HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23631, 15 October 1938, Page 27

HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS

Milk can be prevented from boiling over by the use of an outer saucepan containing water.

Add a little sugar to the water in which old potatoes are boiled, and their flavour will be improved. # « w Young beetroot leaves are a splendid substitute for spinach, cooked in a similar way. * * * The following is very helpful to those who suffer from perspiring hands:—Cologne water, 4oz: tincture of belladonna, Joz. Rub the palms of the hands several times daily with a bit of gauze wet with this solution * * # A housewife who arranges to cook rice on the day she is washing should be careful not to throw away the wate’ in which the rice has been boiled This is a splendid stiffening for light muslin articles and handkerchiefs. * .f. * It you want oo economise eggs in a recipe which asks for several, use half a teaspoonful of baking powder, and two tablespoonsful more liquid for each egg you leave out. Should you be an unlucky possessor of a wrinkled skin try a course of radishes and note the result! Eat them with bread liberally spread with butter with at least one meal every day for three months, and you will quickly notice a change in your skin •f * Save the water in which rice has been boiled for stiffening delicate materials. Dip the article or garment into this, remove without wringing or rinsing, and when almost dry press with a moderately hot iron. V -Y- » A teaspoonful of glycerine added to a pound of flour in cake-making is a great improvement, and the cake will keep fresh longer. Also the grated rind of an orange or lemon added to a cake mixture not only gives a nice flavour, but prevents it from becoming stale. •f’ Always sweep rugs and carpets the way of the nap. To brush against it roughens the surface and tends to force the dust into the carpet instead of out of it. To brighten the colours, mix together bran and salt in equal narts and scatter the mixture on the carpet: then sweep off with stiff brush * * » To keep cream flannel trousers from shrinking,—Prepare a warm, soapy lather by dissolving three ounces of borax and a packet of soap-flakes in hot water. Place the trousers in this and wash quickly. Next place them in a second warm bath containing “ flakes ” and one dessertspoon of ammonia, wring out of this and rinse in luke-warm water. Give a final rinse in cold water, to which add just a squeeze of blue, lift the trousers out without wringing, and hang in the wind. When nearly dry. remove and press over a cloth.