HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1903, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

USEFUL INFORMATION FOR THE KITCHEN.

The whites of potted eggs can be whisked to as stiff a froth as new-laid ones by adding a pinch of Bait to the 'whites.

Wees oookino greens and cauliflowers always put a piece of stale bread crust in the saucepan, as it will take away all the unpleasant smell. Take out with a spoon before taking up the greens.

Cocoasut Drops.—Grate a cocoanut, add an equal weight of sugar, and a very small quantity of flour ; mix with an egg. but not too stilly, and drop with a knife point into small tins. Bake in a slow oven.

SuGiß Kissss.—Whisk the whites of four eggs to a stiff broth ; stir in it halt a pound of sugar; flavour as you like. Lay it when stiff in heaps on white paper the shape and size of an egg ; put them in a hot oven.

Boiling Old Potatoes.—When boiling old potatoes, which are apt to go a very dark colour, put a tablespoonful of milk into the water in which they are boiled, and you will find they will be beautifully white whea cocked. How to Know Good Bekf.—The meat should be a deep red colour, and the fat a pure white. The finer pieces are generally veined with fat. No mark should remain when pressed with the finger, and the flesh should be quite firm. Sposge Gixokkbread Cake. —One and a half pounds of flour, five ounces of butter, six ouuctß of sugar, two teaepoonfuls (large) of baking-powder, two teaspoonfals (large) of ground ginger, one pound of syrup, and a gill of milk. Half fill the tins, and bake immediately in a slow oven about one to one and a quarter hours.

When blacking has become dry and hard mix well with a little vinegar; it will give an excellent polish (o the boots. Save all soft biti of paper for polishing lamp-chimneyr, or for wipirg grease from frying pans, etc., before washing. "It is not generally known that a sa'tspoonfnl of salt added to a quart of coffee when made greatly improves the flavour. For removing the b-own from earthenware, after being in the oven, rub well with salt, which will take it off almost directly. When mating down pillows wax the inner covering, and then the feathers and down will not be able to work through the cover. To do this, iron the wrrng side of the tidy with a very hot iron rubbed with t«esw»x, passing the iron over (he wax every time it is inbbad on the clotb. Delicate children whom a mother really feels obliged to keep indoors during wet weather should not be allowed to remein idle or to kesp tilting (till for iorg at a time. A few minutes spent in doinj calis thenics in another room, while the rom where they have been niltirg is ventilated by a the ough draught, will be found very valuable in preventing the little ones getting a headache aid becoming cross. ' How to Hake a Fire.—The paper should net be packed or stuffed in, but laid lighfc'y on the basa of t>e grate. Arrange the wood above tbis so that it lies from back t > front, asd put a few pieces pa' tially crosswise, to! form a sol t of lattice - on which the small coal m.y rest When the fire has or.ee burmd up, place one tr two lumps of large coal towards the front, and, having sifted the cinders which were removed when the fireplace was ' cleared out, place them, slightly damped, at the back of the fire. Another good way to keep a fire "in" econrmically is to moisten the coal dust till it forms a sort oi rough lump and put on •lie A*tf. Thsa-will~biMrn"~d long rime, but it wocld, of coarse, be fatal to other. ban a fire which hid well burned up.