HAVE YOU TRIED

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1930, Page 7

HAVE YOU TRIED

Have you tried cutting a boiled pudding witn a hot knife to avoid making uie pudding .Heavy? 'Ur dipping a knife into not water before r cutting new bread for the same reason?

Painting a rusty-looking wire matrass with some aluminium paint to improve its appearance? Worn-ooking baths are so quickly renovated - by the use of this quick-drying paint. Placing a jam jar, half filled with cold water, in your gas oveiV when cooking meat? The steam from the water rises and keeps the meat tendei and juicy. . / • Laying a hot poker, on a piece ol camphor to rid the room of flies, The fumes rise and quickly disperse the flies: . ' V . -Making your own camphorated oil at home? Grate sixpennyworth'of camphor into the same amount of sweet oil. Stand in a basin of hot water, cork loosely, and shake occasionally until the camphor has wholly dissolved. Mixing hearthstone with a small quantity of thin starch before using, to prevent the rain Hashing the whitening.off the front doorstep? Erasing gravy stain on a : i with French chalk? Leave the chalked spots for a few hours, and the grease will be 'absorbed and the cloth spotless. _ Massaging your hands with Vparimn oil when very dirty? Wash afterwards with a good super-fattedsqap and warm water, note how soft and white the hands will be. Dusting a small quantity of dry flour over the top of a cake before commencing to ice it? The icing nil) then be less likely to run down the sides of the cake. ... Adding a piece of dripping, to the water in which green vegetables. are boiling and so prevent, it from boiling over ?