Kitchen Wrinkles.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1629, 5 October 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

Kitchen Wrinkles.

If poisoned by ivy bathe the affeeiod parts freely three timeßa day with sweet epiiits of nitre. Keep a brick on tho bock of your etove. You will fiad it nice to eet food on when you wish to keep it waim. Try ueing sweet, skimmed milk instead of Btarcb for colicoeß and ginghams. I use it and liko it much better than tho starch. Rub window glass with a pieco o! soft linen wei with vinegar, then with a dry cloth, and it will bo beautifully clear. I make glue "that is very good by dissolving the gum to bo found on cherry trees in water. Keep w&ter on ii all tho time, and it is always ready for use. Cut the thick skin from the outside of the kg of mutton, or tho mutton chop, before cooking them, and you will not have the woolly tasto that so many complain of. To clean the silver epoona and forks ia orerj'-daj uee, rob thcra whh' a damp cloth dipped in baking-eoua, then polisii them with a little pieca of ohamsis skin. I have laaracd that I can wash two pounds of currants almost as quickly as ono cupful, and that is a* great eaviug of time to 2nd them ready foruso when I need' them. Itub salt err the inaide of your coffee-pot when washing it, and it will remove the coffee and egg very quickly. Ba Euro to rinse ii thoroughly before using it again. Old lamp burners should bo boiled often ia strong salsratus water, Let th6tn boil for an hour, polieh them, and they will bs &s good as new, and will not trouble you by caaMng a smoky light. To take letters from a flour sack, first dip the sack in cold water, and Ist ii soak fifteen rninuteo; then eoap it well, let it eoak a little longer, and when is has bsen washed through one water it is ready to be put through with tho other clothes. Maka stove cloths of dark calico to use about your cooking, instead of using your apron or a dish towel whenever yoa wish to remove oaythiog itaxa the oven or eff tha Btove. You will find them neater and. more oouv&nient. I have mice doubled and about twelve inches square. Why will any housekeeper tolerate soggy, dirty, 'dingy feather beda, when they can ba lightened and their ticks cleansed and bieaohed to almost the purity of new cloth by putting sack beds on the crast through the Spring thaws and freezes ? They should ba turned every day whau lying en tho snow, earti ally housed when stormy, and kept out on the bleaching, purifying, honeycombing oiust for six weeks if possible.