HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18292, 31 December 1919, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Wrap eggs in tissue paper to boil them. This will prevent them cracking. Wash mahogany with equal parts of vinegar and water before polishing it. Sprinkle borax over a damp floor before laying down now oilcloth. This will prevent it from rotting. Use silver sand and warm water for scrubbing bread-boards. They should then be well rinsed and dried in tho open air. , Aleut and pudding should not bo put away while hat, and must never bo left in the dish they are served in. An envelope closed with the-white ol an egg cannot be opened by the steam of boiling water as the steam only adds to its firmness. If a cauliflower is tied up in a piece of muslin it can, when cooked, be easily lifted from saucepan to colander with no risk of being broken. Where a house is overrun with mico, and you do not want to keep a cat, the mice can be kept away by painting all round their holes with oil of peppermint. When you havo cooked onions, fill the pan with boiling water and drop a red-nob cinder in; this will dissipate the disagreeable odour. To make a candle burn many hours, put a little very fine tablo salt round the wick; this is said to prolong the existence of the candle for hours beyond the usual time. To clean a velvet coat collar, dip an old tooth-brush in benzine and rub tho collar briskly. It wili look like new. To remove fly-spots from minors and window-panes dip a soft rag in paraffin and rub the glass. To reinovo stains from enamelled sanoepans use crushed eggshells. They will answer tho purpose better than either ashes or sand. Bread gets dry very quickly. Don’t leave it out on tho bread-board, bur put it away in the pan. If you haven’t one, wrap the bread* up carefully in a cloth.