EVERYDAY ECONOMIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 313, 26 March 1928, Page 5

EVERYDAY ECONOMIES

THE Wrrs-END CLUB

A new novel way be selected by ths winner each week as a p/ize for the most original household hint or recipe that has been tested and found to save time, labour or money. Many folk might be plad to have the benefit of your expenenee, so send in your suggestions, addressed to The Homecrafts editor. Women’s Pace, THS SUN. Auckland.

The prize this week has been awarded to Mrs. H. A. Quirk, of Ewen Street, Takapuna, for the following hints:

I have discovered that green apples or any apples which are rather tasteless and colourless can be made into a delicious dish by the addition of red cinnamon drops. Add the cinnamon drops when starting to cook the apples, and by the time they are done the cinnamon drops will have imparted a delicate colour and a cinnamon flavour which is most pleasing. Add sugar to taste in the usual manner.

A sash curtain rod on the inside of a wardrobe door makes a convenient place to hang hose in pairs. One can easily see their condition better than when rolled and put in a drawer.

When darning stockings do not use draning stitches when the heels of your stockings become thin at the line of the top of your shoes. Use a spool of silk and make parallel lines of fine chain stitches. This matches the stocking mesh so well than it can scarcely be detected.

Mrs. J. L. M. writes:—Before washing new tinware the articles should be placed in a warm oven for half an hour. This will prevent the tin rusting, though much of the bright finish will disappear. Kerosene tins to be used for washing, if treated in this way and dried thoroughly after using, will last a considerable time without rusting.

Since tables are often spoiled by water seeping through the earthenware pots which hold ferns and plants, it is a good idea to make the earthenware plates which hold the pots waterproof. Put a piece of paraffin wax in each plat© and set in a warm oven long enough to allow it to melt, and sink into the pores of the earthenware, turning the dishes so that the sides are paraffined also. Pour out superfluous liquid and allow to cool.