HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11975, 12 May 1914, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Before starching linen add a litt'o milk to the starch. This will give a nice gloss to the clothes when ironed. To preserve eggs, fill a wooden box with ordinary salt, smear each egg over with olive oil, and place it in the salt with the pointed end downwards. Eggs treated in this way will keep fresh for some time. To keep hot water bottles in good condition, after filling with hot water, press the sides before you serow the cap. In so doing all the steam_passes cut, and there will be no danger of the bottle ripping, not matter how hot the water. To clean velvet first brush it, and have re ady a. very hot iron, and thoroughly soak a piece of rag and lay it folded several times over the iron, causing the steam to rise. Then gently pass the velvet over the steam. This will raise the pile 1 and it will appear new. To remove the unpleasant odour of cabbage boiling, place a small piece of bread tied up in a muslin bag in with the boiling cabbage. When making a plain- suet pudding or roly-poly, put it in an ordinary kstraight 31b jam ;jar. Well grease jar iiiid cover with saucer, and steam. The, pudding , will be found more satisfactory that if boiled in a cloth. Sometimes the smell of onions seems to ding to the saucepan in which they have been cooked. When this is so, let the next thing you cook in the saucepan be potatoes. The smell of. the onions will not in any way affe?t the potatoes and by the time they have cf.oked, the saucepan will no longer bo '' oniony.'' When steaming potatoes put a cloth ever them before putting the lid on. ! They will take much Jess time to cook I and be much more mealy than when dene in the ordinary way. If potatoes are inclined to lurn black in cooking, add a few drops of vtnegar to Muj water in which they are boiled. The. result will be beautifully white Homy potatoes. To remove rain-spots from a light felt hat, sprinkle the hat well with fuller's earth. l\'ub brisgly with a ]n vie ler's earth. Rub briskly with a piece time, and leave it on four days. Then 1 rush with a soft hat brush, and you will be pleased with the result.