TIPS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
If a cake that you intend to ice cooks with an uneven top, invert and ice the reverse side, which will be perfectly
When making fruit salad add four or five drops of brandy to the fruit and
leave it for half an hour before serving. The brandy brings out the flavour of each fruit more strongly.
A good paste for filling up the small cracks that sometimes appear in furni ture is make by mixing common soap and plain flour just moist enough to smooth evenly. It does not crack and can be stained any colour.
When replacing stoppers in bottles give them a twist round and they will never stick.
If grease Is spilt on the kitchen’ table sprinkle the stain at once with salt: it prevents the grease from staining the wood.
To clean mirrors or windows, polish with tissue paper, which gives a lustre brighter than chamois leather does.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 173, 23 July 1931, Page 4
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