USEFUL TO KNOW

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13983, 14 August 1909, Page 6

USEFUL TO KNOW

One teaspoonful of extract will flavour a quart of • any frosen sweet or m equal amount of custard or pud ding. One cup of sugar will sweeten a quart of any frozen mixture. One level teaspoonful of salt will season a quart of soup. One tabiespoonfiil of water or milk should be added to each egg in making an omelet. Rice will absorb three times its mensure of water or rather m6re milk. The best time to cut flowers (says a writer in Gardening Illustrated) is : early in the morning whilst the dew is upon them, or else during the evening. 1 prefer the early morning. As soon as cut, the steins should be placed in water, even if in a temporary way if not convenient to arrange them at once in their proper positions. When the flowers have to lie packed early in Uie morning to be sent a long distance, they must either be cut extra early, or, what is better, cut the previous evening, and placed in water all night in h cool place, which can be kept close. In this way they absorb all the water it is possible for them to »10, being consequently fresher when unpacked. Maidenhair fern has the immn for not keeping any too fresh after it

is cut] this is portly," if not greatly, the fault of the management. When it in known that a certain amount will Le required in the morning, it «s much better to pick tho fro ids over night, nod bunch them after? ards, leaving them immersed until the following | morning.