HINTS AND RECIPES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 3

HINTS AND RECIPES

SOMETHING TO INTEREST THE HOUSEWIFE To clean artificial pearls wrap them in a sheet of cotton-wool sprinkled with powdered magnesia. Roil gently between the hands then use a soit brush to remove the powder. Vegetables that have become frostbitten can be freshened by soaking them in very cold water to which a teaspoonful ’of bicarbonate of soda has been added. Do this a few hours □efore cooking. When baking potatoes always prick them with a fork before putting them in the oven. To set jellies in a short time take a handful of salt and the same of soda, put into a bowl of water and stand uhe jelly mould in this. Dents on furniture can be removed by ironing over a pad of brown paper soaked in hot water. Lay the paper I over each dent and press with a hot iron until dry, picking up the pad at intervals to allow steam to escape. Do I not allow the iron to touch anything but the damp pad. Persist with this treatment if bruises are severe. After baking a cake always let it remain in the tin for about five minutes to give it time to settle, and then turn out carefully on to a sieve. Peel rubber gloves off gently, and if they are not completely inside-out when the process is finished, blow into each glove until it is, for it is important that the while inner surface be thoroughly aired before they are put away. Thick soups should be the thickness of rich cream. Avoid making them too thick, and be sure they are perfectly smooth. Lumpy soup c<n be remedied by rubbing it through a sieve and then reheating. Crumpled velvet can be freshened by holding the creased part over a basin of boiling water with the back of the velvet next to the water. Gingerbread made at home frequently turns out tough and leathery. This can often be avoided by keeping the oven temperature very steady and never over 340 degs. F., so that the syrup does not get too hot. A Good Mouth Wash. Place a pint of cold water in a bottle and add to it crystals of permanganate of potash sufficient to make the liquid a light crimson colour. Wash out the mouth with this daily. For Leather-covered Furniture An excellent dressing for leathercovered furniture is made by adding forty drops of turpentine to half a pint of milk. Any dust that has accumulated must be removed before application. Polish with clean, soft dusters. For Knitters Every knitter knows the difficulty of using two colours of wool which have to be knitted alternately, and of keeping them from getting entangled. Just slip the two ends of the wools through a fairly large bead. It keeps them together, yet untangled. To Revive Faded Flowers Flowers which have been packed, or carried for some distance, soon droop. To revive them, plunge the stalks into hot water and allow them to stand till the water is cold. Then cut off the ends of the stalks and arrange tne Howers in cold water Thus treated flowers will last wonderfully in the vases. Salt as a Stimulant Ordinary kitchen salt is an excellent natural stimulant. If you are feeling tired and exhausted, put a teaspoonful of salt in a tumbler of hot water, and sip it slowly. It will refresh and invigorate you in a wonderful way. Simple Sweets for Childrens’ Parties. Jelly Trifle.—Arrange some sponge cakes in a glass dish, spread them with raspberry jam. Make a thick custard and when it is slightly cool pour over the sponge cakes. Dissolve a pint packet of jelly in the usual way, let it get cold, but not set, and pour that over the custard. Leave to set, then decorate with whipped cream or blanched almonds. Lemon Fluff.—To half an ounce of gelatine take two lemons, half a pint of water, 2oz. loaf sugar, the whites of two eggs, and some castor sugar. Put the gelatine, rind of the two lemons, the water and loaf sugar, in a pan and stir till the gelatine is dissolved. Put the juice of the lemons in a basin with the egg whites. Strain the mixture from the pan over this, and whisk till stiff. A very good effect is obtained by dividing the quantity into two and colouring one half delicately pink and arranging, in a glass dish, in alternate spoonfulls of pink and white. Sprinkle sugar over before serving. Pineapple Mould. Required: A small tin of pineapple, loz. gelatine, gill water, 3oz. castor sugar, and i pint custard. Melt gelatine slowly in a pan with water, mix sugar, pineApple, chopped small, and the custard in a basin, then strain the dissolved gelatine into it and stir until it begins to set. Now pour it into a mould previously wetted and leave it in a cool place to set, when it should be turned out on to a glass dish. Banana Whip.—lngredients: Four bananas, 2oz. of castor sugar, 1 tablespoonful lemon juice, a gill of double cream, a few cherries. Remove the skin from four large, ripe bananas, remove any coarse threads, then make to a pulp. Put the pulp in a saucepan with the sugar and lemon juice, and stir over gentle heat until the sugar has dissolved, and the mixture is quite hot* then take off the fire and leave until cold. Whip the cream until it is quite firm, and gently stir into the banana mixture. Garnish with crystallised or glace cherries and serve in small glasses.