HOME HINTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

HOME HINTS.

Rubber hot water bottles should be suspended upside down when not in use. Before sewing on hooks and eyes, boil them' in strong soda water. This will prevent them rusting in the wash. Dry the green tops of celery in an oven, rub them down to powder, store in jars, and use as flavouring for soups and stews. To remove coffee stains from a delicate material, brush the marks with pure glycerine, rinse in luke-warm water, and press on the wrong side. , To remove tea stains from linen, mix the yolk of an egg with an equal quantity of glycerine, rub on the stain, and leave till dry. Pause in cold water and the stain will disappear. When you wish to warm up a joint, let it stand in cold water for about three minutes before putting it into the oven. This will make it taste almost exactly like freshly-cooked meat. For cleaning hair brushes, borax is excellent. Dip the brush up and down in a warm solution of water, a teaspoonful of borax, and a tablespoonful t of soda. Do not wet the backs of the brushes. Neglected glass jugs and decanters may be cleaned by filling with stained tealeaves covered with equal parts of vinegar and warm water. Allow to stand for several hours, then rinse in clear, cold water. When yon have upset grease on the kitchen floor, sprinkle powdered bathbrick on it and leave for a time. Then •when the kitchen is cleaned, scrubbing with hot soda water will remove all traces. , If a patent shoe pinches any part of the-foot, a rag .well soaked in boiling water should be placed over the part. If this is done while the foot is in the shoe, the leather will soften to the shape of the foot. Meat will be hard, however good in quality it may be, if, when being roasted, it is not put- for the first five minutes into an oven hot enough to seal the outside of the meat, and so prevent the jiiices from escaping;. Pastry boards, rolling pins, flour bins, or apy other article that has been touched with floor, should never be cleaned with hot water! This thickens the paste and discolours the wood. All such remains may be scrubbed away with cold water if the* job is done immediately after the. articles have been used.-