KITCHEN WISDOM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22901, 2 December 1937, Page 3

KITCHEN WISDOM

Clean coffee grounds, like tea leaves, may be used for sweeping floors, to prevent the dust rising. Damp pa'per, torn into shreds, may also be used for the same purpose, ✓ Beetles, cockroaches and other pests may be quite cleared away by the use of borax. Sprinkle it round the kitchen and pantry, and renew it every few days; the insects will disappear in a week. Turpentine, mixed with warm milk, rubbed well on oilcloth, will make it like new. . To peel hot beetroot, plunge them into cold water and skins will peel off like a glove, To remove splashes of whitewash or distemper from the walls, use a few drops of hot vinegar. Before wearing kid gloves that are new, place them in the folds of a slightly damped towel and leaye for an hour. The gloves are thus softened and give easily to the shape of the hand. To clean a white felt hat when you have no powdered magnesia, use arrowroot. , i ■ Kid gloves can be made to look quite new again by rubbing them with the white of an' egg after cleaning and drying them. If tomatoes liave become over-ripe, place in a basin of cold water to which a little salt,, has been added. After a few minutes' immersion in the water, the tomatoes will become quite firm.