EVERYDAY ECONOMIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 289, 27 February 1928, Page 4

EVERYDAY ECONOMIES

THE WITS-END CLUB A new novel may be selected by the winner each week as a p/ixe 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 i of your experience, so send in your suggestions, addressed to The Homecrafts Editor, Women’s Page, THI SUN. Auckland. I This week the prize has been given | to Mrs. R. McLean, Herne Bay, for the I following suggestions: 1 „ MACHINE OIL MARKS I fancy it is not generally known that eucalyptus oil will remove grease (including machine oil) from Any fabric, no matter how delicate, without injury |of any kind. The home dressmaker will probably be glad to make a note of this “tip,” as oil is so often spilt on to a home ‘creation” in the making, owing to a badly-oiled machine. SETTING-IN SLEEVES The amateur dressmaker is sometimes puzzled to discover the exact part of the arm hole wherein to place the underseam of the sleeve, preparatory to sewing it in. Here is a helpful method. Measure one inch from the shoulder seam at the back: put pin for a “marker.” Lay the two sides of the armhole together with the pin from the exact middle at the top, and put a pin in the middle at the bottom or under-part of the arm. Fold the front of the armhole in half, having the two pins together, and put a pin at the half of the folded front. That will indicate the place where the seam of the sleeve is to be put, and where the tack- j ing-pin of the sleeve should begin. R. McL. NEW WAYS WITH APPLE AND ONION SAUCES We are all acquainted with boiled apple and onion sauces, usually made by the rule of thumb, and often very badly. But not everyone is acquainted with baked apple sauce, brown onion sauce, or brown apple sauce, for which the following are good recipes: BAKED APPLE SAUCE Put 1 tablespoonful of water into a quart basin and fill it up with good cooking apples which you have peeled, sliced and cored. Put a plate over the basin to exclude the air and place it in a moderate oven until the apples are reduced to a pulp. Beat them smooth with a wooden spoon, adding a ! little brown sugar and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Put back into \ the oven, covered, to keep warm, and serve hot. BROWN APPLE SAUCE Stew down to a perfectly smooth pulp j one pound of peeled and sliced cooking apples, with a tablespoonful of brown i sugar, in about one-third of a pint of : rich, brown gravy. When soft and quite j smooth, season rather highly with black | pepper or cayenne, and serve very hot. j Curry sauce, with the apples added and reduced to pulp, will make an excellent substitute for the gravy. Serve 1 with pork, goose, duck or any rich meat. BROWN ONION SAUCE Slice two or* three large Spanish j onions into a casserole in which two ounces of butter have been melted. Keep the onions stewing in this, very gently, until they are coloured light brown; then pour over them half a pint of brown gravy and, when quite tender, pass the onions through a pulper or rub through a sieve. Season with a little cayenne and serve very hot. 4 SOUBISE Skin, slice and mince quickly two j pounds of the white part only of some i fine, mild onions. Stew them in two | ounces of butter till reduced to a pulp: then pour over them three-quarters of j a pint of veal or giblet gravy. Add a I seasoning of salt and cayenne. Rub ' through a sieve if you have no pulp- ! ing machine, reheat into a clean pan. j adding half of a quarter-sized tin of ; evaporated milk, and serve immediately. . M.M. ! VINEGAR CAKE Eggs have an unpleasant habit of before Christmas, just when Materfamilias wants to make a good supply of cakes to last over the holidays. The following recipe, requiring no eggs, makes a nice, economical, family cake: lib. flour, Sib. butter (or butter and ! dripping), »lb. sugar, Sib. stoned rais- ; ins, sultanas or currants, a little canj !r le< * P ee J» 2 teaspoonfuls baking soda i 1 cup of milk, 2 tablespoons vinegar! Bake in a moderate oven for about IS hours. When baked remove carefully ! from tin; being light it is apt to break i } if care is not taken. NIP PUDDING Two cupfuls flour, 1 cupful sultanas. 1 ; 1 tablespoonful suet. 1 tablespoonful golden syrup* 1 table- ! spoonful butter. 1 teaspoonful baking ’ soda, sugar to taste, milk to mix- put into buttered basin, leaving room to I sweil cover with grease-proof papeand boil three hours. j ECONOMICAL STEAMED PUDDING of a P ou n<i of flour fnto ft L ° r dripping rubbed into it 4oz. sugar, small teaspoon soda; Jib. sultanas or currants 1 egg, | cupful milk; boil in basin nr floured cloth for two hours. TO CLEAN CANE CHAIRS I Only warm water and a scrubbing brush should be used to wash cane ! chairs. Soap should never be used for this will be absorbed bv the cane ssvsss ! up wonderfully. resnen them | TO CLEAN YOUR SINK I Should your sink become brown and I ; discoloured, well sprinkle if »» ™ v-ith powdered chloride of l.w I thing at night. In the morning Til thift l yon e< Zm ar ßria Se'SgAfH | peared. This also has dlsa P" !

TAKAPUNA GARDEN PARTY

SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION ! A’* the home of Mr W Mills SF* 5 a .p j noon. Ue Over aP Fso' “ ! fUndS ° f the Sudan ra unned°MlsP.m he b r?h e e n W wf rs M.A.. vicar of Takapuna. Represen-’ ! tatl J e s °f all churches combined to i make the afternoon a success | The stalls were set up under trees in the grounds, and "the stocks of fancy goods, produce, cakes, and sweets were soon depleted. Afternoon tea j was served on the lawn, and on a I verandah overlooking the gardens The garden party is an annual j affair. Purify your blood by taking Sul- ! farilla. Everyone needs a tonic such t as Sulfarilla Tablets. They enrich .the blood and remove waste'products. ! Is 6d a box. o'