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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32360, 17 November 1943, Page 2

HAVE YOU EVER TRIED THIS? When making a curry grate a raw potato into it about 15 minutes before serving; much nicer and simpler than thickening it with cornflour or flour. As you finish each finger of a glove you are knitting turn it inside out and leave inside the glove. Having it out of the way the other fingers are easier'to do. Coconut macaroons can be quickly made by stirring into a tin of condensed milk as much desiccated coconut as the milk will take up. Bake in a moderate oven till light brown. Damp the new doormat before using for the first time and do so every week during dry weather. Merely sprinkle the mat with clean water and the bristles will never break or fall out. Next time you clean out your cupboards or chest-of-drawers fix the new clean paper at the bottom with drawing-pins; this will prevent the paper from slipping about and becoming torn and crumpled. When wanting hard-boiled . eggs boil five minutes or longer, then put them . into cold water. Afterwards roll lightly on a board, end and sideways; they will peel perfectly and the whites will not be chipped. This little wool-holding bag is much less cumbersome than some now sold: From a piece of silk make a bag measuring 7in. by Tin. Work a hole like a small buttonhole in the centre of the bag and put a draw-string in the hem. Place the ball of wool in the bag, thread through the hole and hang it on your arm . Keeps the wool ql'ean too. Scones made with thick milk will be much lighter if the milk is well whipped before being added. Sew a tiny label bearing your name and address in each of your best gloves; then if you lose one the finder knows she can return it to you. If rice which is to be soaked, for a pudding is put into a vacuum-flask full of boiling water and left overnight, it will then be half cooked and ready for milk to be added. When making a baked-milk cereal add a pinch of salt to the pudding before commencing to cook. This eliminates all risk of the mixture sticking to the dish and imparts a nicer/flavour to the pudding. Nail-white pencil is excellent in place of tailor’s chalk to mark through the perforation holes on a paper pattern and when using dark material. For lighter material a dark eyebrow pencil serves the same purpose.