Housekeeping Hints.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 432, 28 December 1889, Page 3

Housekeeping Hints.

A Makeshift Outside Bund. — Outsid blinds are effective in keeping a room cool, as they prevent heating of the air -within the glass. Where, however, an outside blind is not supplied to a window, a simple makeshift can be provided by opening the sash at the top and putting the inside blind outside. In order to prevent the blind rattling if there is wind, the tassel at the bottom can be brought into the room below, and the lower sash closed down on the cord to hold it. Preserving Orange Peel. — Some time ago a correspondent) asked for a recipe ko preserve orange and lemon peel. . Here is one we liave recently' come across : — Soak the peel in strong salt water nine days, changing the water every three, days ; then dry on a cloth or sieve, simmer -till transparent in a syrup made by .boiling together one quart of water and onq pound of white sugar. Then make a rich syrup of sugar, adding just* enough water'tcT. the sugar to dissolve it, and when .it Js foiling throw in the peels and stir them conafanlytill all the sugar is candied'arduhd them. Dry them thoroughly in a warm oven and put away for use. - ' ' J -"! i Starching Shirt Fronts.— Shirt fronts never blister if starched on the right side, but if they are wrong side oufcwhen starched they are apt to do so. iPour' mixed starch into boiling water, instead :6f pouring boiling water on the starch,' in'that way never using more starch than is necessary, as > the simple starch and water canbe saved;

Apple . Tapioca r Pt;hDit?G.< — Soak ovar night, 'one icapi of taoioca in- six cup's of water.' Next morning ndd ono cup susa^i one egjj, and beat' 'well fiopotlier.- Then pare, core, and chop fine aitf or more apples, and sfcir with theitapioca in • pudding dish, an^ b»ke elovrly.