The Housekeeper,

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1906, Page 11

The Housekeeper,

,* HOME HINTS. Cut Glass. — When washing cut glass add a little ammonia to the suds. It gives a brightness to the glass that nothing else will. To Curl Feathers.— To curl a feather boa that has been damped with, rain or dew, rub in a handful of common salt and shake until dry before a bright fire. A Slow Fire. — To keep a fire smouldering all night put on a large piece of coal, not too close to the bars, and a few pieces of small coal at the back. Fill the back and sides of the lump of coal with damp coal dubt. A fire done this way will smoulder for quite seven hours. Greaso Spots. — To remove the greasy appearance from a rosewood polished table, wet the inside of a piece of linen rag with a little methylated spirits and pass quickly, lightly, and uniformly over the surface. < Camphorated Oil. — To make camphorated oil at home, get three pennyworth of camnhor and three pennyworth of sweet oil. Put the camphor in a jar, then add the oil to' it. Stand on stove till the camphor is dissolved, and you have pure camphorated oil. To Clean Alabaster. — Clean alabaster well with soap and water ; there is nothing better. Stains can be removed by washing with soap and water ; then whitewtish the stained part ; let it stand, for a few hours, then wash the whitewash off, rubbing the stained part thoroughly. Grease Spots on. Carpets. — Make a paste of powdered fullers' earth and turpentine and lay it on the spots. Then let the fullers' earth remain till quite dry, when it may be swept off. If the spots be very bad it may be necessary to rub the paste into the carpet, but the rubbing in should be done with discretion, for otherwise difficulty may be found in brushing out the fullers' earth from tile wool How to treat blighted Pofc-plants. — When a plant i» very badly blighted, it is a good plan to wrap round the pot carefully with a cloth, so as to prevent the earli from falling out, and then to sous* it up and down in a bucket of lukewarm water The addition of a little coarse tobacco to the water will make it more efficacious as a blightdestroyer; but, in any case, it would be well to look carefully for blight again in about three days' time, and to repeat the process then if necessary. RECIPES. Potatoes Fried Whole. — Choose the potatoes as nearly of oiie size as possible, peal and parboil them, dry them in a cloth, dip in beaten egg, then in savoury bread orumbs, and fry in plenty of boiling dripping, which must be perfectly free from, salt, or the potatoes will not be crisp. Shake them about from time to time, and when they are a nice pale brown, drain them from, fat, and >erve n x hot dish covered with a serviette, and garnished with fried parsley. Many people who do not like potatoes! c loked in the ordinary way will enjoy this dish. Cream-of -rice Pudding. — Take one quarr of milk, '-ur tablespoonfuls of rice, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one saltspoonful of salt. Put the milk, rice, sugar, and salt together in a pudding diah, stir them until the sugar is dissolved, then place tho dish in a pan of water, and bake it in a slow oven for three, hours, cutting in tho crust which forms on the top once during the time. Should the pudding become dry, pour over it a little more milk, but this will not happen unless!* the tire is too hot. When done, it ought to be creamy inside, with the grains of rice almost dissolved in tho milk. The long exposure to heat changes both the sugar and the starch, and gives them an agreeable flavour.