HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Brasswork can be kept beautifully bright by occasionally rubbing with salt and vinegar. 5~ ❖ ❖ * After making tomato sauce, spread the residue (skins, spice, etc.) on paper and dry it, either in the oven or in the sunshine. When quite dry, bottle and keep for flavouring soups, stews and curries.
To remove the, odour of fish from silverware, add a teaspoonful of mustard to the washing-up water.
When frying fat has become slightly burnt, drop a piece of raw, peeled potato into the pan for a few minutes and then remove it.
Damp salt thrown on a small fire will extinguish it immediately. To clean tennis balls, scrub well with hot water and soap, rinse, and dry in the open air. When fitting linoleum, and there are awkward corners into which to fit if! cut a paper pattern first. Lay this on the linoleum, and it will serve as a useful guide.
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Northern Advocate, 10 December 1936, Page 14
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153HOUSEHOLD HINTS Northern Advocate, 10 December 1936, Page 14
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