WOMEN'S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 95, 21 March 1938, Page 12

WOMEN'S NOTES.

LAUNDRY. (By Miss Mary- Tallis). A few reminders.—Spots on a woollen skirt may be. removed by wearing the skirt in the home for a few days inside out. The friction will do the rest. Linen, when scorched with an iron should be immediately rubbed with a freshly-sliced onion and then soaked in cold water. Old felt hats make excellent iron-holders. Blanket-stitch or cut a fancy edge. If you wish to have the clothes looking more glossy, use soapy water in making starch'. In addition, the iron will lie less likely to stick. Old tea-stains can be removed effectually- from white fabric by dabbing on several applications of full-strength peroxide of hydrogen while the article is wet, and exposed to strong sunlight. Black frocks which have become marked with powder may be cleaned successfully by being rubbed with stale, dry breadcrumbs. New ropelines should be boiled before using. This pi-events stretching, and they- will last much longer. When oilskin coats become sticky it is a sign that they need a new, top-dressing, and an excellent home-made preparation consists of equal quantities of boiled linseed oil and black enamel paint. To every halfpint of the mixture add J-oz of beeswax. Apply the dressing with a brush while hot, and allow to dry. The dressing, of course, is waterproof. COOKING. Two Dainties.—Peach souffles : Ingredients : 4 fresh peaches or small tin of peaches, 3 eggs, 3oz. castor sugar, 1 gill cream, I gill peach syrup (or water if fresh peaches are used), Joz powdered gelatine. Prepare small paper souffle cases by pinning a strip of foolscap 2in. in width round each, leaving about lin. above the edge, with the pin pointing upwards; it is easier to remove this way. Run the peaches through a hair sieve to make a pulee. Separate whites from yolks of eggs; put beaten yolks with sugar in a double saucepan. Place over heat and cook until thick enough to leave a trail on the surface when the spoon is taken out; stir all the time. Remove from cooker to cool, slightly whip the cream and add to the mixture, when it has cooled. Dissolve the gelatine in i gill peach syrup (or water if fresh peaches are used). Add peach puree to other ingredients, then the dissolved gelatine, and lastly the stiffly whisked eggwhites, which must be folded into the mixture. Fill the small eases to -Jin. above the edge. When the souffles are set, to remove the paper band, take out the pin and hold back edge of a knife against the band, and as you. pull the paper it will leave the souffle with a clean-cut edge. Decorate with a piping of whipped cream and rings of glace cherries. Creme Meringues.—lngredients : 6oz castor sugar, 3 egg whites. Have ready a piece of 3-ply wood the size of y-our oven shelf and cover with a piece of foolscap which has been brushed on both sides with olive oil. Whisk the whites of eggs until very stiff; quickly fold in the sugar. Sprinkle the foolscap sheet with castor sugar. Sl]£pe the meringue with two dessert-spoons before you place it on the paper and finish it off at one end. Sprinkle lightly with castor sugar and cook in a very slow oven. When they are set and' very lightly coloured, turn them over and take out the uncooked middles. Leave in the oven to dry out. It must be a very cool oven because the meringue will crack and spoil if cooked too quickly.- Fill with whipped cream and decorate with angelica leaves and crystallised lilac blossoms,, or mimosa balls. The threeply wood is used because it is a nonconductor of heat a.nd therefore helps in the 6low cooking. HOUSEKEEPING.

About your house.—Hot bran, rub bed well into furs, will remove all traces of grease. Beat well to remove bran after the furs have been treated. Faded wool rugs will have much of their original brightness restored if they are rubbed with a piece of flannel dipped in warm water, to which has been added a little vinegar and common salt. Dry ill the open air. Country women should never throw away old felt hats. When cut in strips they make splendid wicks for kerosene lamps. To remove rust from nickelled surfaces apply ordinary petroleum jelly, leave for a few days, then rub off with a rag dipped in ammonia. If troubled with ants in a hanging safe smear the hanging wire with vaseline. No ants will pass, the vaseline and one application will last for weeks. To expel from, and keep black beetles out of, a house, wash the floors over with a solution of powdered borax (a teaspoonful to a quart of water). Electric light buttons can easilv be seen at night if they, are painted over with a little luminous paint. This saves time, temper and bumps. NEEDLEWORK. For the sewing-machine notebook. —; A tablecloth will last twice as long if as soon as there is the slightest sign of wear, four inches are cut off from one side and one end. and all hemmed again. This will bring the folds in new places, as it is in the folds that tablecloths wear first. To keep pleats in frocks,' press in the usual way, then spray well with cold water and iron again until dry. When making a small boy’s suit cut the shirt three inches longer than the pattern. When the material shrinks the buttons can be lowered. When cutting out fine voile or georgette, dip the scissors in boiling water for a few seconds, and then wipe dry. The; hot steel will cut a straight edge. If you have any 501 b. flour-bags, open them out and hem them. ' They make good towels for drying saucepans, while 251 b. flour bags, also opened out, make excellent pudding-cloths. A novel and useful woolwinder can be made with two very large reels, such as shoeriiaker’s thread is wound on Put the reels on long nails and drive the latter into a heavy board about 24in. apart. Put the skein on the reels which will revolve as you wind.'