EVERYDAY ECONOMIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 159, 26 September 1927, Page 5

EVERYDAY ECONOMIES

THE WIT3-END CLUB A new novel may be selected by the winner each week as a pzize for the most original household hint or recipe that has been tested and found to save time, labour or money. Many folk might be glad to have the benefit of your experience, so send in your suggestions, addressed to The Homecrafts Editor, Women’s Page, THF SUN. Auckland. The prize this week has been awarded to Mrs. L. Russell, Dominion Road, for the following suggestion: UTILISING SOAP SCRAPS Save all scraps of toilet soap of every description, and, when you have accumulated enough, grate into very small pieces and put through a mincer, using the medium cutter first, and then the fine one. To 1 cup of this granulated soap add 15 cups of oatmeal and put through the mirtce-r again until the whole is reduced to a coarse meal. When all will pass readily through a meat-sieve, add loz of olive oil to each 2h cupfuls of the soap-and-oatmeal mixture. Mix thoroughly, and put into an ordinary f.ruit-jar with a rubber ring in place. Keep a quantity on the kitchen sink or in the bathroom. It is invaluable for cleansing soiled hands and keeping them soft and smooth. —L.R. PRECIPITATED WHITING One of the easiest ways to clean discoloured silverware is to rub it with precipitated whiting that has been moistened with ammonia. The whiting may be precipitated at home. Tie any quantity of whiting loosely in a clean cloth. Under the knot insert a stick that is strong enough to bear its weight when submerged in water and long enough to bridge a pail or dish in which the.re is cold water. Let the cloth and whiting remain in the water for 24 hours, then remove and pour off the water. At the bottom of the dish you will have your precipitated whiting. Allow it to dry thoroughly before using on your silver You w r ill find this better and cheaper than buying plate-powder. BAKED GINGER PUDDING One egg, loz butter, 1 cup flour, 1 small cup sugar, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, 5 teaspoonful soda, 15 dessertspoonful ground ginger, pinch of salt. Sieve flour, cream of tartar, salt and ginget together. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and beat, then add to flour. Dissolve soda in milk to moisten the whole. Pour into buttered pie dish and bake in hot oven for about 20 minutes. Serve with custard. For those who desire to avoid as much as possible the unpleasantness of the stuffy kitchen, this recipe should prove a boon. It takes only a few minutes to prepare for the oven and is also an economical and tasty disli. YORKSHIRE PUDDING To be Eaten With Roast Beef., Many cooks do not appear to understand the making of Yorkshire pudding, their idea being a flat tough slab, rather calculated to cause indigestion. The fault usually lies in having the batter too thick, preventing it rising as it should do. Another mistake is in using baking powder which is not required; properly-made batter will be lighter and much nicer without powder. Well beat 2 eggs, add 2 tablespoons milk, then stir in gradually 3 good tablespoons flour, beating lightly till free from lumps; a little more flour if necessary, as eggs vary in size; the batter must be smooth; then add 4 tablespoons milk; pepper and salt to taste. The joint can either be placed on a dish and kept hot. or on a tripod and the batter poured into the dripping under the meat. The oven should be fairly hot, when the pudding will - rise

up in great bubbles; when cooked should be served at once.^ HOUSEHOLD HINTS A little salt added to a milk pudding greatly improves the flavour, not only in rice, sago or vermicelli custard but also in semolina or maizena blancmange. Salt removes the flat taste usually associated with a nnlk pudding. When making coffee always add a pinch of salt. The pure juice of a lemon, without sugar, dropped into t'm back of the throat from a teaspoon, helps to cure a cold or catarrh. MOCK TOAST lib mincemeat. 1 egg, 1 breakfast cup of breadcrumbs, a little milk, pepper, salt, a pinch of cayenne. Beat egg and mix with other ingredients. Put in greased roasting tin, and roast for three-quarters of an hour. Serve with mashed potatoes. USEFUL HINTS Stir scalded milk occasionally while it is cooling, and a skin will not form on top. Shabby brown shoes may be improved. if the tips show signs of wear, by painting with iodine. Salt on the fingers when cleaning meat, fowls and fish will prevent the hands from slipping. Before covering wooden buttons for washing dresses, boil them in strong soda water. This will take all the turpentine, out of the wood and prevent the buttons from discolouring the material when the dress is washed. Cocoa-tins of uniform size make good spice sets. Paint them any desired colour, and when dry stencil the names in gold paint. A little wooden container is easily made for them, and. can be painted to match. To paste paper cuttings in a book without those nasty creases and bucklings, slightly damp the back of the cuttings with water and apply the g uo or paste to the book itself. When you have emptied the piedish in which a milk pudding has been baked, pour boiling water into it, swish it round and. a fe\v moments later, pour off. Then turn upsidedown so that it will steam, and by the time you have finished washing-up it will be as easy to wash as a teacup. To keep a stove well polished without blacklead, take equal parts of boiled linseed oil. kerosene and vinegar, shake well, apply to the stove with a flat brush and rub with a duster. Two single kapok mattresses on the double bedstead, instead of the usual double one, are to be recommended. They are much easier to handle, and in a case of sickness the patient need not move out of bed, as one side can be shaken up at a time. Fleas in the house can be banished by adding a little ammonia to the | water used in washing the floors. Blacklead marks can be removed from carpets by applying a paste made of Fuller’s earth and water to which a little ammonia has been added. Leave the paste on for three or more hours, then brush briskly.