HAVE YOU EVER TRIED THIS?

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3185, 21 October 1942, Page 2

HAVE YOU EVER TRIED THIS?

When making grapefruit marmalade, use the large holes in a grater for shredding the rind. Saves time and is easier. * * * * When you wish to warm up a joint, let it stand in cold water for three minutes before putting it in the oven. .This will make it taste almost exactly like freshly-cooked meat. S If white handkerchiefs are so discoloured that no amount of boiling and blueing will bleach them get a packet of dye in a colour that will tone with your wardrobe and dip the hankies into the tint. You will be the possessor of some attractive new hankies. * * * * Use greaseproof paper for lining cake-tine, the cake does not stick to greaseproof as it does to buttered paper, but if you have to use buttered paper lay the buttered side to the tin. * * * * Make a cretonne bag the size of a single or double-bed quilt, fill with clean newspapers torn into small pieces, then stitch (as when stitching an eiderdown) to keep the paper in position. These quilts are warm and comfortable and after they have been used a few times the paper ceases to rustle. * * * * Evening shoes should be polished or cleaned at least two days before wearing at a function. This will give time for a few rubbings and for the polish to harden, and there will also be less likelihood of spoiling dresses or discolouring stockings. * # » * For this effective and inexpensive night light take a piece of candle, a long flat-headed nail, three pointed matches and a glass of water,’ Fix the nail into the lower end of the candle and Ihe matches around to prevent the piece of candle from touching the sfdes of the glass; the nail acts as ballast. Float the candle in the water; the light will last a long time because as the candle burns it

continues to float, kept upright 'by the nail until the flame reaches and is extinguished by the water. Very useful in dealing with nervous children or nursing the sick.