Household Hints

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 285, 13 August 1910, Page 3

Household Hints

FOR CLEANING WHITE SHOES. Use a saturated solution of oxide of zinc. Buy the oxide of zinc in powder, put it into a wide-mouthed bottle, and fill the bottle with water. Apply the liquid with a sponge, and let the shoes dry overnight; repeat, if necessary, the next night. This is excellent for cleaning kid or canvas shoes. The shoes should be kept on trees, or stuffed with tissue paper, while being cleaned. Let them dry in some safe place, where they will be free from dust.

TO RENOVATE CRAPE. Place the crape, or crape-trimmed garment on a table, and cover it with a wet cloth —linen for preference. Hold a very hot flat-iron so close to the wet cloth that it steams, but be careful not to press the cloth with the iron. Leave the crape spread out till dry. A crape-trimmed skirt can be renovated thus again and again. Crossway strips of crape should be wound round a wooden roller, which should then be laid across a large basin of boiling water. The crape should remain in the steam till thoroughly damp, and it should be allowed to dry before it is taken off the roller. GREASE ON CLOTIL

Soft grease marks can be removed in the following way:—Spread dry fuller's earth over the spot, pressing well down, and leave for an hour or two; then shake off and repeat, continuing this until the mark hardly shows. Brush well with a quite clean brush to remove all trace of the fuller's earth. Then rub with a cloth moistened with benzine, or some other dry grease removing agent, working from the outside of the spot towards the centre.

USEFUL RECIPES. To Use up Cold Pork.—Cut it into neat slices, sprinkle it with pepper and salt, fry on both sides, and serve with apple sauce. Try Ham Steaks. —Cut thick slices from a raw ham, put them in to a frying pan with a small cupful of water, and cook slowly, turning once or twice till the water has evaporated and the steaks are light brown. Dredge lightly with flour. Have ready a sauce made by boiling a teacupful of milk, a small piece of butter, a teaspoonful of mustard, and a few grains of cayenne. Arrange the steaks on a dish and pour the boiling sauce"over them garnishing the dish with triangular-shaped sippets of toast. Economical White Soup.—Put one pint of water to boil with one pint of milk. Directly it reaches boiling point throw in an onion, and two ounces of macaroni, broken into short lengths. Simmer gently for an hour, and then add some breadcrumbs, and cook, for a quarter of an hour longer. Pass all through a wire sieve, return to the pan, and season to taste with white pepper, salt, and a few grains of powdered mace. When in the tureen scatter a little chopped parsley over. Hand-grated parmesan cheese can be used with this soup. Baked Lemon Pudding.—Place three ounces of breadcrumbs or pieces of bread in a basin, then pour over one pint of boiling milk. Cover with a plate and set to cool. Beat the yolks of two, eggs till very light with three ounces of castor sugar. Warm two ounces of butter and add to the other ingredients with the grated rind of a large lemon. Beat all the ingredients with the soaked bread, and pour the mixture into a greased piedish. Bake till set, then spread with lemon curd, and on the top heap the frothed white of egg. Return the pudding to the oven to brown slightly. Scatter chopped almonds over, and serve. Iced Chocolate Cake.—Four eggs, four ounces castor sugar, four ounces butter, four ounces flour, four ounces chocolate. Cream the butter and sugar and add the well-beaten eggs. Sift in the flour and stir all lightly together. Have ready a well-greased sandwich tin and pour in the mixture and bake for fifteen minutes in a quick oven. For the chocolate icing take the chocolate and dissolve it in a pan with a little water. Put four ounces castor sugar in another pan with one gill water, stir till it boils, and add it to the chocolate, mixing both well together till it lines the wooden spoon when it is ready for use. When the cake is cool, split it an spread half the icing on the bottom half and replace the other half or the cake. Then spread the rest of the chocolate icing over the top, taking care to keep it evenly covered. Use a large palette knife, and should the icing be inclined to stick dip the knife frequently into hot water. Lay aside to cool, and then decorate with sugar. Swiss Roll. —Two teacupsful castor sugnr, two teacupsful flour, two teaspoonsful baking powder, four eggs. Mix the sugar, flour and baking powder together, and break the eggs into the dry ingredients, beating all for *jye minutes. Have ready a flat tin used fora batter pudding, mixture in evenly, baking to ten minutes in a sharp n on to a sheet of sugared with jam quickly, and while crack.