Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, 12 January 1911, Page 81

Domestic

By MAUREEN

An Excellent Furniture Polish. Take two parts of castor oil and one part vinegar mix thoroughly. Rub on furniture with a soft piece of flannel, and then polish with a duster. This will preserve the furniture, and the polish is lasting. To Pickle Tomatoes. Choose small ones and not quite ripe ; seedless ones are the best. Put them into flat dishes and sprinkle salt over them, and set away for two or three days. When ready, wipe each one quite dry with a towel; put into jars with small shallots, or, better still, the tiny hearts of white celery, and cover the whole with highly spiced vinegar, which must be cold; then cover well with bladder and wax. -Should you prefer it hotter, add to your fancy capsicum, chillies, and cayenne. Crush the turmeric and ginger before putting them into the vinegar. Wooden spoons or forks only should be used, and remember pickles must be well covered always with vinegar. Some allow a dessertspoonful of Demerara sugar to every quart of vinegar. The Virtues of Salad Oil. Salad oil forms a most useful article of diet for delicate people. The invalid who cannot touch cod liver oil should be encouraged to use freely mayonnaise dressing, and in eating salad to pour over it a liberal supply of oil.’ In cases where the taste for this is not natural it can generally soon be acquired. For some cases of debility and weak digestion small doses of salad oil will do wonders. Many people have been able to give up the almost daily use of drugs by taking instead a dessertspoonful of salad oil on going to bed. If the taste be disliked it can bo taken with a little claret, which will quite disguise it. In the nurseiy salad oil should be freely used for rubbiri ,r into the chest- back and —when there is any tendency to weakness of the lungs. The pores of the skin will absorb it leadily, and it will be found to have a nourishing and strengthening effect. & Household Hints. Soft soap rubbed into the seams of new boots will often prevent their squeaking. Shabby oak should be scrubbed with warm beer and u hen dry polished with beeswax and turpentine. Half a lemon dipped in salt will do all the work of oxalic acid m cleaning copper boilers, brass tea-kettles, and other such utensils. * To clean greasy cake tins, etc., scrub them with strong in d ter ’ aild then SC ° Ur them with a soapy flannel dipped Gleam copper with a paste made of putty powder and water 01 ’ aftenvards washln S it off with soap and hot V hen cooking, keep the kitchen door shut and the it" way °li eU S ° + ha t 81 ” 011 111 ay eSape without making It'S nay all over the house. If ~T o test the heat of an oven use a piece of white paper. If the paper when placed on the oven shelf turns a light brown, the heat is right for pastry; if it turns a dark yellow color it is right for cakes. lk Tainted butter is much improved if washed in water to which a little carbonate of soda has been added P3W lke casing () f poultry and game is rendered much more easj if the wings and legs are dislocated from their sockets cooking' ,lg * hem roUnd > f °«> th « bird is trussed to lo Mend Broken Glass. The juice of garlic pounded .ue'dtertf" said *° be **“> cement to oretiol,°7iU P f a „ r “?p„*! , f t . a,e in «Kl «.e con- • , Window panes are . apt to crack if washed with water n fiosty weather, so it is useful to know that thev mav be well polished, and without danger if rubbed nv»! • a little paraffin, and then with clean cloths J Wlth Jo whiten the ivory handles of table knives rub them “ft way of the US" with a little moist whitening on 1 soft flannel. A little ammonia and water will take out stains made by perspiration; after applying wash ? ! material in clean cold water. 1 To clean a 1 • which anything has been burned, fill it with SISS?*” 1 m and water, and let it stand aside for a few hoilK who? / can be cleaned without any trouble. urs ’ wen it To bleach lace curtains which have become die™! i by a smoky atmosphere try this:—Take one J S ?? lo, : c j d of lime and eight parts of water; allow ifto 8 days, constantly shaking it. Strain and add ifJrr for - three a gallon of water. Wlifn tin, ouSaiusLVi"* *" rinsed, steep in this solution for 24 hours thin am j starch as usual. urs ’ taen rinse and