Handy Household Hints Read By The 1897 Housewife

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 85, 13 January 1950, Page 5

Handy Household Hints Read By The 1897 Housewife

Most Bay of Plenty housewives know the so-called household hints that may be found in any of the various women’s magazines. Periodicals have been printing them for years and some of the older jhints’ are interesting Compared with those of today. Take the following household hints which were contained in one newspaper published in 1897:-* Pickles or vinegar will keep in a jar that has never had any kind of grease in it. To scour knives easily, mix a small quantity of baking soda with your brick dust if your knives do not polish better. For “greasing” the griddle, cut a white turnip in half and rub the griddle with it. It causes no smoke, taste or adhesion and it is better than butter.

When coffee beans are placed upon hot coals or upon a hot plate the flavour arising is one of the most effective and at the same time agreeable disinfectants. If no heat is obtainable even the spreading of ground coffee on the object to be disinfected is most satisfactory. Don’t waste your time scouring your bread; bread never bakes as well in a bright tin. Indeed, the best bread pans, if one can afford to have them made, are oblong ones made of Russia sheet iron.