WOMAN TO WOMAN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 226, 20 June 1936, Page 20

WOMAN TO WOMAN

For Mutual Help

All those readers who require help in any matter,of household management, cookery, dress, etiquette or needlework are invited to put their problems before us, When every effort will be made to assist them free of charge, the only condition being that the full name and address is given. This is not for. publication, but for record purposes only. Those requiring a reply by post are asked to send a stamped and addressed envelope. A prize of half-a-crotvn is given each week for the best housewifery hint re-, ceived for this column by “Womans World Competition.”

The prize of 2/6 this week goes to Mrs. D., Petone.

A Substitute for Suet. Get a pound of butcher’s fat trimmings, put into the oven to melt, and pour off the fat as it melts. When cold chop finely and use this as shredded suet. This will keep good for weeks, and less is needed for cooking than when suet is used—Mrs. D.. Petone.

Slippery Eiderdowns. Try this successful method of keeping. aAconstantly slipping eiderdqwn from falling off the bed: Buy 2j yards —for a single bed—of 36-ineh material, preferably a length of cheap Japanese silk, to time with eiderdown covering. Put it over eiderdown at foot of bed and tuck well in under mattress either side and at the foot of the bed.—Mrs. K.,-Wellington.

Home-Made Cochineal. Take a beetroot, wash and pare it, and then grate it. Put the grated beetroot into a bag and squeeze out the juice. Boil about one tablespoon of water with eight lumps of sugar ti-1 it. forms a syrup. Then add beetroot: juice and bring to boll again. It ls now ready for use.—“ Sunshine,” Martinborough. Easily-Made Meat Safe.

Take an old pram wheel, or any wheel o£ similar size, and cover one side of it with a piece of unbleached calico by whipping it on round the edges. Then take one yard of mosquito netting, join it on to the calico all round and join together up the side. Insert a wire through the middle of the wheel to hang it up by, and fix a hook on the inside to hang the meat on. Make a hem round the bottom of the, net, and thread a harrow, tape through it to draw up when Hie meat Is hanging on the hook.—-Mrs. MeC. Palmerston North.

A Timely Butter Hint. To soften buffer, which gets so bard in cold weather, fill a basin with hot water, then empty it, and turn it upside down over the butter. In a few minutes the steam will have softened the butter without, spoiling its appearance.—A.T., .Masterton.

Pillow-Case Making. Sew the buttons on to the actual pillow and make buttonholes on each side of the 'open ends of the pillowcase. The buttons must be sewn on with a fairly loose shank to take the double layer of buttonholes, and thus avoid buttons being wrenched off in the mangle.—“Hah,” Wellington.

A Useful Duster. To make- a good duster fake two Hirds of butter muslin and sprinkle a few’ drops of paraffin on it. Roll up tightly and keep in an airtight tin for a day or so. This will dust and polish beautifully and the constant use of the duster is a protection against moths and other insects. The paraffin should be renewed occasionally.—“Snowy.’’ Greytown.