HINTS AND RECIPES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 228, 26 September 1931, Page 19 (Supplement)

HINTS AND RECIPES

SOMETHING TO INTEREST THE HOUSEWIFE

The inside of banana skins will ro move inkstains from the hands.

In hot weather, butter may be kept cool and firm by placing in a large jam jar and standing the jar in a bowl of water.

Rinse glass dishes, tumblers, and all glassware in blue water to which a little whitening has been added.

When feeling over-tired try a hot bath in which a knob of ordinary washing soda has been dissolved.

While a fruit stain is still moist cover it with powdered starch. When dry, rinse in cold water and wash in

Raw meat should hang in a cool place or in a draught and be covered with muslin when flics are about. It should be partially cooked to kill the germs of decay.

When marking linen mark the initials first with lead pencil; tho lead prevents the ink from running.

Handkerchiefs can be washed in half tho time and with much less labour if they are soaked overnight in water to which a handful of salt has been added.

Caro should be taken when storing blankets to protect them from moths. Powdered alum, which is odourless and doos not waste away, is an excellent deterrent to moths.

Should you find you cannot use a lettuce when you buy ft, stand the root in a basin of cold water and it will keep crisp for several days.

A soiled fur collar can be satisfactorily cleaned with a dry shampoo powder. Rub in, leave for a time, then shake and brush out all the powder.

Eggs which have been broken accidentally may be kept for two or three days by removing the shells, dropping the eggs into a bowl, and covering them with cold water.

A mixture of beeswax and salt will make a rusty-flat-iron quite clean and smooth. When the iron is hot, rub it in the mixture and dust with a clean piece of rag.

When You are Feeling Tired.—Beat up a new laid egg to a froth. Cut an orange in half, squeeze one half into a tumbler, pour in the beaten-up egg, now squeeze on to it the other half of orange. Drink this slowly and you will find it a great restorative when tired.

To lighten Labour on Washing Day. —Washing days are never looked forward to by housewives, but much can be done to make tho work easier and more quickly accomplished. A definite method is advisable, and the clothes should be sorted into different lots beforehand, such as woollens, table linen, bed linen, personal wear, and so on. It is a great help when much washing is done at home and clothes arc boiled, to instal a gas-heated washing machine. It is economical and efficient, and the clothes emerge from it absolutely clean.

When You Picnic.—When you are on ' a motoring picnic more substantial OB can be taken than when you are As well as sandwiches, one (MB pack such things as veal and ham tjjff, gelatines of meat or poultry, fikds, and some tinned peaches, pears, rftc. Be sure, however, to put the empty tins in a little receptacle, and do not throw’ them away anywhere.

| To Keep Mats Tidy—When putting down new rugs and carpets, sow hat wire round the small mats. Ij keeps them flat and tidy, and prevents ♦hem •urling up at tho corners. By sewing a broad piece of webbing all round the edges on the underside of a new carpet, its life and service are prolonged. Cari pets so treated arc much less likely to ■ fray at the edge.