slipping while in use, place a flat pickle-cork between the cap of the lower clamping screw and the table.

An eating-apple cut up and served raw with cold meat is delicious. To improve the flavour of beetroot, add a few cloves to the water the beet is cooked in.

When using a carpet-sweeper -on any carpet, run it along the way of the pile and the carpet will last longer. To prevent onions turning dark when they are pickled, throw them for a minute or two into boiling milk when they are freshly peeled. The milk can be used afterwards for soup or bread-sauce or for stewing rabbits. If you are making jam and have no jam covers handy, just melt a candle in a tin cup and pour the liquid wax over the top of the jam jars. This makes them air-tight. All you need to do then is to tie paper over the tops to keep dust off the wax.

Cut a boiled pudding with a hot knife to avoid making the pudding heavy, or dip a knife into hot water before cutting new bread for the same reason.

Paint a rusty-looking wire mattress with some aluminium iiaint to improve its appearance. Worn-looking baths are so quickly renovated by the use of this quick-drying paint. Place a jam-jar, half-filled with cold water, in the gas oven when cooking meat. The steam from the water rises and keeps the meat tender and juicy. Lay a hot poker on a piece of camphor to rid a room of flies.

To make camphorated oil at home, grate sixpennyworth of camphor into the same amount of sweet oil. Stand in a basin of hot water, cork loosely, and shake occasionally until the camphor has wholly dissolved.

Erase gravy stains on a tablecloth with French chalk. Leave the chalked spots for a few hours and the grease will be absorbed and the cloth spotless.

Dust a small quantity of dry flour over the top of a cake before commencing to ice it The icing will then be less likely to run down the side of the cake.

Add a piece of dripping to the water in which green vegetables are boiling and so prevent it from boiling over. Home-made Furniture Cream.—Put half a pint of turpentine into a jar, and stand the jar in a saucepanful of boiling water well away from a naked light. Add 2oz. of beeswax, which has been shredded finely, and leave till the wax has dissolved. To half a pint of warm water add a spoonful of soft soap. Mix well together, then add the beeswax and turpentine and mix again.

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