HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 February 1932, Page 2

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Salt and vinegar will remove stains from discoloured teacups.

* * * * Vinegar added to blacklead gives a more lasting polish to Jne grate.

Onion skins washed and put into soup will heip to brown it and give it a flavour.

Before squeezing juice from, lemons put them in the oven for a minute. You will get twice as much juice.

To clean linen bliuds, rub them with a clean cloth dipped in oatmeal, changing the oatmeal as it gets dirty. . * * *

A cut lemon rubbed over fishy knives will entirely remove the unnleasant odour of fish that invariably clings to them.

If a brick is used for au iron stand, the iron will hold its heat much longer than when an ordinary stand is used.

After cleaning pictures, test all the cords before putting them up again, and if they are at all weakened put new ones.

A teaspoonful of turpentine added to either boiled or raw starch gives a fine gloss to the clothes and prevents the irons sticking. -v. * * *

Clean glazed tiles by rubbing them with a cut lemon. Leave them for about a quarter of an hour, and finally polish with a soft duster. * * * *

Paraffin oil is better than soap and water for varnished paint. It does not destroy it. Wipe afterwards with a cloth wrung out in hot water.

Rub the stove over "while hot with •a newspaper dipped in a little soot and polish with another newspaper. This removes all grease and saves blacklead.

■ To cool jellies or blanc mange in a short time, take a handful of «alt and the same of soda; put it in a bowl of water and stand the jelly mould in it.

To keep spoons and forks bright, after washing them, put them to stand a minute or two in a jugful of very hot, clean, soapy water with a dash of ammonia in it.

All household pans should bo kept on shelves made of strips of wood, so that plenty of air can get to them.. This keeps" them sweet and fresh for use.

To stop a hole in a bucket temporarily, make a stout knot in a double piece of string, pass both ends thiough the hole, and ‘tic a big knot on the other side. Cut off the eads. * * « *

Beef -or mutton dripping, slightly warmed and beaten up with little baking-powder and a teaspoonful of lemon-juice to edch half-pound of fat, is as good as butter for cakes. * * * *

When making short-crust pastry try adding to the water with which you .mix it just a little lemon-juice; it makes it lighter, and also improves the flavour.

To destroy moths in carpets wring a thick towel out of water, lay it on the carpet, and iron over it with a very hot iron. This cause.s steam ito go through the carpet, which destroys the grubs.