WOMEN’S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 46, 23 January 1936, Page 11

WOMEN’S NOTES.

HINTS. i ((By Miss Mary Tallis.) If you spill oil on a carpet, pour a cupful of water over the marks, and you will find that the oil immediately Boats to the top of the water and can be removed easily with a teaspoon, without leaving the slightest stain. To fry fish, clean and wipe as dry as possible. Sprinkle with salt, dip in flour or egg and biscuit-crumbs, and fry in deep fat until' brown. Freshly, made mustard spread on white linen articles on which ink has been spilled, and left for haif-an-hour or longer, will cause the stains to disappear entirely after they have been sponged with water. Cotton curtains are less affected by light than are wool, rayon, or silk. GENERAL.

Preserving lemon juice.—The juice as it is squeezed from the fruit is allowed to remain tor 24 hours until a sediment collects at the bottom of the vessel. Then the clear liquid is decanted and reduced by heat to onethird of its volume—i.e., 3 quarts of juice would be reduced to 1 quart. The heating process should not be done direct by fire, but by standing the vessel containing the juice in a copper or some larger vessel over the fire. On j a large scale a water-bath or steam i circulating in a jacket boiler could bo used. In any case, the vessel in which the juice is heated should be enamelled. 4 he juice can be sweetened by adding from 4 to 5 lb. of sugar for every gallon of juice -before it is reduced by beat. it is bottled when cool, but before bottling it may require straining or filtering. To prevent deterioration by mould the bottles, which are filled to within an inch from the cork (which is then tied down) are placed standing in a flatbottomed boiler. Water is placed in the boiler up to an inch from the necks of the bottles and then heated by direct fire up to 170 deg. F., and kept at that temperature for about 2d minutes. Then they are. removed and laid on one side, never standing. To prevent breaking of the botltes ;it would be well to have a false perforated bottom placed in the boiler. The method of keeping fresh juice, as used in the various navies, is to add 10 per cent, of brandy, that is to say, 1 gallon of brandy to 9 gallons of juice. Preserving orange juice.— Use only glass, porcelain, tin-coated (not galvanised or zinc-coated) or aluminium vessels. Cut the oranges in halves and extract the juice. Strain the juice to separate seeds and coarse pulp from the juice. Have bottles thoroughly clean and scalded; fill them ! to within liin. of the ton, and cork, j Place bottles on their sides on a false | bottom of a boiler and cover with. water. Heat the water to 175 deg. to 185 deg. F. for 30 minutes and re-j gulate the flame to keep the tempera-:

! ture below 185 deg. Remove the bottles and set aside to cool, away from cool draughts of air. How fires start.—More than 90 per [ cent, of the -accidents in the home ; would he prevented if a few common- [ sense precautions were taken. One of the most frequent kinds of accidents in the home are burns and scalds. Most of these happen through sheer carelessness; tlie precautions one should take are so very obvious. Yet people do stand close to unguarded fires when wearing light or inflammable clothes; they do dry clothes too near the fire; they do pour kerosene on fires that won’t quite “go”; they / do carry naked lights about the house and set them down insecurely, or near curtains or draperies; they do stand oil lamps and heaters so that they will topple over; they do clean clothes with petrol and other inflammable spirits indoors and near naked lights. Husbands do leave cigarette ends burning on tables and shelves, and other places where they may start a fire. But there are a few causes of fire that would not occur to everyone’s mind. Oily rags, for instance, kept in a wooden box, may burst into flame of their own accord. Hot ashes put into a wooden sifter may start a fire, and so may the practice of carrying live coals from one fireplace to another. Oil stoves should he filled in daylight, and if the container leaks, it should be mended or replaced at once.