HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 745, 13 February 1915, Page 7

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

.When testing a cake to see if it'll thoroughly baked, use a clean bright skewer instead of a knife. To bleach discolored white materials) soak in buttermilk for several hours. This will make them snowy white. To soften the hands after washing with soap and water, rub with oatmeal while still wet.. When cooking turnips, drop a small lump of sugar among- them. It improves them, wonderfully. To remove .grease from wallpaper, rub the spot over once or twice with! a piece of flannel damped with alcoliol. To remove mud from clothes, scrape tvifcli the edge of a penny. This will not destroy the nap of the cloth and will quickly romove the mud. When butter is too hard to spread easily,' if beaten to a cream it will b« found a much niccn plan that-if warmed, and not at all so wasteful. To slice tomatoes thinly, use an ordinary knife saw. It is far superior to knife, and will cut them very thinly. When baking- tartlet cases, place * round of thin paper, filled with raw rice, in the centre of each. This presents the pastry from rising in th« middle. It is an excellent plan to keep a sup--ply of old newspapers for spreading 1 on the kitchen table when cooking. Old jxercise-books and catalogues a T so .;ome in very han<iy for standing pota

When cutting up jelly squares, us© a pair of perfectly clean scissors dipped in cold water. The jelly.can then be cut into much smaller pieces than when a knife is used, and dissolves luicker.