USEFUL HINTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 January 1909, Page 3

USEFUL HINTS.

Copper is best cleaned with lemon dipped in salt.. Rinse, t thon polish' with a soft cloth Clean the keys of the piano with a cloth, moistened with alcohol.' Use; a mixture' of whiting 1 and ammonia instead of soapsuds, for cleaning windows. Smear them well with a cloth, then polish with a chamois, MAKING GOOD GRAVY. The stock-pot, in houses where soup is made, is tho saving many enus of meat. But little scraps of meat need never be wasted. Everybody wants gravy, if thoy do not eat soup, and a few scraps of meat, stewed very gently" for a couple of hours, and flavoured a pinch ot herbs, an onion, and perhaps some soup vegetables, will make a good quantity of gra\y. Fat, of.course,..deed, never bo wasted. It should be clarified with hot watci and put into clean jars.' If enough fat is used for frying, it can be used three or four times before it is finally disposed of. It is advisable always to.keep the fat in which fish has been v'friediV..^aij..use^ v for.:ineat;:ahd-th'al.:useil.-for-' /sweets, i,ih.'three;:separate'^jars./'l'/;''./'-; :.-■_<•:;; ■;-' '^ ! -;A-Jia'cpetetl- floor .may '. : bo : much : 'impfoVM.by, . ■ brushuig/it/with dampened' newspapers: 1 ;V/Ijher papeij,should-first>he -.'torn iritb■ small■ pieces' arid. sbakedAiti,/a >little'''water,;l'tn"eVmoisture-: .'. out aV muchMs."possibleJ-The ; ' paper.'uiay then be scattered ■ over tth^'lflborr^si.is', usually done';-with. stale . tea-JeaTeSj-aiid.'' a'"stiff "carpet brush.iiseM: hv , ih6 "ordinary vrn'anher.; > : ':. -/:.'/';-' ;. : : : ; ;: .X;' '' ;If,"your;ikitoheri,. range or "stove has' got Jiotled. with .'grease"while.cooking,'and' youJ fanhpkgetit.toT polish, l a good'way. to remove, ltus.-as^follows':—Take a little hand brush," tf.referably'the 'befor ; 6\,putting-them '.away;'smear it well 'with - EQot^fj^ni'-the, flue, -and rub it well iover'the ' greaajparts'.":' Afterwards blacklead asusual, ; and *ys'u will;find the' grease-has disappeared, .and a;brUliant/polish- willbe'the-:result. •;.- 1 : of- • • washing ;well,- the cheaper kinds being' much spoilt 'in .the process; ' _it'is 'advisable, tbere- : forey; to. try; a" small .'piece; of -the material •;fi^st,7/aDd.?: l for .washing. ... -one-: quart./ of bran-in':.four..quarts orV Vwaterf or/half an '. hour; :'anowing-.plerity of room, in the 'pan, as it boils'.- up '/considerably.- Strain '.this;mix-. /;ture through'coarse.muslin,"and ppol-.it with >,water;.: : iih'til' warm. /Shake ".out as.'possible: from;;the, curtains,', and wash; one; '.in the; bran'.solution, a'.idagaih'inL'a' second ;■ supply, reserving the/first tub for the. next pieco; ;• then.-x'inse ;itiiv cold ..water .with, a good: handful: of .-salt : in'lit;. put it : through .-..the. wringers/and,.then into., starch/that js, almost;cold,, rnade.f.in;the.proportion of; one . [cupful; of boiling water starch, to .six c'upfuls. of _cold-water. ; Put it;' now.' through-..tho wringer twice, and hang at once in the open air to dryi;.ironing';them on the wrong side when.nearly, dry with a cool iron. .One of . the'great things is-not/to : keep th'eni: wet a' . moment/longer;/than- can ; be helped./ Some " cretonnes ■ can • b.e.'. "washed'''. as. ;; -you ' wash ' ordinary;;.,coloured ;■ prints, ■ but;■ ; the . ,-bran, : -ihethM-is;safer.'^/ 1 /■/■:■' ;•;:./;./""

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