ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Evening Star, Issue 19664, 17 September 1927, Page 20

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

“ Anxious.”-—I am glad you found the recipe for fruit salts so good. As this is the season when this mild spring medicine is most needed, I am glad to repeat the instructions. Take 2oz each of .bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, .cream of -, tartar, citrate of magnesia. Epsom salts, and icing sugar. Mix all thoroughly and put in a convenient jar. Keep well covered, or dampness will affect the salts. “ Inexperienced.”—Your cakes fail probably owing to the incorrect temperature of your oven. The following is a simple and reliable test:—Sprinkle a little flour over a baking tin and leave it in the oven for three minutes. If at the end of that time the flour has turned light yellow the oven is alow, if dark yellow it is moderate for largo pies or cakes, if light brown it is right for tarts or small cakes, and if dark brown it is quick. “ Careful.”—As a rule recooked meat should be avoided for children, as it has not much food value. At the same time, the addition of eggs, butter, or milk makes it more wholesome, and in any case a savory recooked dish is a good stimulant to appetite, and is therefore not to be despised occasionally. Mrs P.”—Thank you lor the hint, which I pass on to readers of this column. Ladies who use lotions or other dressing for the hair will find its application much easier if, iilstead of using me hand, they keep a very small oilcan for the purpose. The liquid is thus easily put to the roots of the hair, and none is wasted. ■