Household Hints

Southland Times, Issue 22487, 23 January 1935, Page 5

Household Hints

Cleaning Windows. A good method of washing windows is as follows: Use. tepid water, with ammonia added in the proportion of eight tablespoonfuls to a pailful of water. Rub the window hard with a cloth rinsed in the water and well squeezed. Then dry with a clean cloth, and polish with a chamois leather or piece of newspaper. Improve Your Jellies. Jellies are greatly improved by the addition of a little unsweetened condensed milk. Make the jelly in the ordinary way with rather less water than usual; when it is nearly cold and just about to set, add sufficient of the milk to make up the required liquid. Beat vigorously until the jelly sets into a light sponge.

Prawn and Caper.

Arrange lettuce leaves on individual plates. Arrange on each tinned prawns mixed with mayonnaise, and sprinkle lavishly with chopped capers. Serve cold.

Party-Time Hints. Cream goes much farther if the white of an egg is beaten into it. If it is forced through an icing tube into fancy designs this will prove economical and decorative.

A wafer biscuit, placed on the plate before ice cream is put on, will prevent the ice from melting quickly or slipping about on the dish. Chopped crystallized fruits, sultanas, or seeded muscatels make an unusual addition to ice cream.

To Wash Real Lace. Handle the lace with great care; do not rub, but squeeze it gently. If a bad colour,,put it in a jar with a little soap jelly, place in a pan of water, and simmer gently for two or three hours. Rinse well, stiffen-with weak gum water, roll in a cloth, for a few minutes, place on a thick felt, open out, and iron carefully, using a small and rather cool iron; press out the points well. To Mend China. Broken china can be quite successfully mended at home. Vases, ornamental plates, figures, etc., can be repaired with an almost invisible mending as long,, of course, as the pieces have been carefully retained. Strong liquid glue for this purpose can be now bought in tubes for a few pence. The first thing to make sure of is that the edges to be joined together are thoroughly clean. They should be. washed in hot water, and if any previous attempt at mending has been unsuccessfully made, they should be scrubbed with a nail brush dipped in strong soda water. When the edges are dry handle them as little as possible. .Apply the liquid glue to the edges, seeing that all parts of the china are evenly covered, but being careful not to use too much. Then the glue should be'left for several minutes until it is apparently almost dry. Then the edges should be firmly pressed together and held so for a few minutes. When it is apparent that the edges are binding together, rest the article down in such a way that there is no strain on the join. Leave it for twenty-four hours and then remove, with a knife blade if necessary, any surplus glue that may have been squeezed out of the join.