WORTH KNOWING

Evening Star, Issue 19891, 13 June 1928, Page 10

WORTH KNOWING

1. Roast ham has a finer flavour than boiled ham. Soak overnight as usual. Make a paste of flour and water, roll it out a. quarter of an inch thick, and wrap up the ham in it. Close the paste very carefully so that no juices can escape. Bake the ham in a steady oven for four hours, peel off the crust, and garnish as usual.

2. When washing woollens try giving them a final squeeze through clean soapsuds, and letting them dry with the soap in them. They don’t drip, but dry rapidly, and remain surprisingly soft. 6. Creamed cabbage sounds good, doesn’t it? It’s only cabbage boiled in the usual 1 way, squeezed very dry, and chopped. But then it is stirred into half a pint of thick white sauce, well seasoned, which makes all the difference. Carrots and many other vegetables can bo served in the same appetising way. 4. To remove a dent in furniture, first wet the place thoroughly with warm water, then put four thicknesses of brown paper over it. Hold a fairly hot iron about an inch above the paper, and the heat will go through and make the wood swell, then the dent comes up and disappears. 5. Medicine flavours won’t taste horrid if you remember this simple prescription. Eat a piece of pepermint toffee before any unpleasant medicine, and you’ll quite enjoy it. 6. An attack of hiccups is quickly driven away when you try this little trick: Hold your breath and see how near you can got the tips of your httle fingers together without touching. This engrosses your attention, and when you’ve done it, the hiccups will iiavc gcnel —‘Horae Chat.’