EVERYDAY ECONOMIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 135, 29 August 1927, Page 5

EVERYDAY ECONOMIES

THE WITS-END CLUB A new novel may be selected by *be winner each week as a prize for the most original household hint or recipe that has been tested and found to save time, labour or money. Manv folk might be glad to nave the benefit of your experience, so send in your suggestions, addressed to The Homecrafts Editor. Women’s Page, THE SUN. Auckland. The prize this week has been awarded to Mrs. L. Randolph, Parnell, for the following hints: TO CLEAN SUEDE GLOVES When these are not sufficiently soiled to warrant a visit to the cleaners, try the following method. Put the glove on the hand, take a soft pencil eraser end rub all over carefully but briskly. You will be amazed to find how easily and quickly this cleans yours gloves, and it has the advantage of cheapness to recommend it. FOR NEW CURTAINS New curtains should be steeped overnight in water in which a packet of salts has been dissolved. The salts remove all lime from the curtains and make it easier to get them clean. A GLOVE SUGGESTION Xew kid glaves are not likely to split when first put on if they are placed between folds of a damp towel for an hour or two before they are required. —L.R. * * * SOME USEFUL HINTS The skimmings of fat from off soups, etc., should be saved for frying purposes. * * * Heat your knife before cutting new bread or cake, and it will prevent crumbling. Flour thrown upon burning oil will instantly extinguish it, while water only the flames. When salt is dried for the table, do not put it into salt cellars until quite cold! if put in warm, it will harden into a lump. * * # Charcoal absorbs impure gases. Place a saucer filled with charcoal in the safe where meat is kept. It will act as a disinfectant. if * Silverware that is used ornamentally should be well cleaned, then rubbed with a very little sweet oil. Finally, polish with a leather. When making jam tarts, brush the paste that will be under the jam with beaten white of an egg, and it will prevent it from getting sodden. Polished furniture will retain its gloss if a little linseed oil is rubbed well in after the polishing. Re sure to give a final rub to remove any trace of oil. To use nutmeg scraps, save all that are too small to grate and grind them in the coffee mill. Where a. large quantity is used, this will be found a great saving. An easy method to mend a lace curtain in a hurry, until time can be spared for darning it, is to cut a piece of net of a mesh as near a match to that of the curtain as possible, dip it in boiled starch and iron over the torn part until dry. * # sis Mirrors will retain their clearness if a few drops of ammonia are put in the water with which they are washed, afterwards rubbing the glass with the merest suspicion of glycerine, the finishing touches being given with a soft cloth. A USE FOR AN OLD CLOCK If a small clock is beyond repair do not throw it away, but set it aside for use in a sick-room. It will then be found good to indicate the next time for taking medicine. As each dose is given to the patient, turn the hands to the hour when the next dose will be due. This is better than trusting to memory. CLEANING MARBLE Apply the following mixture, and leave it on for 24 hours: Take £lb. soft soap, the same quantity of pounded whiting, loz. of common soda and a small piece of stone-blue boiled together for about 20 minutes, and while hot rubbed over the surface of the marble. It must be cleaned off with soap and water, and then the marble will require polishing with a rough flannel. Alabaster is usually cleaned with a little warm soap and water and a brush; or with warm water to which a few grains of carbonate of soda have been added. MARKS ON MAHOGANY The white stain left on a mahogany table by a jug of boiling water or a very hot dish , may be removed by rubbing in oil, and afterwards pouring a little spirits of wine on the spot, and rubbing it dry with a soft cloth. Then polish with furniture polish. If the stains are slight, they sometimes disappear if a hot plate be held over them. RAISIN RICE PUDDING 1 quart milk, £-cup of rice, 5 teaspoonful salt, ?j cup sugar, 1 cup seedless raisins, 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Wash rice thoroughly and drain. Place in a battered baking dish and pour in the milk. Rake in a slow oven for 15 hours, stirring occasionally. Add remaining ingredients and bake about an hour longer. Do not stir any more, but allow to become golden brown on top.

RAISIN BREAD PUDDING 1 thick slice bread, 2 cups scalded milk, third of a cup of sugar, 2 eggs, l cup seedless raisins, 1 teaspoonful vanilla, gating of nutmeg. Soak bread in cold water to cover 15 minutes, press drv and measure 1 cupful. Beat eggs, add sugar, scalded milk, bread crumbs, raisins and flavouring. Pour into buttered baking dish, sprinkle with nutmeg. Set dish in pan of hot water and bake in moderate oven until firm.

WAYS OF MAKING GOOD COFFEE Put coffee in bag or sieve and pouiover it furiously boiling water. If cloth is used one pouring is enough. Brew is complete when water drips through grounds and further cooking is unnecessary. One teaspoonful for each cup of coffee. Either cold or hot water may be poured into percolator; if the latter percolation starts at once and five minutes over hot lire is sufficient. Never vary the time. Put dry coffee in pot and pour over it fresh boiling