HAVE YOU EVER TRIED THIS?

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3153, 5 August 1942, Page 2

HAVE YOU EVER TRIED THIS?

When you have no fresh fruit or jam for a tart, try some of these filings: Treacle or syrup with currants, sultanas and raisins sprinkled sparsely throughout; syrup and bis-cuit-crums; custard and currants or custard with sultanas.

To make a man’s frayed collar like new do eight rows of small machine stitching very close together along the worn section and launder in the usual way. Quite invisible.

When cooking peas and carrots for the same meal cook them together. Cut the carrots into dice and put in the same" saucepan. They both have a lovely flavour when cooked and look very attractive when served.

To vary fried liver, cut the liver crosswise into very thin slices, dip these in flour, fry quickly in very hot fat (5 to 8 minutes), season with finely-chopped sage-leaves and serve with mashed potato (or steamed onion and potato cooked and mashed together).

To make a tin of spaghetti go further (and makes a nice change),

empty contents into a deep enamel plate, cover with slices of * cheese, heat up well in the oven and spread oh buttered toast.

Wheatmeal scones are delicious if a little left-over coffee is added l *0 the mixing milk. Add a few chop-ped-up walnuts before the liquid.

Soft tomatoes can be made firm again by placing them in cold salted water for about an hour.

Whbn putting out shirts fasten the loose collars on to the front buttons; saves pegs and pegmarks'. When felt slippers develop holes in the toes darn with wool to tone with the slippers; they will last twice as long.

Add a desertspoonful of gelatine soaked in cold water to left-over stew, set it .in individual mould and serve with salad for lunch, or use cut slices for a nourishing sandwich filling.

A nice addition to plain oatmeal porridge is a sprinkling of raisins served on top of the porridge with, a dab of whipped cream. Useful for “picky” folk or invalids.

When the house I live in was overrun by rats I found a piece of biscuit or a small piece of raw sweet potato sprinkled with vanilla was an irresistible bait; I often caught , two at a time.