HINTS AND RECIPES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 255, 28 October 1939, Page 10

HINTS AND RECIPES

SOMETHING TO INTEREST THE HUL&fbVV IF Fj. A small piece ol’ paper or linen moistened with spirits ol turSjntinc, pul into a wardrobe for a single day two or three times a year, is a preservative against moths. Don’t place casseroles or fireproof dishes over fierce heat. If cooking bygas. place an asbestos mat over a halt’ turned-on gas jet. Sea-water stains on dresses or other garments of navy blue or black can be removed by rubbing the stain with a piece of the same material moistened with vinegar. Camphorated oil applied on a soft, cloth will remove marks on a polished table caused by hot dishes and plates.' A small cupful of witch hazel, used as a final rinse after a shampoo, banishes all remains of sticky soap and imparts to the hair a glossy sheen. If you run out of plate powder you can clean electro-plated articles by rubbing them with finely powdered whiting, finishing with a soft rag. Equal parts of para Ilin and vinegar will remove stains from an enamelled bath and enamelled woodwork. If you have got tar on your white shoes, rub them with frosh butler and then apply some petrol on a clean rag. rubbing well in. After washing your jumpers you will find that they will not lose their shape if you put them in a hammocklike net. An easy way Io clean a polishing mop is to half fill a bucket with cold water, adding a handful of soda and a small quantity of paraflin. Put the mop in this mixture, lot it boil, and .then rinse the mop well in clean water. To Clean White Leather. Mix .some cream of tartar and cold water into a rather thick paste, and rub the leather well with this. Leave it for an hour then rub it with fuller's earth and alum powdered and mixed In equal parts. Next day. brush off ail the powder from the leather with a clean soft brush. Rub again with some coarse oatmeal to which a little whitening has been added. Comfort for an Invalid.—When you have the care of an invalid, if possible keep an extra change of pillows. Great comfort is given when the patient becomes restless by giving a nice cool pillow. If she is not too feeble, try getting patient out of bed for a minute or so. Often this will induce sleep. Removing Stains.- To remove blood stains, sleep the article in cold water. Grease, that is milk, cocoa, and similar stains, will usually wash and boil out. hut in obstinate cases, make a paste of fuller's earth and benzoline, spread lit. over the stain, letting it. dry, and | then rub it off. If necessary repeat the process. I When Washing Net Curtains. Lace 'or net curtains will last longer if kept in as small a compass as possible when i being washed. This prevents undue |strain being put upon the threads. ; Cure for Whitlow.- -Here is a very j simple remedy. Wash t he place carefully with boracic lotion. Take a clean knife and cut a thin, juicy slice off a lemon; tie this round your finger or thumb with a clean bandage, leave it Ion al! night or for several hours, and I repeat this until the pain has gone. The cure will then be effected. Marrow Marmalade.—Peel and core a large, ripe marrow, cut it into convenient pieces, then weigh, use 11b. preserving sugar to each lb. of marrow. Slice the marrow very thin, then sprinkle the sugar over. Add the juice and thinly cut pee! of 1 lemon and 1 orange to each lb.. 1 dessertspoonful of ground ginger and ground almonds. Leave all till next day. then turn into a well-buttered preserving-pan and bring to the boil, and simmer till all is transparent, for about 1 hour. Turn into warm jars, and cover while hot. Delicious Fruit Cakes That Will Keep. [ Orange Cake. - Required: 6oz. flour. 4oz. sugar. 3oz. butter. 2 eggs, 1 table1 spoonful orange juice, grated rind of [ orange. 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar. '■ teaspoonful carbonate of soda, 2 or 3 tablespoonsful milk. Make as usual for a sandwich cake, creaming the butter and sugar, adding the wellbeaten eggs alternatively with the flour, with which should be mixed the cream of tartar, etc., and the grated rind of the orange. Mix well together, add milk and, lastly, the orange juice. Bake in moderate oven. The flavouring and filling can be varied, using lemon, coffee, vanilla. American Prune Cake.—Required: 2 breakfastcupsful flour, 1J cupsful sugar, 1 cupful stewed prunes mashed finely, 3 egg yolks, I leaspoonful cinnamon. -1 leaspoonful all-spice, i teaspoonful nutmeg, 1 teaspoonful baking powder. 1 leaspoonful bicarbonate of soda. 1 cupful prune juice, 5 tablespoonsful melted butter. 1 cupful walnuts. Pul in all the ingredients before mixing, then stir as little as

possible. Bake in layers and use the whites of eggs for making the icing. American Frosting.- This icing is much liked by those who have tried it, and it makes a good icing for a fruit cake. Use lib, sugar, A pint water, : and 2 or 3 egg whites. Whisk the whites slightly, then dissolve the sugar, in the water till it begins to get i “ropy.” Pour this syrup over the . whisked whites and stir over: a gentle heat till it thickens, then pour 1 over the cake, and when cold decorate with chopped or halved walnuts. A mixed Fruit. Cake Without Eggs.) —Ingredients: -lib. flour, -ilb. sugar, 1 4oz. each of margarine, currants, sul-' tanas and raisins, loz of candied and shredded peel, a teaspoonful each of, cinnamon, ginger, mixed spice, bicarbonate of soda, and vinegar tor lemon juice), with milk to mix. Mixe the dry ingredients together, then rub in the fat. cut up in the case of raisins. Mix with the milk until it drops easily from a wooden spoon, then add the vinegar or lemon juice, and stir thoroughly. Turn into a well-greased tin, and bake in a moderate oven for about an hour and a half. Sour Milk Spice Cake.—Pvequired: lOoz. brown sugar, Soz. butter, 2 eggs, 1-ilb. flour, 1 teaspoonful ground cloves 12oz. seedless raisins, 2 teaspoonsful ground cinnamon, i teaspoonful grated nutmeg, 1 teaspoonful bicarbonate. of soda, -1 pint sour milk. Cream the butter and sugar together and add the, eggs, well beaten. Sieve the dry ingredients together and add them, dissolving the bicarbonate of soda in a little milk, which is next added. Mixin the raisins, stir very well and bake in a buttered cake tin for lx hours in a moderate oven.