HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 100, 3 October 1918, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Fish, may he scaled much easier by first dipping them into boiling water (or a minute. An immediate euro for hiccup Is to take a lujmp of sugar with a few drops of vinegar on it. A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will greatly aid the whitening process. The problem of rust stains has been solved by holding the damaged fabric in boiling rhubarb water. Lime powder well sprinkled where cockroaches abound will drive them away. , Chops for an Invalid should always be boiled, or cooked in a Dutch oven, never fried. When boiling fowls or fish, add to the water in which they are boiled the juice of half a lemon. This will make them beautifully white. When a fcaking-dish gets burnt in the using it should not be scraped. Simply place a little water and ashes in it and the burnt surface will come off easily without Injuring the dish.

To remove a blot of ink, or a figure from accounts, use a piece of fine sand-paper pressed tightly over the forefinger. Rub this on the spot till completely erased.

A clear fire for grilling purposes can be quickly obtained by sprinkling over it a little powdered nitre. This is, used a good deal by firstclass cooks and chefs.

To remove mildew from linen, first rub the spots with a piece of soap, then put on a layer of scraped chalk, hang up to bleach, and repeat process until the spots have disappeared.

Before using a new saucepan fill it with water and a lump of soda and some potato peelings, and let it boil for some hours. Then wash out thoroughly, and all poisoning from the tinned lining will be gone.

A good way to give stews a brown colour, without adding colouring,* is to save the outside of onions, and when washed add them to stew, and boil together. This will be found a much nicer way than adding brown* Ing.

Very frequently when separating the whites from the yolks of eggs the yolk becomes broken and falls into the white. Dip a cloth in warm water, wring it dry, and touch the yolk with a corner of it, and the yolk will adhere to the cloth and may easily be removed.

Grilling is similar to broiling, save that the gridiron is placed over the fire instead of in front of it. The fire must ba bright and smokeless, or the food will be either burned or smoked. The gridiron should be 2lean, hot and well greased before the meat Is placed on it.

After washing cut glass in the usual way, in soap and water, rinse in water in which a little washing blue has been dissolved. After drying, polish with tissue paper. This imparts a fine brilliance, which quite repays one for the little extra trouble taken.

Hot milk, heated to as high a tern, perature as it can be drunk, is a most refreshing stimulant in cases of cold or over-fatigue. The effect of hot milk is far more beneficial and lasting than that of alcohol. It gives real strength as well as acting as a fillip.

A very good way to prevent a cracked waahhand basin from breaking is to paint along the crack with white paint. Then place along it ai piece of white tape, the length of tho crack. Paint well over this, and when dry it will he as firm as cement and last for years.

"When washing and rinsing coloured materials add a teaspoonful of Epsom salts to each gallon of water, and even the most delicate shades will neither fade nor run. Serge or merino dresses, which have been dyed black, can be safely washed in this way without any risk of the dyo running. ""'

After using a bowl of starch do nol throw away what remains of the mixture. Place it on one side, and when the starch has settled pour off the clear water. Place the hasin in the oven for a few minutes, and when it is taken out the starch will be found in a hard cake, which can be put away ready for use another time. .. "When folding trousers to. have the crease running, back and front, in the dead begin thus; Catch the trouser bottoms in front, letting the side seam advance about one inch in front of the leg seam, bringing the two top front buttons together. This gives the correct place to told them. Laid carefully in the fold, they keep their uhap© &ra mm --* *-•--• ,-• -;*>'- '4