Worth Knowing.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 July 1912, Page 4

Worth Knowing.

Brush pio crust with cream to insure a rich brown colour. Ammonia water that has been usod for washing may be used for plants. It is ajr oxcollent fertiliser. It is a good schoino to keep the children's overshoes together with clothes pins. Cutting onions, turnips and oarrots across the fibre makes them more tender whon cooked. To singe chickons hold them over a saucer of burning alcohol. it does not leave soot on the flesh. Wash cane-soatetl chairs with strong hot lather and dry in the open air. Avoid the sun, ns this will give the cane a faded appearance. Suede gloves that have become shiny mid worn looking can be freshened by rubbing them with fine sandpaper. Make a rulo to Bcald sponges in soda and water at least once a week if you would have them sweet and clean. fn making fish balls of any kind, mix them while the potato is hot if you would have them creamy. Drain apple fritters the moment they are taken from tho deep fat, and then sprinkle with powdered sugar. If you cflnnot strip the skin from Salt fifih before soaking ovor night, soak it with tho skin side up. If a roast of meat browns rapidly, cover it with a buttered paper so that it will not burn. In making stuffing for a loin of veal haye it very moist, for the meat itself has little moisture. When boiling potatoes place them in the saucepan in a wire basket, such as is used for frying. They may he lifted out in the basket when done, much more easily than by using a fork, and am perfectly drained. Other vegetables, of course, may be boiled the same way.