THE HOME.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4460, 21 October 1933, Page 3

THE HOME.

MANAGING ANOTHER YEAR. You just can’t afford redecorations this year ? Never mind ! A thorough cleaning of wall-paper will cheer your rooms. Wall-paper can be greatly improved by being cleaned With bran. The bran should be sprinkled on a dry, flat sponge, and rubbed over the wallpaper. Directly the bran appears soiled it should be thrown away and a fresh supply used. Finger-marks that cannot be removed by the application of bran should be gently taken out with indiarubber. When wall-paper is spotted with ink the marks usually yield to a weak solution of oxalic acid and water. This should be applied with a paint-brush (two or three applications are sometimes necessary), and should not be left on for more than a moment, as it may affect the colour of the wallpaper. The best plan is to press white blotting paper over the spots after each application. To remove grease marks from wallpaper, mix some pipeclay with water until you have a thick paste. Apply this to the stains, which will nearly always vanish after a few hours. If not very dirty, you can clean your wall-paper simply by brushing it with a soft broom covered with a clean, soft cloth. This brushing must be done in straight lines, and always in the same direction.

If the wall-paper is too dirty and stained to be cleaned in this way, then wash over the dirty portions with a soft cloth soaked in benzine. Rub with light, even strokes, one way of

the paper; then neither the colour nor the pattern of the paper will be affected.

If the wall-paper has been varnished cleaning it for another year’s service is a very simple matter. Simply wash it over with a flannel dipped in cold, weak tea. Afterwards polish it with a 1 dry, soft cloth, rubbing from side to sidie rather than with an up and down movement.

If the wall-paper near the door or around the electric light switch is badly worn, then paste on new pieces “ jagged ” at the edges, for then the join will be scarcely visible, whereas clean, even edges are very obvious. Cleaning wall-paper with dough is quite a good plan, but, of course, a very different dough is needed from that used for bread. Wall-paper dough should consist of two pounds of flour, then add to it a heaped dessertspoonful of salt, the same quantity of soda, and a heapedup teaspoonful of salt, the same quantity of soda, and a heaped-up teaspoonful of crushed lump ammonia. Mix this with a' pint of water, preferably rain-water. Pour it into a greased tin, and steam for half an hour. While still hot, knead the mixture thoroughly; then take a small handful of it and rub gently over the paper. You will be amazed how much dirt will come off your wall. GENERAL. Before washing cut-glass keep it in a warm room for several hours. The water should be as hot as your fingers can stand without discomfort. Pour into the water a generus amount of household ammonia. Rub all crevaces with a stiff brush covered with a lather of white soap. Scrub fairly hard; then rinse the glass in clear water of the same tempeacure, and dry with a piece of soft linen. Dried coffee grounds, to which a pinch of carbonate of soda has been added, makes a splendid cleaning medium for steel, either knives or curbs or the polished surfaces of fireplaces. Finish off with a clean, soft cloth. In mlixing mustard stir with a knitting needle; then the mustard can be made in the vessel in which it is to be served, and there is no waste or untidiness. To boil milk without burning before putting the milk into the saucepan bod rapidly for a few minutes a couple of tablespoons of water; then pour out the water and put in the milk. This is a trick worth trying. However, if the saucepan is a large one add more than two tablespoonsful of water—add enough just to cover the bottom. When making a boiled pudding grease the basin in the usual way; then shake coarse brown sugar thickly over the base and the sides. This makes a toffee-like crust, much beloved by children. USEFUL RECIPES. MOCK GOOSE. Put a layer of thin slices of fry in a baking dish, then a layer of sliced potatoes; sprinkle generously with chopped sage and onion and add alternate layers of fry and potatoes till the dish is full. Dredge well with flour, season with pepper and salt, pou ! r over all I cup water and cook in a slow oven about 2 hours. CREAMED SALMON. One large tin of salmon, 2oz. but ter, 1 pint milk, 2 tablespoons cornflour, soz grated cheese, breadcrumbs, pepper and salt. Make some white sauce with butter, cornflour and milk season well and put in a fireproof dish. Flake salmon (seeing that it is free from all bones) stir it into the white sauee and cover the top with grated cheese and breadcrumbs. Bake until hot and nicely browned. APPLE SANDWICH. Half-pound butter, 2 breakfastcups flour (sifted), 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 or 3 apples, 1 culpful clean currants, 1 piece peel, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1 lemon, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons sugar. Rub butter into flour, then add baking powder, mjake into a firm dough with water. Roll out to required thickness; mince all other ingredients together and mix in egg last. Place mince between pastry and bake. LEMON PEEL RECIPE. Peel 5 oranges or lemons; take Mb sugar, E- pint water, and a good pinch of salt. Peel fruit into shapes, put peel into cold water and salt, and leave for three days. Then drain it, plunge into boiling water and boil until tender. Make a syrup of sugar and water. Pour this on to the cooked peel and simmer for half an hour or more. Lift out and place on sieve or enamel plate. Scatter a little fine sugar over it, leave to set and then store in a clean dry box. Any syrup left over can be used again for the same purpose or for stewing fruit to save sugar. PARKIN. Oatmeal lib, flour Mb, syrup 1 tablespoonful, brown sugar Jib, dripping 60z., soda l teaspoonful, nutmeg, warn water 1 cup, ginger li

teaspoonfuls. Melt fat and treacle, add dry ingredients and stir well. (Add water or milk if too dry.) Pour into a greased tin. Bake in a cool oven two hours. These biscuits are hard and chewy, and peel or sultanas may be added if desired.