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ODDS AND ENDS

If a casserole gets cracked because, for instance, you have forgotten to use an asbestos mat between it and the red-hot stove, make a mixture of pea flour and water. Put this inside and let it stew all day on the stove. The pea flour will cement the leak by filling up the crack. Blankets too short for a bed may be made longer by sewing to them at one end a strip of unbleached sheeting the width of the blanket. Use the cud so lengthened for the lower end of the bed and tuck the sheeting well under the mattress. This plan will allow lor extra warmth over the shoulders. Do not throw away a light-colored felt that has become soiled before trying this method; Dry thoroughly two tablcspoonfuls of flour and one tablespoonful of table salt. Mix them well, and rub tlio mixture all over the hat with a piece of flannel. Leave it for an hour or so, then brush it out thoroughly with a still clean brush. Repeat "this if the first time does not suffice to clean it thoroughly. Keep a spool to wind ribbons on when they are taken out of underclothes just before the clothes are sent to the laundry. If a large spool is used the ribbons can be wound on it smoothly, and when ready to use again they will be found to be in good condition. Don’t guess at the heat of your oven when baking. If you have no thermometer, test the oven with a sheet of white notepaper. Shut this in the oven while you count a hundred, then look at it. ' If it hasn’t colored, the oven is slow—too slow for anything but meringues; if pale brown, moderate; if deep brown, quick; if actually blackened and burnt, the oven is fierce.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19280222.2.105.3

Bibliographic details
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Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 12

Word count
Tapeke kupu
307

ODDS AND ENDS Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 12

ODDS AND ENDS Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 12

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