The Housekeeper. HOME HINTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1910, Page 11

The Housekeeper. HOME HINTS.

Carpet S_wcoping. — A" carpet looks much cleaner and brighter if, just before sweeping, some salt is thrown upon it, or if, after it has been swept, it is wiped over with a cloth or sponge wrung out of clean salt water. This quite removes the dusty look which so soon, gathers upon carpets, and will -brighten the colours. A cupful of coarse salt to a basin of water is the right proportion. To Clean a Rusty Boiler. — Rub the inside of the boiler thickly over with old kitchen fat or grease of any kind, then fill up with water, and boil with a quantity of boda in. Run off the foul water, wipe the boiler, fill up with clean water, boil agsain, run off and once more wipe dry. The vessel should then be available for clothes, but to make sure, boil them iv a large cotton bag. Always after a washing dry out the boiler, and give it a good coat of kerosene. Creased Clothing. — To take creases out of clothing, hang thu garments ovornight in a heated room. If a dress which in creased should be required at once hold it in front of a bright fire, but not so close as to scorch. The creases will quickly disappear sufficiently for the dress to be worn. Cleaning Paint Brushes — So many people paint and touch up their garden railings, etc., that the following hint may be of some use When you havo finished painting put your brushes into a gallipot, in which you have dissolved some soft soap and s,oda in a little, boiling water. Whisk tha brushes round and round in thi6 ; change the water, add more 6oap and soda, and so on until the brushes are clean ; rinse in warm water, and leave them standing in cold water until you wish to use them again. If they have become dry and hard, rinse them in turpentine before washing them. • Wire- Cake-Driers. — These can be bought at the ironmongers from fifteen ponce to half a crown each. Place tho cake upon one of these when turned out, and allow it to roma'in there until cool. The cako is much lighter when cooled off in this manner than when placed upon a plato or taljle. This simple appliance is one- of those little things which are not only useful, but absolutely essential, where correct cooking is required. RECIPES FOR ROLLS. Hot Rolls. — For eight rolls, one and a half ounce each, take eight ounces of flour, a full tcaspoonful of baking powtler, half an ounce of butter, and a saltspoonful o£ salt. Spread tho flour in an enamelled pan, sprinkle tho baking-pow-der and salt ovev its surface, mix well, then rub tho butter into it. This having been done, begin to moisten with milk or buttermilk by degrees, working the dough with a wooden spoon. Nine tablespoonfuls of flour should suffice if the operator works skilfully. When ready turn this out upon a ' floured pastry board, divide the dough into eight equal portions, pat them into round shapes with the spoon, and place them in eight buttorod pattj'pans. Arrange those upon a, baking sheet, wet tho surfaces of tho rolls with a brush that has been dipped in milk, and slip the sheet into a rather bask oven. W'non tho rolls have j:isen and taken a pale brown colour, take them out of the ovon, turn them out of the pans, and serve in a hot napkin. Time to bake,, about from twelve to fifteen minutes. ' French Rolls. — For six French rolls, exactly double the quantities given in tho preceding recipe should bo taken, with the addition of ono fresh egg. Work in tha same way, adding the egg, well beaten at the commencement of the moistenine-, then enough milk to form a firm dough. When -smooth turn this on to a floured pastry board, divide it into six portions, and pat these into elongated oval shapes, and then lay them into wellbuttered French roll tins, brush them over with milk, and set them upon a baking sheet, finishing as above. Vienna Rolls. — The difference here consists in the shape alone. Having worked the dough a's for Frenoh rolls, turn it out on to a floured board, divide it into six equal pottions, and roll these out into sausage shapes, an inch and a-half thick, in tho centre, tapering somewhat towards the ends, curve them in the form of crescents, lay them on a buttered bak-ing-tin, brush them over with milk, and bake for about fifteen minutes . Brown Rolls. — In making these, substitute tho best wholemeal, well dried, for flour ; iv other respects proceed as for hot rolls. Another wholesome variation can be obtained by a mixture in the following proportions: — Five ounces of wholemeal to three of fine well-dried oatmeal, while a milder digestive roll is got by substituting flour for wholemeal, and mixing three ounces of fine oatmeal with it. Sir Harry Thompson's Wholemeal Cakos. — Take two pounds of coarselyground whole wheatmeal, and add half a pound of fine flour, or, hotter still, the same weight of fine Scotch oatmeal. Mix, thoroughly with a sufficient quantity of baking powder and a little salt; then rub in two ounces of butter, and, with a wooden spoon, make into dough with cold skimmed milk or milk and water, soft in consistence, so that it can almost bo poured into the tin ringr which gives it form when baked. In this manner it is to be quickly made into flat cakes (like tea-cakes), and baked on a tin, the rings used .being about an inch high, and seven or eight inches in diameter, each enclosing a cake. Put them without^ delay into a quick oven at the outset, letting them be finished thoroughly at a lower temperature. Tho object in making this bread in flat cakes, or in scones, is to ensure a light and well-cooked product. It is difficult to ensure these two qualities in the form of loaves, except of the smallest size. A larger prqportion of oatmeal, if preferred, can bo adopted by either method. A heaped teaspoonful of baking powder and a saltspoonful of salt per pound of meal will be about correct.

Three women have been appointed to ilia Board of Education in New York. This fact (observes an exchange), coming after tho recent appointment of Mra. Flagg Young as Superintendent of Schools in Chicago, is strong evidence of the important part American women play in the educational world. It is said that Mrs. Young, since coming into her position,, has mggestod many radical reforms, which have at once been adopted by the board. For the first time on record, a woman has won the Harris prize in econoimics at the Northwestern University, U.S! The prize is given for the best thesis of not less than ten thousand words on any economic subject requiring original invertiffation, und tha wfnsur, Mv«. Simons, wm oaa 91 ft largo number of competitors.