HOUSEHOLD KNITS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 December 1914, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD KNITS.

Tf you want to heat a Hat-iron in your room, a tin plate • over the gas-jet will enable you to heat the iron twice as quickly. Scorch-marks on linen may be removed by rubbing fresh-cut onion, the garment being afterwards soaked in cold water. To stop hiccup, give the patient a teaspooniul of granulated sugar" and vinegar. If this docs not alTord instant relief, repeat the do9e. When boiling" any kind of greens, use sugar in place of soda, which gives the greens a much better flavour, but they then require a little longer cooking. To keep the white of an egg from leaving the yolk and scattering about in the water, take a spoon and stir the water rapidly round for a few seconds, then drop the egg gently in the "hole" in Lhe centro «>f the whirlpool formed by the rapid circular motion of the spoon. Boil up quickly for three or four minutes. To cook foreign eggs and make them equal in flavour to fresh country eggs, try this plan. Prick a hole with a needle each end of the i egg-, then put into boiling water and boil for three minutes. .Remove from the pan, open the top of the shells a little, so that the air ceils can expand. Replace in the pan again for a minute or so, and tbcs will then be cooked d^ioiotwly. .