Hints and Ideas

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 14 (Supplement)

Hints and Ideas

Boiled fish breaks apart and is a bad colour because it is cooked too quickly an<] lemon juice has been omitted from the boiling water. After the water has reached boiling point it should be allowed to simmer only. Furs sometimes become very greasy at tho neck, so before cleaning them with hot bran, rub the greasy part with a little turpentine. Before putting on wallpaper, paste over any unsightly cracks in tho wail with strips of calico; then the cracks do not show through when the paper is applied. When, making dripping cakes add a teaspoonfui of lemon juice to the rest of the ingredients to counteract the flavour cf tho dripping. The use of an oiled duster in tho house is not sufficiently appreciated. A clean rag or an old duster may be soaked in paraffin, then wrung out tightly, and hung in the air for several hours. This does away with the disagreeable odour. Oiled dusters gather up the dirt effectively and dustlessly. Before beginning to remove a stain with petrol or any other liquid cleaner, damp tho material with the cleaner round the outside of the stain and work inwards. If not, the stain will extend as the damp circle grows bigger, and when dry tho soiled rim will bo very little improvement on the original stain.