HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Northern Advocate, 16 April 1932, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Eomember beef loses only 3oz. to the pound in baking, 4oz. in boiling and ooz. in roasting. * * * •# To prevent greens from smelling while cooking, put a piece of dry toast titd in a muslin bag in the water, * * * * If eggs you arc about to boil are cracked, add a little vinegar to the water, and they can be boiled as satisfactorily as undamaged ones. • • • • Take great care of the milk; unless you have a very cool place to keep it, boil it as soon as it arrives. I Keep it covered with a clean muslin! cloth. * # •" * * Don’t throw bones that have been boiled for soup into - the dustbin. Put them at the back of the -fire, bank up with well-damped small coal, and they will, burn 'for hours. * » * * If you want a cake to keep moist place a perfectly sound apple in the cake-tin. The apple should be renewed as soon as it shows any signs of withering. * * • * Frost-bitten vegetables should be soaked in cold water for one hour before boiling. A piece of saltpetre should be added to the water in which they are cooked. * » * * If the boiler immediately after use, and while still warm, is rubbed all over with any good household soap, it will prevent rust, and will help to make the mds when the boiler is filled for the next washing day. ♦ * * * If rubber rollers of a wringinguachine become sticky, as is often the ■ase after wringing flannels, rub them with rag moistened with paraffin, wipe dry, and they will bo equal to icw. * • * • Tomatoes should always bo skinned )oforc being used for salad. To do his easily, .place the fruit in a basin iid pour boiling water over it. Let tand a minute, and then drain. You rill find that the skin will then come IT without any trouble.

A deal table rubbed over with a lemon, left to dry, and then scrubbed with sand will be snowy white. * * ♦ ♦ To clean a black dress take a dozen ivy leaves and steep them in boiling water. Leave till cold, then rub well over the stained parts. This liquid will remove all stains and make the cloth look quite fresh.