Household Hints.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 97, 28 August 1908, Page 4

Household Hints.

The Traveller's Omelette. This omelette is intended to be eaten for a litlte lunch. Break into a basin three eggs; add to them a spoonful of cream and a seasoning of pepper and salt, and beat until quite light and frothy. Melt 2ozs. of butter in an omelette pan, and when very hot, pour in the mixture, stirring until it begins to set. Then slide it off the pan on to a plate and let it get cold. Pound together 4oz. of cold ham and tongue, mixed, and a little butter, and season it with mustard and pepper. Put this on top of the cold omelette and roll it up like a pancake.

Queen of Br/sad Puddings. Take some pieces of stale bread and bake them until they are perfectly dry and hard. Break these into rough pieces and plaCe them in to a greased pie-diah." Then mix together* a pint of milk, one egg, about one tablespoonful of sugar, and a few drops of essence of lemon, and pour it over the bread. Leave the bread to soak for about an hour and then bake in a moderate oven. When the pudding is done spread over it a layer of jam or of preserved fruit, and above that spread a layer of blancmange. This pudding is very nice cold, but if it is to be eaten hot, it is now returned to the oven for a few minutes.

Paste Pyramids.—Roll out a sheet of rich puff paste to a quarter of an inch in thickness. Cut it into square shapes, making the first the size of the dish on which it is to be laid, the next a size smaller, and so on, till it tapers to a point. Lay each piece separately on a baking sheet, brush over with egg, screen with caster sugar, and bake to a nice light brown colour. When baked take them carefully off the paper and lay aside until cold. Then lay the largest piece on the dish, cover it with raspberry jam or orange marmalade, and put alternate layers of paste and jam until the pyramid is complete.

Liquid glass is an excellent preservative for eggs. Of course few people will be preserving eggs at this season of the year. An economical method of making rissole is to mash lib. cold potatoes with loz. butter, season well with salt and pepper, mince finely the remains of any cold meat (a little ham or bacon is an improvement), a dessert spoonful of tomato sauce; mix to a paste with a well beaten egg ; form into rissoles, dip in egg and bread crumbs, and fry golden brown; drain, serve with gravy.

To make doriners, chop fine and season Jib. cold meat, 2oz. beef suet, and 3oz. boiled rice. Roll in egg and bread crumbs and fry. Serve with gravy. A good Pie Crust. —Beat }lb. good beef dripping to a cream, add a tablespoonful of sugar and ilb. of thoroughly dried flour. Mix well, add tablespoonful of baking powder, mix with as little water as possible. Roll out quickly, handling as little as possible.

All stuffed chairs, couches, floorstools and such like articles of furniture, should every now and then be brushed first in the open air and then well beaten with a light cane or mattress beater. The beating must be dene lightly, or the tightly stretched threads of the covers are apt to be broken. Most soups are improved by having the stock or foundation liquid, prepared the day before the sou]) is required. The fat is more easily removed when the stock is cold. Do not cover either cold stock or cold soup.

To Clean all Sorts of Metal.- Mix half a pint of refined neatsfoct oil, and a half gill of spirit? of turpentine. Scrape finely a little rotten-stone, dip a woollen rag into the spirits, etc.. and then into the powdered rotten-stone, and with it rub the metal well, then wipe it off with a soft cloth, polish with dry leather, using more powder. In reference to steel, if very rusty, use a little powdered pumice with the liquid ri omir vo fn ? r\r> voir fivcf

To Sew with Double Cotton. —A simple mot'ml oi. Kc< double co\ton i'roro getting into knots, is to cat a length of cotton, double it and threat the iwo ends through the oyc of the ret die, ! ii'. i; pass iiv needle point through lli..- loop of the cotton double, forming a tiny sl'-p-kno{ a I the eye of the needle ; this keeps the cotton straight, and is fiat enough to pass through the finest fabric.

To Renovate a Suit of Clothes. — Thoroughly sponge with strong solution of ammonia except, for paint spots for which use turpentine first.: and grease is drawn out by holding a piece of red-hot iron just over it. When quite clean dry clothes in open air. as hanging by the lire to dry may give them a brownish tint, especially if the suit is navy blue. Then start pressing by taking the bagginess out of the knees. Turn the trousers inside out. well clamp the knee pari of tlio legs, and iron them with a very hot iron back and front under a thickness of wet calico, laying them out so that the seam? of the trousers come at the side, and not as they would be when the garments are folded. Then you turn them right side out again, and iron first one leg, then the other in the ordinary way., getting the crease clown the middle of the leg. Bagginess will have entirely disappeared, and they will look smart and new. Tested. Keep a small bottle of tincture of myrrh handy. A few drops added to a tumbler of water make? an excellent, mouth wash, and myrrh not only sweetens the breath, but preserves the teeth and helps to keep the gums strong and healthy. Some people think there is no tonic for the hair like one part of ordinary paraffin oil mixed with three parts eau-de-Cologne. The eau-de-Cologne prevents the objectionable odour that is usually noticeable after using paraffin, and prevents it from being so greasy. At night, before washing the face, rubwith a little cold-cream, leave for a few minutes, and then wipe off with a clean soft cloth. The grease will remove dust and dirt from the pore of the skin, and is far more effective than soap and water. For a skin inclined to develop acne this treatment is specially to be recommended.

An remedy for chapped hands is five* drops of carbolic acid added to one ounce of glycerine. Shake well together, and apply night and morning, rubbing it well into the skin. The carbolic helps to whiten the hands and dries in more easily than pure glycerine does.