ODDS AND ENDS

Evening Star, Issue 20061, 29 December 1928, Page 5

ODDS AND ENDS

Raisins should he floured before use, to prevent them sinking to the bottom of the mixture.

If yon warm a lemon before squeezing it yon will get nearly twice as much juice. Vinegar improves gravy; added to tho water, makes a boiling fowl more tender; nibbed into any meat before cooking reduces toughness: rfweetons meat that may be slightly high. Stick cloves all over an orange, then dry it slowly in the oven. This fragrant ball will keep ;$1 moths away, and scent your clothes pleasantly. Rust on steel or iron can be removed readily by rubbing oil of tartar on them. Another way is to use very fine emery and a little oil, or to rub the metal with strong vinegar in which powdered alum lias been dissolved. When the weather is warm a good way to keep sweet is to boil 2oz of lump sugar and 2oz of salt in one quart of the best vinegar for a few minutes. When cold, brush the meat over with this. Lace mats for the toilet table arc more popular than tho embroidered ones- All sorts of odds and ends of real lace are whipped together in round nr square shapes—the son are are more favoured —and usually edged with narrow Valenciennes or filet and then dyed to a uniform “ tea ” colour. Net and muslin curtains are very apt to lose their shape when they have been washed. Run a. brass rod through the beading at the top and the hem at the bottom’, and bang the curtain over the line so that the reds Jiang down each side. This method will keep the curtains perfectly even in length. To keep butler firm dissolve one tear spoonful of powdered borax in one enpfnl of boiling water. Soak a cloth for fifteen minutes in t'm solution. _ Let the cloth cool, and then place it wet over the butter.