ODDS AND ENDS IN THE LARDER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19269, 5 January 1931, Page 10

ODDS AND ENDS IN THE LARDER.

Although gaily coloured tins with appropriate labels are available for nearly all household stores there are one or two odds and ends that seem to have no set place. Baking powder, for instance, sometimes arrives in paper bags which get torn and messy in any kitchen where but little of the powder is used. It keeps much better if it is put as soon as it arrives into one of those glass salt-pourers which, can be brought cheaply at any of the stores. The requisite teaspoonful or pinch can then be shaken out quite easily, while the hole is too small for the damp to penetrate. It is wise to label this pourer, as otherwise a stranger to the kitchen may pour it into the soup with the best possible intentions. On rather the same lines grated ginger and cinnamon for flavouring are best kept in spare pepper pots; discretion can then be used more easily than when they are stored in little tins.

Lemons, too, are rather a difficulty, for wherever they are laid down they are apt to bruise. Should one have an old piece of net left from curtains or butter muslin from covers little lemon bags can be made in a minute. The sides are simply run together and two pieces of tape or string threaded through a hem at the top. The lemons are slipped into individual bags and hung by the double string from the bottoms of the shelves so that they do not come in contact with any wall or wood. It is false saving of labour to thread only one string instead of two, for the bag hangs unevenly and the net gets torn. If one is in the country and grapefruit have to be stored for some time larger bags can be made foi them in just the same fashion while some people make large string bags to ripen melons.