USEFUL HINTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12393, 12 March 1926, Page 5

USEFUL HINTS

Apple and Pineapple Skins.—Don’t throw* away pineapple skins. Boil them with a little water until soft and strain. Allow one cunful of juice to 'three-quar-ters ( of a cupful of sugar, and boil until it is of the consistency of honey. The same applies to apple .peelings. Boil the syruo with the sugar quickly for half an hour. You can diave many a po* of tasty jellv this way. An Artistic Cloth.—To make an artistic table-cover for your porch or vestibule table, get some hessian the length and width of your fable 4 dye it whatever colour you orefer. When dry. press it o\it nicely; then edge it with cretonne. You will he surprised at the result. Curtains, also mats, can be made in the same way. To Clean Copper Metal.—Nothing imparts such a polish to a cooper hath geyser as lgmon juice and snlt. This is the polisher par excellence for all sorts of copper fixtures. Just cut a lemon in half, dip it in salt, and rub it over the entire surface of the article to be cleaned. After removing every particle of the mixture, polish with a soft dry cloth. A Cooking Hint. found to be difficult to line a pudding basin with dough so that it is of equal thickness all round, for in making the lining fit the paste has to be pushed together at intervals. An easier plan, nnd a better, is to take out a threecornered cut from the two opposite sides. When the openings are pressed together the dough lining wiM fit perfectly. A very useful contrivance in the kitchen is that of a small rod, fastened over the sink, on to which the dish mop, vegetable knife, pot scraper, small brufrfr, may; be hung by rneang of a aujali

hook scrowed into the end of the handles of each.

If you have no electric light in vqur linen press try keeping a flash-light torch inside it. Be sure you attach a long string to the torch, or you may find that just when you want it, it has been removed. '

Sew a safety-pin on the outside of your “rag bag,” and as you add a piece of material to the bag clip off a bit and put it on the safety-pin. A glance will tell just what the bag contains, and you will be saved the trouble of hunting through the entire contents. Aspirin for Flowers. —Flowers of all kinds keep fresh for a much longer period if they are placed in a solution of aspirin and water. Fill each vase with water and slightly warm, and into each put an aspirin tablet. The aspirin solution has a wonderfully stimulating effect. Even kinds that do not ns a rule keep well in water last a good while with this aid.