HOUSEHOLD HINTS

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2951, 24 November 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

A neat hairpin holder is made m crochet in the form of a.high hat. The hairpins are stuck into the crown of the-hat. Before papering a whitewashed wall wasli it over with vinegar, or you will find that the paper will not adhere properly. Tar and varnish may bn removed from the bauds and clothing by rubbing in lard, and then washing with soap and water. To Soften* and Dry AVater-soakod. Shoes.— Stuff shoes thoroughly with paper. This not only absorbs the moisture, but keeps them in shape. To Clean Kid Gloves.—-Take a tahlospoonful of milk and mix with a teaspoonful of ammonia. Apply quickly with u piece of soft flannel. Cockroaches and ants, as well as rats and mice, hate cayenne pepper. If this be scattered about their haunts, they will probably bo soon deserted.

Tarnished gold embroidery may be cleaned with a brush dipped in pulverised burnt alum. Brush off any powder that remains after the cleaning is done. To remove grease spots from silk, apply powdered magnesia. Let it remain some hours, then shake oil. Repeat the application, it necessary, a second time. For Cleaning Gold or Silver Chains.-—Wash well in soap and water, dry on a soft cloth, and polish with a piece of tissue paper. This will make them appear as good as when now.

To Alleviate Burns.—Place immediately on the injured place equal parts of lime-water and linseed-oil. This mixture takes away ad redness and blisters which invariably attend burns.

To Set Delicate Colours in Embroidered Handkerchiefs.—Soak them ten minutes before washing in a pail'of water in which a dessertspoonful of turpentine. has been stirred.

Serge. -If two pounds of fresh ivy leaves are gathered and put into a. pan with one quart of water, and boiled slowly down to one pint, it will be found a splendid renovator for blue serge.

To remove walnut and fruit stains from tins lingers, dip them into strong tea, taking earn to well saturate the nails with it. Afterwards wasli in warm water, and the stains will instantly disappear. Cheese Turnovers.- "Make a short ernsl with dripping; cut some cheese in thin slices, place

it on tho crust, which has been rolled into thin layers, add a little mustard, pepper, salt, and a few drops of vinegar; fold the crust, and bake in a quick oven; cut into fingers and serve.

Flics are not merely annoying, hut they are often positively dangerous, and, therefore, should be relentlessly exterminated from health considerations. There is no doubt that flies, alighting on any and every kind of matter, often convey infection. In India it has been proved that cholera germs aro often carried in this way, and, of course, small-pox and many sorts of fever may be carried in tho same manner. It is, therefore, well to bear in mind that -in waging war against flies, we may at tho same time be saving the household from deadly disease.

White Soup a la Princesse.—Having strained tho liquor from the knuckle of veal, set it aside till cold, take off any fat on the surface, and reheat tho stock; wash half a teacupful of rice in cold water, pick out all discoloured grains, add it, boil for twenty minutes, and flavour to taste. Beat the yolks of two eggs till pale, mix two tablespoonfuls of cream and two teaspoonfuls of milk, stir half a pint of the boiling soup on to this mixture, then pour all into the soup, which should previously be taken off the fire for fear of curdling the eggs. Serve het with croutons of fried bread.

A Remedy for Bad Complexions.—A simple, old-fashioned remedy for a bad complexion of the spotty and “pasty" type is a daily faco bath of parsley water. A quarter of a pound of parsley, bruised and soaked all night in just enough rain water to cover- it, makes parsley water enough for each 'time. Use it thus:—-After washing in the morning, rub your face well with -a Turkish towel; then dab on plenty of the parsley water, letting it dry in. Repeat this four or five' times a day. You will find in a week or two that pimples, etc., will disappear and a healthy glow replace them.

Lemon Jelly.—Rub the yellow rind of three large fresh lemons upon Jib sugar. Pour over it the carefully strained juice of six lemons; and put it into an enamelled saucepan, with loz of isinglass, a pint of water, and a large wineglass of sherry. Stir these over the fire until the isinglass is dissolved. Strain the jelly through a bag; and ;f it is not perfectly transparent, mix it when quite cool with the whites and crushed shells of three eggs whisked with a quarter of a pint of cold water. Let the jelly boil for three minutes, without stirring. Then lot it settle for five or six minutes; and strain it again.

Mayonnaise Sauce. —Required : Two raw {■yolks, quarter of a ieaspoonful of salt, quarter "of a toaspoonful of made mustard, a dust ot pepper, a quarter of a pint of good salad oil, two teaspoonfuls of malt vinegar, and one teaspoonful each of tarragon and chilli vinegar. Put the yolks into a basin, add to them the salt, made mustard, and pepper. Take a wooden spoon and mix them well together for a minute or two. Then drop tire salad oil very slowly on to the yolks. Keep stirring it all the time. Then add the vinegars. If you have no tarragon and chilli, use more malt vinegar. If liked, you can add more vinegar than the amount given. The sauce, when done, should bo as thick as thick cream. Ksep it in a tightly-corked bottle. A Useful Foot-pad.—-Everyone who has much standing to do knows what footweariness is, and yet few people seem to think of relieving it. Take two or three folds of old carpet compressed so as to form a good-sized pad two or three inches thick, with a piece of oilcloth or cheap leather on the bottom, so that it may slide easily along the floor. Make it wide enough to. stand on comfortably, and rather long, so that in ironing, etc., one need not be moving it all the time. Also amongst the kitchen chairs there should always ’be one low one with a cushion, which will often be found most restful, and in which much work can bo done not requiring standing or a higher chair. ■Queen’s Soup—Take two old fowls, wash them well in cold water, and place in a stew pan with enough water to cover. Simmer the fowls till the beasts are quite tender, adding a good sized bunch of parsley. Then take up the fowls and soak the crumbs of two French rolls iii the liquor. Cut the meat off the fowls (preserving the whits meat for a fricassee if necessary), and pound it in yolks of three or four hard boiled eggs. Force this through a coarse sieve with the liquor, return to the saucepan, season with pepper and salt to taste, then add half a pint, of thick cream and serve at once. This is'The most dainty soup imaginable, and is by no means extravagant, if the white meat of the fowl bo saved for a fricassee.

Blinds.—When the early rising ot the sun makes rooms bright at four or flye in the morning, many people suffer from short and restless nights simply because they cannot %lcep in a light room, and never discover the cause. Anyone who has to get up, say, at seven, and who wakes and tosses restlessly about at four, is apt to fall into a heavy, unrefreshing sleep just when they should be getting up. There is a very simple remedy, too. Have either a second blind of dark green, which will quite exclude the light; or, instead of light curtains, have curtains of some thick dark stuff, green for choice; green baiz/ does admirably if you do not want to get a more expensive material. Many people who have complained of and suffered from hopeless _ insomnia have found in this simple expedient a perfect euro.