The Housekeeper.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 13, 15 July 1905, Page 11

The Housekeeper.

HOME HINTS. Rusty Boilers. — One often hears complaints that tho washhouse boiler rusts and ironinoulds the clothes. This may be easily piuvenced by rubbing the boiler directly 'it is emptied and virile still Y?aiin, with any 'good Ihousehoid soap. Give it a good coating of soap, lor tne &oap will not only prevent rust, but will help to make the suds whi'ii the boiler is failed lor the next washing daj . When dumping c.othes use hot' v ater. ' It damps the clothes moro evtin.y thaa cold. Ironing fcjlarchud Things. — If you want to prevent your Hat iron sticking, rub it, after heating, and before beginning to iion, on a board well sprinkled with bath brick. In Drawing Poultry. — In drawing poultry, if you break the gall bag, soak the bird half an hour in cold water in which a little soda has been dissolved, and the bitter taste will disappear, i , Stale Crusts.— Bread ci limbs for crumbling fish for frying can bo mado from Stale crusts. Dry slowly in the oven, crush until quite fine, and store in an airtight tin. 'ihey will keep for years, and are always ready for use. Eggs for Invalids.— To boil eggs for invalids, bring the water to the boil, then take the saucepan off the fire and place the egg in it for five minutes. This will cook the egg perfectly without making the whilo hafd and indigestible. An egg intended for a young child should also be boiled in this way. Fried Fish. — When frying fish, if a little salt be added to the fat, the flavour of the fish will be gically improved. When eggs are dear, instead of egging and bread-crumbing fish for frying, just dip the fish in milk and tlien seasoned breadcrumbs, and you will be glad of it. Tape tho Corners of Sheets.— Very often sheets and tablecloths are returned from the wash with torn corneis, tho result of their being pegged on the line by the corners when hung out to dry. _ It is wiser when hanging out suoh articles to throw thorn well over the line, and to peg on lo the double material, but as lniuidresi.es -are very often apparently avereo to doing this, much darning of torn corners is saved by taping them. Tho tape is laid on flat, and hemmed down for two or three inches on each side of the corner. Choosing Fish.— ln tho choice of fish, one that is broad and thick of its kind is to be preferred to those that aro thin and narrow. See also that tho eyes are bright, the gills red, the scales closely laid and shining, and that tho li(ih feols stiff. Stalo fish has always a limper feel, thi« eyes become filmy, tho scales brown ana flabby, and the wholo presents a dingy appearance. Corlvs.— Corks for bottling houie-mado wines should be dry uud sound, and have been first soaked in a little of tho wino they are intended to enclose.

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