HAVE YOU TRIED?

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18635, 2 August 1930, Page 14

HAVE YOU TRIED?

Have you tried cutting a boiled pudding with a hot knife to avoid making the pudding heavy? Or dipping a knife into hot water before cutting new bread for the same reason?

Painting a rusty-looking wire mattress with some aluminium paint to improve its appearance? Worn-look-ing baths are so quicklyy renovated by the use of this quick-drying paint. Placing a jam jar, half filled with cold water, in your gas oven when cooking meat? The steam from the water rises and keeps the meat tender and juicy. Laying a hot poker on a piece of comphaor to rid a room of flies? The fumes rise and quickly disperse the flies.

Making your own camphorated oil at home? Grate sixpenny worth of camphor into the same amount of sweet oil. Stand in a basin of hot water, cork loosely, and shake occasionally until the camphor has wholly dissolved.

Mixing hearthstone with a small quantity of thin starch Before using, to prevent the rain washing the whitening off the front door steps? Erasing gravy stains on a tablecloth with French clialk? Leave the chalked spots for a few hours, and the grease will be absorbed and the cloth spotless. Massaging your hands with paraffin oil when very dirty? Wash afterwards with a good super-fatted soap and warm water, and note how soft and white the hands will be. Dusting a small quantity of dry flour over the top of a cake before commencing to ice it? The icing will then be less likely to run down the sides of the cake. Adding a piece of dripping to the water in which green vegetables are boiling and so prevent it from boiling over?

To make browning for gravy and stews, wet one cup of white sugar with one tablespoon of water and heat it in an old saucepan till it is dark brown. Add one cup of hot water, stir well and bottle for use.