Hints and Recipes.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 310, 17 October 1929, Page 2

Hints and Recipes.

To remove grease from a kitchen table scrub it with hot water to which half a teaspoonful of whiting has been added. Wipe thoroughly with a clean dry cloth and the wood will be quite white again. When sewing-machine oil makes a stain on your sewing, rub the mark with lard, allow it to remain on for three hours, and wash out with cold water and soap. A damp cloth dipped in common salt will remove inkstains from a kitchen table. When washing white clothes, put a slice of lemon into the copper when I boiling and the clothes will come out white and free from stains. Cut tin

lemon, without rind, into slices and h-ave it in the copper unrd the clotacs are ready to be rinsed. Fruit stains are hard to remove with hot water alone, unless they are fresh. Many stubborn fruit stains, however* can be removed if they are soaked* for a day in sour milk, the stained material afterwards spread out smoothly on a board in the sun, and a little salt dampened with sour milk pu& over the stains. If you want a jelly to set quiekly* add just enough hot water to melt it and then cold water to make up the quantity required. A few drops of olive oil added to the last rinsing water when the head is washed will give the hair a gloss without making it greasy. If whipped cream is needed in * hurry, half fill a glass jar with the M ream, cork tightly and shake well. Care must be taken not to shake too long or the whipped cream may turn to butter. remove tar or grease marks from delicate fabrics, soak a piece of whits rag in eucalyptus oil and rub it Oh the affected part until the stain disg appears. To I%i move Scorch Marks. — Bleach the sco-cb«c* linen in the sunlight keeping ti«e marks wet with soapy water and glycerine; leave for half an hour, then wash. For silks and woollens, rub on powdered borax. A scorch mixture is made as follows: Peel, slice and pound one onion, and mix it with 2oz each of Fuller’s earth and half a.

pint of vinegar. Boil for ten miuutea, then strain, bottle and cork well. Spread over scorch marks, leave to dTy, then wash well. To Get Rid of Ants. —If you can find the hole by which the ants enter the house, drop some quicklime into the hole, then pour in boiling water. Another way is to dissolve some camphor in spirits of wine, mix with water and | pour into the holes. Or tooaeco water has often been found effective. Ifi I powdered borax is sprinkled over the I?} ots where the ants come, they will soon disappear. To trap the ants, place some broken wsinut shells where they appear, and when they have collected in numbers, drop the shells in hoii'ng water.