HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1221, 7 June 1919, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Wash all furnit-tre f.rst «-!: h vln? Car, then apply a good poJisii. When not using eggs In a milk pudding add a little chopped suet To take grease out of a carpet, apply apirita of turpentine with a flannel Before squeezing a lemon heat It, and twice a« much juice will be obtained. When carpets are faded sprinkle salt slightly damp, and brush with a carpet broom. Wash marble with soap and witer, and rob with a soft cloth and sweet oil to give final polish. Sugar should never be added to batter pudding before boiling or baklag as it makes the pudding heavy. Never throw away Lemon peel. Rang It tip to dry, and use for flavouring milk puddings, blancmanges, etc. When Ironing, rub your iron to clean It on a piece of brown paper sprinkled with rough salt. To soften water In which flannels are to be washed, allow two teaspoonfuls of glycerine to a tub of water. TO remove the smell of cooked onions from a pot, fill it with boiling water and drop in a red-hot cinder. To cut butter in small even squares for the table, use a coarse wet thread as this leaves no ragged edges. Mud spots may be easily removed from elothes by rubbing them with a raw potato. When boiling meat which Is Inclined to be tough, add one teaspoontal of vinegar. This makes It tender, and gives a good flavour. To polish grained wood, soak a flannel in a little linseed oil, rub the wood well, then polish with a dry soft cloth. To remove whitewash from carpets, damp the spats with a mixture of a teaspoonful of ammonia in one gallon of warm water.

A good substitute for a fish kettle, when boiling fish, is to place an old plate at the bottom cf the saucepan •nd tie the fish in a piece of muslin. When making tea, instead of the usual spoonful for the pot, add a lump of sugar. When drawn the tea will be just as strong. When ironin.s with gas, place two irons side by side, (hen put one more on top of each. This will heat four irons on one burner. In using the rind of a lemon for flavouring, remember that it Is only the outer or yellow part of the rind •.bat holds the essential oil. When sweeping a room which has a heavy, old-fashioned dresser in it, remove trie lower drawer and sw >ep under with a whisk broom. When boiling a pudding in a cloth, put plenty of orange peelings in the water. They collect the grease, and the cloth will be easier to wash. To stiffen silk blouses, etc., dissolve a dessertspoonful of gum arable In a pint of boiling v ater, Immerse the silk, and iron while hot. To cut soft cheese into smooth slices nse a piece of stout thread Instead of a knife, and the cheese will not crumble or break. Save coffee grounds, dry them, add m pinch of carbonate of soda, and uss en the knife-board instead of knifepowder. The mixture answers admirably.

A very high po'.rh that will not finger-mark can be given to furniture if—before the polish is put on—it is wiped over with a cloth wrung out of hot water. When making pastry with dripping melt it slightly ar.d beat to a cream before tiMing to the flour. The pastry will then be as light as if made with butter. The same applies to lard. Instead of just beating butter and sugar together for hard sauce, stir it into half a cupful of whipped cream and the while of an ess beaten very light. To war-i: dis-luioths without soaß pour boiling water on a bag of bran, strain, and add to the water equal part:' of powdered alum and powdered chalk, lioil t'»f dishcloths in Urn, then rinse well and dry. They tarn be beautifully clean and fresh. Front doormats should not be beaten, but rolled right side outside two or three times. The dirt will fall ou; quite readily, and a good brushing will compicte <he process. By thi» method doormats '.a*t much longer. Old mats and carpets should not be discarded. The mats may be covered with the Lest part of the cat pet, thus making a pad to stand on while ironing, which is a great boon to tired feet. One of these pads pieced at the bottom of the cellar steps, on which to wipe the shoe 3, keeps the steps much cleaner than without; thus saving labour.