HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1219, 3 June 1919, Page 7

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

J When stewing prunes add a rpoonj fal of marmalade to them. This gives a most delirious flavour. I To keep the bread board a good I colour, nib with a cut lemon, then | v.ash in cold water and place in the f open air to dry. ; The b"st liniment for rheumatism is made by mixing one part of turps and two of olive oil. It is also good ! for neuralgia. Linen blinds can be mad* to look | like new by adding a liUle pr-wdered borax to the last ringing water and ; ironing the l!:nds while drmp. ! To clean a mincer after using, grind ► stale crust* of bread through it. The | bread collect* all the fat, grease, and skin from the small tceJ!'. I A u%2 for old corks: Place In an old | ran and pour a little parafiin on them. L They will the fire as well as 1 wof-d. | Next time you are boiling fish, add , a few drops of vinegar to the water, j Then the fish will be quite firm, and a | beautiful white eulour. Xiekel silver is Wa» not cleaned with plate-powders. Damp a piece of flannel in cloudy ammonia, and rub well on to the nickel silver, thei* polish with a chamois leather. Remember, if you have once wellMarkcned your stove, if you rub it .vith a pad of newspaper every'morning it will keep beaut • fully bright without using more blacklcad.

After peeling onion.'; thrust the knife you have ur-ed once or twice into some earth, if possible. Afterwards wash it at onrc in boiling water, and clean it on a knife-boar*!. Y.lien Pt«aming potatoes, put a ♦loth over them before putting the lid on. They will ta!:c much less time to cook, and be much more mealy than when done in the ordinary way. To lacquer bath taps /ret a gill of lacquer (shellac), make it very hot. then with a camet's-liair brush apply a thin coaling to the tap. Thoy will need no polishing after thstSv.i>l the airik thoroughly well down with boiling water daily. A whole kettle Tu I isn't a drop too much to us?, and you n«:3t tc!:e care to have it boiling. Before hnfcing rotator*-, jf ih**y ar<* nut into hot v.T»«r and let stand for fifteen minute.*:, they will require only half the time for baking, and airmore mealy and palatable. After piling onions it is ofte« dff,]r;ilt t" remove the unplrasant odour fmi.i the hands. Rub the lutnd«with saU, aiul then wash in cold water.

When wrshing windows a little d*y -frtreh add**! to Hoar warm water m>V give them a I*i«rh polish they r.:*e f!-"W"l'ly dried and rubbed with a roft rlulh. To keop steel bright, dip a piece of T.T in a little >«araflin, then in vers fif ashes*, ard nib the steel briskly v : '.'\ it r.HServr.rds, then polish with a clean cloth and dry. If, when you buy a new clothes-line, you put it in a large saucepan of cold wa!.?r and bring it to the boil, let it boil for ten minutes, and then cool down, it will last twice as lone; as usual. After washing blouses, a little salt, vinegar, or methylated spirit vrn into the hands. It will take r.wr.y that shrivelled look, work all jro.in out of the skin, and leave it beautifully soft. Instead of fillincr n jelly mould with cnH water wet it with white of c;rjr either with the fingers or a small brush. You wiii find the jelly will turn out easier ar.d be very firm and bright.

To extinguish flames from gaselier or petroleum. pr-iir milk over them, and they will be put nut immediately, for the milk forms an emulsion with the oil, and prevents the fire spreading. Stale pastry can be made fresh and palatable if sprinkled liberally with cold water and re-baked. Cover whon aken out of the oven and serve quickly. This method would be useless in the case of puiT pastry. TVfore a new saucepan fi!'» ft vith water, add a lump of soda ned rnmn potato peeling*, and let it boil for some hours. Then wash out thoroughly, and all clanger frcn poisoning from the tinned lining will Tt gone. Kor faded carpets, fill a howl with boiling water, and add a teaspoonful of ammonia, dip a sponge in this, and rub over the carpet, doing a smrll piece at a time. Hub dry v.uli a cloth, and the colours will revive wonderfully. A good polish for tinware can ho obtained by making in'o a v/Hh water about one wincglnssful of finely powdered whiting ;< -d a rpnrJe:* "f a pound of ordincrv rioHl >S rfoa~». shredded. Apply -ill, a of flannel, polish with a dry cloth and a little powdered whiting.