Hints for Housewives.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XII, 19 March 1904, Page 63

Hints for Housewives.

Many persons place a wide piece of oilcloth under the dining table over the carpet. The carpet is thus protected and the oilcloth can easily be cleaned. When laid on the floor before a sink, fable, desk, or any spot where there is much wear the saving of carpets and floors is considerable. The flavour of a duck is much improved by roasting with an orange and an onion in the body. Salted almonds are now so fashionable that a hint as to preparing them may be useful. Blanch half a pound of almonds and dry. Scatter a teaspoonful of tine dry salt over, spread on buttered tins, and put in the oven till the almonds heroine a pale yellow, stirring frequently. Hot alum water is the best insect destroyer known. Put the alum into hot water, and let it boil until it is dissolved; then apply the solution hot with a brush to all cracks, closets, bedsteads, and other places where any insects may be found. \\ hen baking a cake divide the time into quarters, and look at your cake only four times, taking it out the last time. At the end of the first quarter it should be somewhat risen, with bubbles on the top; the second quarter finds it well risen and beginning to brown very slightly; at the end of the third quarter it is “set” and evenly hut lightly browned. The last look into the oven should find the cake ready to take out. Be sure of this before you take it out, however.