HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1926, Page 18

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

HELPFUL IDEAS

If the ceiling above a gas jet becomes blackened apply a good layer of starch and water with a piece of flannel, and lightly brush it off when quite dry. *' * * •

To remove smell of fresh paint, peel and cut across tile top of a large onion, and place in a pail of water in the room and keep the door shut.

To conserve (space in your bag when packing for a trip, put rubbers or overshoes on a pair of shoes. In this way [they occupy much less room than when packed separately.

When a good sized rubber hot-water bag can no longer lie used for its original purpose, cut off the top and it will make quite a good Lag for your wet bathing gown.

When packing’ potatoes to bake under meat first parboil them, then drain them and pop them into the hot fat, and they will taste ever so much nicer than if you’d placed them under the njeat raw. • • • «

Milk dabbed over the face and allowed to dry on is an old-fashioned skin food ami remedy for freckles, especially if buttermilk is available. 'Ripo strawberries rubbed into the skin are supposed to give it a satiny softness not to be had by any other method. # # ' «'• «!

Three or four thicknesses of mosquito netting cut in ten-inch squares and bound together with coloured silkatecn in buttonhole stitch make splended face cloths for travelling. They 1 furnish ■the friction of Turkish towelling and yet dry out much more quickly.

In cleaning leather, stain?, due to oil will be removed by dabbing $ little sal ammoniac on them. Leave this on for a few minutes, and then remote it by washing with clear water. If dtisuecessful at first, repeat several..times. Be careful not to rub the. leather, as the .dye may be damaged.»-

SOME COMMON STAINS.

Paint.—Rub with turpentine, then ■benzine. Tar.—Rub with lard, then treat as for paint.

Grass Strains.—r'Riib with benzine, then wash in warm lather. Cocoa.—Soak hi ebld water. On nonwashing fabrics use benzine. Blood.—Soak in cold water for several ■hours. Wash in tepid hltlier. Fruit Juice! —Spoqge with cold water and ammonia as soon as possible.

Ink.—lf dry, treat as for ironmou'ld. If wet, tub at once with half ripe tomato, and then sponge with cold water.

CHRYSTALISED FRUITS.

Small pears and plums for crystalising should be ripe, but perfectly firin, or they will not keep. Bo very careful not be bruise them during the. preseriing process.

Remove all skins from pears, and cut stone fruit in halves, and take out the stones. Have ready a pound of finest castor sugar with ■ which has been thoroughly mixed a small saltspoonful each of cream of tartar and bi-carbon-ate pf soda. Roll each piece of fruit separately in this and then jdace allclose together on a dish which will bear oven heat. Bake in a hot oven until the fruit is tender, take out, and cool at once, on* the stone floor of a pantry if possible. ■ Before the fruit is quite cold and set, roll it in the sugar mixture again, and then stand each piece separately on a wire rack and leave it for forty-eight hours in a cool, dry place.

Pack in tins with grease-proof paper between the layers.

LGG COCOTTE A L’EGYPTIENNE

Thoroughly drain half a pint of tinned sweet corn; place in a small saucepan with half an ounce of butter; one and a half gills of cream, two saltspqonsful of salt, half a saltspoonful of cayenne pepper and half a saltspoonful of grated nutmeg. Mix, and boil for ten , minutes; remove from stove and divide the mixture evenly into six cocotte 4 dishes. Crack two fresh eggs into each dish, season equally with half a tea- 1 spoonful of Parmesan cheese over them, V and in the oven to bake for live V minutes.