HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 March 1926, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Newspaper is one of the finest window polishers, and tissue paper is equally good for cleaning silver. Wash machine-made, nice m plenty of.. soapy water, and rinse thoroughly. Stiffen with rice water, strained before use.

If you clean vour patent shoes with sour milk, you will preserve the leather and prevent cracking. When frying fish, a batter made of custard powder, flour and water (about one dessertspoonful of custard powder to two tablespoonfuls of flour) is a' cheap substitute lor eggs, and gives a better flavour than a batter made of flour and water. • ...

To remove the smell of onions, wash the knife that has been used to peel them, as well as the hands, in cold water. Hot or warm water docs not remove the smell at all. Jf the oven is inclined to burn at tho bottom, it is best to put a tiny bit of buttered paper in the bottom of all small cakes baked in patty tins. ’ Before applying polish to a. grate or stove that has burned red on top through over-heating, rub well with a cut lemon.

To remove tea stains from linen, mix the yolk of an egg with an equal quantity of glycerine, rub on the stain, and leave till dry. Rinse in cold water, and tho stain will disappear. To clean ivory—Discoloured ivorv can be cleaned with a little salt and saivolatile—or salt and lemon will often banish the stains. To keep ivory white it should be rubbed regularly with ienlon juice. It is usual for white lace, etc., to turn yellow if put away in white t.ssuc-paper. The lime used in tho paper" causes the discolouration. Use blue paper instead, and you will not be troubled m this way. When making pastry do not let the baking tins cover the over shelf, as the heat cannot rise properly, and the bottom of the pastry will be burnt. Mi’dow may be removed from linen by soaping the marks when wot and covering them with powdered chalk, which should be rubbed well in.

To clean a clothes wringer quickly and effectively, saturate a cloth in paraffin and rub the rollers. Let them dry thoroughly before wringing any clothes.

When .saucepans are not in use do not keep the lids on them, as this tends to make them smell fusty. The .saucepans should be placed upside down on a shelf.

Rice, tapioca, sago, salt, and roast coffee are all. things to buy in small quantities, as coffee loses its flavour by being kept, while often small insects appear in rice, etc., which has been kept a long time, and sale gets damp or too hard to t.-so.

A Chilblain Ointment.—The following is said to he a good ointment for chrbhiins: Two ounces of lard, half an ounce of turpentine, and a quarter of an ounce of camphor, melted" together. Rub it well in.