HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3157, 5 November 1929, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Wash a potato, wipe dry, and put m In your bread-pan. It will keep the bread fresh for days.

When cooking turnips add a tea spoonful of white sugar to the wate*\ This greatly improves their flavour.

To cut butter in small squares for the table, use a coarse, wet thread as this leaves no ragged edges.

Grated carrot is excellent for add ing to suet puddings in place of eggs One medium-sized carrot will take th* place of two eggs.

When preparing a mustard plaster use the white of an egg instead ol water; the plaster will not blister th« skin.

Silver sand mixed with an equal quantity of common salt makes a splendid scouring mixture, and will save the soap generally used foi scrubbing.

To clean a mackintosh, pour some vinegar into a saucer and dip a soft rag or sponge into it; then rub the soiled parts lightly, changing the rag as it becomes soiled.

Heat plates before putting hot cakes or pies on them when first taken out of the oven. If a hot cake is put on a cold plate the under part will get sodden and heavy.

If you want your grate to look veo bright, rub it over with just a little turpentine, after blackleading and shining. Then polish with a soft: duster. It will look well for days.

Black kid gloves which have be come shabby and rusty-looking ma he improved by the application of i little black ink mixed with a teaspoonful of olive oil. It should be out on with a brush.

To restore crumpled chiffon, take about a pint of cold water, add one tablespoonful of vinegar, then put the chiffon in, but do not rub. Squeeze lightly with the hand, then rinse in cold water and afterwards press on the wrong side with a warm iron.

To make glassware glisten, wash the glass and rinse in hot water, then plunge into cold water into which a handful of starch has been dissolved. Drain the glassware on towels until perfectly dry, then polish with a soft dry cloth.

For cleaning the plated parts of cycles, use two ounces of turpentine, eight ounces of prepared chalk, one ounce of alcohol, two drachms of liquid ammonia, mixed well together and applied with a sponge. Let the mixture dry on, then polish with a dry cloth

The best way to work buttonhole* especially large ones for coats another garments, is to mark the posi tion and then put two rows of mach ine stitching. Afterwards cut betwee" the two stitchings, and the hole wi : be found much easier to work, as thii prevents all fraying of the material.

Place a week's tea-leaves in a pail and pour Over them a quart of boiling water. Leave for one hour, then strain and bottle. This liquor is ex cellent for cleaning varnished wooq and linoleum, and when used fo; cleaning windows or mirrors makes them shine like crystal.

Teacups -with broken handles an very useful for poaching eggs. Butler the inside, break the egg into the cup, and stand the cup in the frying l pan half filled with water. It keep; the egg a good shape when poached, easy to slip on to toast, and is cleane/ than poaching in a frying-pan.

The correct way to patch a sheet is to lay the patch on the outside anc tack it on perfectly straight, then sew it neatly round the foui sides, nexi turn the sheet over, and cut out al thin parts to within an inch of tht seam, turn the edges neatly down and fell them to the patch.

Gold and silver lace and trimmin eoon get tarnished. Try cleaning thit way: Take a stale loaf and rub the inside to make crumbs, and mix with it £lb. powdered blue. Lay this plen vifully on the lace and rub gently un til it becomes bright. Then take a piece of clean flannel and dust tht: crumbs well off. Finally rub the lact gently with a piece of velvet, and ii will look as bright as when new.