HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES

Hutt News, Volume XII, Issue 23, 24 November 1948, Page 9

HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES

APPLE DUMPLING

One cup pastry flour, one-half teaspoon salt, one-quarter cup fat, cold water. Mix flour and salt together. Cut into this the fat between the blades of two knives. Add sufficient water to form into a ball that leaves the bowl clean. Chill in the refrigerator. Roll paste one-eighth inch thick. Cut in four squares. Wet the corners of the paste with egg. Place a cored and peeled apple in the centre, sprinkle with a little sugar and cinnamon. Fold paste around and, bake until apples are tender. APPLE DATE PUDDING lib. flour, fib. dates, Jib. suet, fib. apples, l|lb. breadcrumbs, 1 heaped teaspoonful baking powder, Jib. brown sugar. Milk to mix. Mince the suet,'apples and dates. Sift the flour and powder. Mix all the ingredients well together and add sufficient milk to make a soft dough. Boil in a greased and covered basin for four hours. s DARNING An electric torch is very useful when dne wishes to darn neatly. Stretch the material over the glass top and then hold the sides with an elastic baud. If there is any doubt as to which way the strands of the material go switch on the light for a few moments and everything will be quite clear. The rounded glass top makes a splendid surface on which to do the darning, and delicate.silk materials can be repaired in this way with very little trouble.

DYE FROM GLOVES

In these clays of unreliable dyes

it is not unusual to take off one's gloves .and find the hands .dyed in an unsightly manner. Here are two ways to -prevent the dye from running: (1) Turn gloves inside out and with a fairly wet rag rub powdered alum into the skin, working it well into all the crevices. Then stand each glove over the top of a bottle to dry. (2) Break the white of an egg into a saucer. Put gloves on inside out and smear the egg white over the gloves. Dry on the top of a bottle.

FOR FLOWER-LOVERS

Before putting soil into a window box whitewash the inside.- This not only helps preserve the wood but keeps out insects.

To arrange bowers with, strong stalks in a shallow vase, stick them into a raw potato.

IST THE KITCHEN

Coarse salt and bits of newspaper put in a bottle and shaken up witi: a little water win clean the bottle. For polismiig a mirror use line sa'i sprinkled on wooll-an cloth. To seal cracks in floor use a paste of salt, alum and boiling water. When poured into cracks in" the floor KrTs will serve as a cement.

Equal parts of salt and ashes, mixed with water to form a paste and applied about an inch thick to cracks in stoves, will cement them indefinitely.