Household Hints.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 176, 26 July 1909, Page 4

Household Hints.

APPLE CHUTNEY Six pounds of apple?, 18oz of brown sugar, Gozsalt, 12oz of onions, 12 chillies, three quarters of a teaspoonful of cayenne, one and a half ounces mustard seed, Boz raisins, three pints vinegar, two and a half ounces ground ginget. Core and quarter the apples, cut them up, but do not peel them. Peel and chop the onions, put them in a jar or large pan, add a little water and boil gently tlil it is as thick as honey; then mix it into the apples. Add the rate ins, cayenne, salt, mustard seed, and ground ginger and chillies chopped Stir daily for one week, then bottle The apples used should be rather sour.

GREEN TOMATO CHUTNEY. Six ounces of brown Hugar, 2oz salt, 21b green tomatoes, one pnit vinegar, 3 ounces sultana raisins, four chillies, 4oz of onions or half ounce garlic, quarter of a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, half ounce mustard seed, three quarters ounce ground ginger. Cut up the tomatoes, chop the su'tanas, put tbem into a preserving pan with the vinegar, salt, and onions chopped; cook until it is all soft and moist, then add sugar. Then boil slowly till tender. Rub through a seive Add the mustard seed, ground ginger, and cayenne pepper. Stir well for a couple of days, 'then bottle. Some people like a little apple in this chutney, and if so, add half pound to this quantity.

! SMOKING AND TUBERCULOSIS. | Accurate statistics have been drawn | up by the Henry Phipps Institute on • the relations between the use of tobac|co and the incidence of pulmonary I tuberculosis The figures are so far ' available only for one year, but, the | "Hospital" points out, they are al- ' ready instructive. Altogether there I were 443 male patients during the : year, and of these 322 used tobacco in I one form or another; 119 did not use ! tobacco at all, an \ in the remaining | two no record was made upon the question. The di sease was improved or ' arrested in 38 per cent, of those who used tobacco and in 47 per cent, of , those who did not use it, while 62 per ; cent of the. tobacco users did unfavourably against 53 per cent, of the others. < The preponderance seems sufficient to j disprove the claim which has been ' made that tobacco is a preventative of , tuberculosis implantation. STARCHING. Have collars and shirts quite damp, as the starch gets into them better, j and use the starch while quite hot. j Dip and thoroughly squeeze the breast : and collar on the shirt in the stach, • and wring out; do.the same to the i cuffs; clap the starchede parts and | hnaEg up to dry; afterwards sprinkle ■ with water till damp; roll up for a j few hours then iron. < Embroidery or trimming on under- | linen is sometimes dipped in very thin ! starch. It irons better and-will keep • smooth and uncreased longer if slighj tly stiffened. \ A cupful of stiff boiled starch added : to every two gallons of the blueing ' water for under linen gives it a nice ; smoothness and gloss without stiffen- \ ing perceptibly.

ABOUT A COUGH. I A medical journal i* authority for ] the statement that a tablespoonful of : glycerine in hot milk or cream will at once relieve the most violent attack <of coughing. This is simple, easily obtained, and harmless remedy, and if it keeps good its promise will prove to Ibe of great value. Equally simple | and quite effective is the use of a glyj cerine and water spray through an ■ atomiser; this is applied directly to ] the inflamed or irritated surfaces. In ■ attacks of influenza, colds in the head, ', sore throat, and like troubles glyceri ine mixed with three times its bulk of ; boiled an cooled water is an invalu- . able remedy. j TO KEEP TINWARE FROM j RUSTING. | In a damp house it is often difficult !to keep tinned goods from rusting. It j is not generally known that they may be made less liable to rust if, when new they arc smeared over with unsaltcd lard and placed in a warm oven until the lard is thoroughly melted. Washing and scalding does not appear to at all counteract the effect of the lard. A tinned utensil treated in this way may even be used for salt without it rusting.