HINTS AND RECIPES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3015, 25 March 1926, Page 1

HINTS AND RECIPES.

One part of borax to two of honey or glycerine is an excellent remedy for a sore throat.

Lemons shou]d be saved for cleaning copper and brass, and for whitening the wood of kitchen tables.

After using a dish or floor-mop wash it out in hot soda water, rinse in boiling water, and hang up to dry. By doing this regularly the mop is kept quite clean. To remove nuts from shells, pour hot water over the nuts, letting them soak about ten minutes. Drain off the water, let them cool, and then crack the shells. Walk round a room on the tiptoe several times a day if you want to keep slender ankles and avoid flat feet.

A piece of small-mesh wire netting placed over the top of the kitchen grate aslipan will enable the ash to fall through and the cinders to remain on top. These can be thrown on to the tire from time to time.

Milk puddings arc often failures because cheap rice has been used. This does not cream properly. A tablespoonful of milk in which a little brown sugar has been dissolved will glaze cakes and pastry just as well as the white of an egg. In embroidering an edge with butonholing, the usual foundation is a line of running stitch. A more effective way is to outline, holding them in place as you work along, and buttonhole over these.

Stale vegetables can be freshened by soaking them for two or three hours before cooking in cold water to which a teaspoonful of cream of tarter has been added.

A small cube of .camphor placed in the oil rcceptable' of a lamp will make it burn more brightly and with less smoke.

If you want to poach an egg specially nicely, separate the white and yolk, being very careful not to break the latter. Beat the white to a stiff froth, adding pepper and salt. Empty into a tiny basin, drop (lie yolk in the middle, stand the basin in a pan of nearly boiling water, cover over, and let remain till it is set — probably two or three minutes.