THE HOUSEKEEPER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20152, 12 January 1929, Page 18

THE HOUSEKEEPER.

EGG DISHES FOR TWO.

These recipes make excellent supper or luncheon dishes.

Put two to three eggs into separate buttered egg pipkins, sprinkle with salt and pepper and pour a tablespoonful of thick cream over each. Cook in a moderate oven until the eggs just set.

Put four eggs into a greased gratin dish and cook in a moderate oven until just set, season and coat with three tomatoes, peeled, sliced and cooked in a little butter. Garnish with croutons of fried bread or toast.

Bake two to four large potatoes in their skins. Cut a piece lengthways from each potato, scoop out some of the inside and insert an egg carefuly into each. Cook in a moderate oven until the eggs are just set and pour over a little shrimp sauce. Cut two to three hard-boiled eggs into pieces, puc thern in the centre of a gratin dish, coat with curry sauce, and surround with boiled rice. POLISHING HINT. Instead of using turpentine to thin or dilute furniture varnish, use kerosene. To one part of varnish, add two. or even three, parts of kerosene. Mix well together and put on article to be varnished (furniture or floor) with an ordinary paint brush, pass brush lightly over surface, first removing all dust. One coat of varnish will last for a long time if polished lightly with an old silk duster, or any soft cloth, once a day. Kerosene does not stick like turpentine, and gives a clean, smooth, glossy surface. BROOMS AND MOPS. A point often overlooked by the housewife is the soiled condition of brooms and Inushes. These are apt to become so full of dust as to bo valueless as cleaners. The mops used for dusting polished floors aro usually in similar plight. Where a copper is in use brooms are easily freed from dust by being well shaken in the soapy water. If a copper is not available two tablespoonfuls of laundry soap, well stirred in a pail of hot water, make a good cleaning lather Do not have soda in the water as it softens the brush bristles. The brushes sh uild be rinsed under the cold tap, and will be improved by being stood in salted water for a while. After a good shaking they should be dried out of doors or in a draught. MAKE YOUR BOX ATTRACTIVE. In every house there arc boxes, travelling trunks, etc., which some of us aro obliged to have in our bedrooms, for the average house does not rise to the dignity of a storeroom. Wherever they may be," they aro an eyesore. But a tight-fit-ting cover of sateen or cretonne will transform them, if not into things of beauty, at least into something more pleasing to the eye than originally, especially 'if iho colours be chosen with duo regard to the other surroundings. " MENDING " WALLS. The unsightly marks caused on walls where the pictures hang, due to movement when cleaning the frames and glass, can be prevented bv cutting small squares (a little larger (ban a. postage stamp) of the thick soft felt from an old stair pad.

Fix a fr|uare at each lower coiner at the, back of the frame, using glue or sec.cotine. The felts keep the frame just clear of the wall and are invisible*