HOUSEMAIDS SAY THAT—

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 8 May 1914, Page 8

HOUSEMAIDS SAY THAT—

It is a good plan to roll sausages in flour before frying- them, as it prevents their" bursting. It is very convenient to have c board sprinkled with kitchen salt at hand when ironing-. The salt cleans the irons. American cloth is a first-rate fabric of which to make a kitchet apron, as it is so easily wiped over. This is a colour * fastening for printed fabrics. Dissolve one pennyworth of sugar of lead in a gallon of cold water. Plunge in the print shirts for one hour. Wring out and wash in the usual way. Colours never wash out after. This saves on the coal bill.—A good handful of common washing soda dissolved in a half gallon of warm water and then thrown over the coal and allowed to dry will lengthen the life of the coal by twice and give out just as mach heat. To save herring-boning, when making a flannel undergarment first run the seam again. By doing this you will find the stitcaes will wash into the flannel, and not b* seen. It is also much quicker than herring-boning.