HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 451, 25 July 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

——♦ When washing woollen goods add a dessertspoonful of cloudy ammonia te the water. It prevents shrinking. A simple disinfectant.—Vinegar hern* in a shovel or sprinkled about a roesi acts as an excellent disinfectant. To whiten wooden floors, add tw» tablespoon!'uls of paraffin to the haft soapy water used for washing the floor. Lemon and orange peel should be hung up to dry, and saved far tta\ ing cakes and puddings. A small piece ef camphor placed n the reservoir of a lamp will make the light brighter and stronger. When cooking greens add a finch of baking powder to the water. This will answer the same purpose aa car' bonate of soda.

When washing lace curtaine allow them to dry thoroughly before starching, and they will last clean quits a month longer than usual. When baking potatoes, place tlem in hot water for 15 minutes before putting in the oven. They will then bake in half the tune, and aa elect a saving in gas. Keep a small box ia the kitchen, and into this throw all used matches and ends of candles too small to burn. The contents of this box will he neat useful for lighting fires. When boiling a pudding ptrt any orange peel which may be at hand into the water. It collects the grease and makes the pudding-cloth easier to wash. Dried and heated sawdust wifl iemove grease spots from carpets er linoleum. Sprinkle the sawdust over the spot, leave for a abort time, and then sweep .off. To preserve the yolks of eggs when the whites ouly have been used, place the yolks in a basin and just cover with cold water. Cover with a plate, and stand in a cool place till requir-

ed. When blowing out a candle hold the light above you and then Wow. If you do this the wick will not smoulder, and therefore the candle will be easily lighted again. Tic contrary will be the case if you blew downwards. Excellent starch can lie made by boiling a few spoonfuls of good, wellwashed lico for an hour in clean water. Economical housewives can use is starch the water in which rice for the table has been boiled. When oilcloth looks old and is wearing thin, take ir up. sprinkle the floor thickly with sawdust, and relay the oil cloth. Then give a coat of varnish, and it will look better, wear longer, and feel thicker. A g-ood substitute for butter in cakemaking is produced by mixing some mutton fat with an equal quantity of other drippin::; clarify it, and when wanted be.it to a cream with a little lemon juice and as much carbonate o! suda as will lie on a threepenny piece.