A Housewife's Diary

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 6, 30 September 1937, Page 14

A Housewife's Diary

Hints About The Home Vases. Clean by filling with salted water and pieces of paper. Leave for a short time before emptying. "Flower Shells, ,r "Whispering" shells that were so pbfttlar in the days of antimacassars and corner-cabinets full qf knick-knacks, have a place in the modern rooms, but ha a new guise. In fact, these up-to-date shells are not shells at all, but are made of pottery and function as flower containers. You may have them white, like their originals, or in green, blue, pink or yellow. Tables on Wheels. Tables on wheels, you might thlak, would not have that perfect steadinfiss desirable when you are taking meds from them. There is a table, howaver, designed as "garden furniture," that «an . be wheeled and yet is as steady at a rock wheri in position. Only two of the legs have wheels, the two without being those that are lifted when the table is being pushed. They are obtainable in pinewood cellulosed in various colours. Tea Novelty. A container for tea that does the Tiwan Uring pf the tea for the pot for you it a handy noveliy. Press a stud in the top and one teaspoonful is released. The same "type of holder for sugar is useful as it saves over-sweetening, of not swwitening enough when cooking. Freshening Rolls. Fresh hot rolls for breakfest ara aot always available from the baker just when they are wanted. . Have you tried dipping stale rolls in milk and heating in the oven? They come out as soft and .new as you could wish. Scdnes also respond very well to this treatment. ■Tinted Butter Pate. v Tinted butter pats have k pretty *ppearance and have the attraction' of novelty. They are sometimes used as a firial touch of sauces or as an .accompaniment to grills, but coloured and flavoured butter also often makes good sandwiches. There "are various "ways of tinting. Watercress, sieved and well pounded up with. the butter makes it a deep green. Mixed feesh herbs will produce a. pale green butter, and the pulp of toiriatoes a red one. Grape Fruit. Grape fruit is surely the most Honoured among fruits for no other has been fesponsible -for-such a variety- of apoons, knives and containers specially designed for it. Pretty servers in paper for grape fruit are even included now in picnic accessories. The servers are deep enough to take a halved fruit and are dainty enough to have a place on the evaryday table as well as on the cloth laid for \ an alfresco meaL t :