A Housewife’s Diary

Southland Times, Issue 23680, 1 December 1938, Page 14

A Housewife’s Diary

Hints About The Home

Dyeing. Provide cotton for future mending by running long stitches into garments that are being dyed. Also dye a piece of material. Take out tacking of cotton, afterwards, and keep by you.

Ink Stains. Add a big lump of salt to a breakfast cup of milk and dip ink stain into this mixture; rub with finger and stain will disappear.

Hot-water Bottle. A pie-dish funnel used for filling a hot-water~ bottle, saves splashings.

Shaving Brush. A shaving brush provides an easy and safe way for washing small china ornaments.

Long Life Heels.

Patch heels of new stockings with pieces cut from the hen. of old stockings of similar colour; neatly sew the patch inside the heel.

For Doors. Stain or paint cotton reels to match woodwork and then nail -on floor as door-stops.

Slipper Repairs.

Sides of old leather hand-bags can be used to repair moccasin slippers.

Clean' Hands. Remove potato on fruit stains from the hands by rubbing them with oatmeal moistened with lemon juice or vinegar. Better Brooms. Strengthen the bristles of brooms by dipping them once a week into scalding soapsuds.

and a teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix together the two mixtures with enough milk to make a soft dough. Drop in small lumps on an oven slide, and bake a light brown. Peanut Slices. Four ounces sweet shortcrust, 3 whites of eggs, IJ cups icing sugar, i teaspoon cinnamon, IJ cups coconut, 2 cups whcle peanuts. Line a swiss roll tin with the shortcrust. Spread with raspberry jam. Beat the whites up stiffly with pinch of salt, add icing sugar, coconut, and peanuts. Spread evenly over the raspberry pam.

Electric Switches.

Luminous paint round the mount of an electric light-switch will always make the switch easy to see in the dark. >

Eiderdowns. A cup of vinegar added to the water in which * eiderdowns are being rinsed will brighten the colours. Wash eiderdowns in a tepid soap-flake solution, pressing and squeezing them as with woollens.

Clothes Basket. Fix castors at the bottom of the clothes basket and push along with a foot to save constant bending.

“Windproof.”

Coats can be made much v--.rmer it some pieces of chamois leather are used, back and front, as an interlining.

Kneeling Mat.

An excellent kneeling mat can be made from a' portion of an old mackintosh. Make into a bag and fill with rag.

Brown Shoes.

Stains from broWn shoes can be removed by rubbing them with a sponge dipped in hot milk in which a lump of soda has been dissolved.

Carpet.

Before sending stair carpet to Be cleaned, pin a safety-pin at the top so that you will know where the old “treads” were.

Rough Hands.

A quick cure for rough hands is to use a good cream after they have been washed and to wear a pair of white cotton gloves for ten or fifteen minutes afterwards.

Bake in moderate oven about 30 minutes. Make into fingers, leave till cold, then cut where marked. Serve on papei d’oyley. Ginger Loaf. Two cups self-raising flour, J cup sugar, 1 cup sliced ginger, 1 teaspoon cocoa, 1 teaspoon butter, 1 egg, S cup milks Sift flour and cocoa. Rub in the butter. Add sugar and ginger. Mix into dough with beaten egg and milk. Pour into a. loaf tin and bake in moderate oven 40 to 45 mv.-.tes. JPurn onto cake cooler. When cold slice and butter.