HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 August 1933, Page 13

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCE. If you want to keep a raw egg fresh, cover it with cold water. Fires that are dull will brighten immediately if a teaspoonful of granulated sugar is sprinkled over the coal. After being picked watercress should be placed in cold salted water to get rid of all the insects.

When washing glass or silver add a pinch of borax to the water. It will make it shine, and all stains and marks will be removed.

< If silk stockings are given a final rinse in clean water to which a little vinegar has been added, this will remove all traces of soap and preserve the silk.

Wringing machines, after use, should have a piece of wood inserted between the rollers about fin thick, lin wide,

and Gin long. This allows a current of air to pass through which dries them, and so prolongs their life for many years. Tomato soup made with milk is apt to curdle when reaching boiling point. One teaspoonful of cornflour mixed' with a little cold milk and added to the soup just before it boils will prevent this. 'The result will be a nice creamy soup._

Loose covers should be made in sections—arms, back, and seat in separate pieces Leave good margins to tuck well in, and press-stud together at back and front. In this way 7 , both cutting and making are simplified, and the sections are very 7 easily -washed and ironed.

Nutmeg graters are usually very bothersome to clean. If, instead of being washed, they 7 are warmed in the oven for about 15 minutes after lemon rind, cheese, or other non-sugary 7 commodities have been grated upon them, the leavings will become dry and brush, off easily 7 . Use a dry, clean, fairly stiff brush.