HINTS AND RECIPES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 7 April 1926, Page 3

HINTS AND RECIPES.

Linoleum should be washed with a soil cloth and lukewarm or cold water. Hot water and soap are mjunous to Urn paint of the pattern. - , Cut flowers-wi I last well d a pinch of'.saltpetfe be added to the water m which chcv are placed. . tl you want a rihnon threaded ill a liurry and you cannot timi the bodkin, £rv n hairpin. . , Will'll saucepans are not ill use, <lO not keep .the lids on them, an this tends "to make them-smell musty. Ihe sauee'paiis should be placed upside down on just before cooking large joints, sue.h as topside of beef or a leg ot mutton, beat them with a rolling pin, and the} will be more tender when cooked. AVlum cooking greens, boil a. piece o. parsley in with tnem. This prevents anv disagreeable smell. instead of using ordinary shoe polish for line glace kul .shoes, rub them with a little vaseline, leave overnight, and then pnlidi with a soft silk duster. If there is a disagreeable taste ill the mouth when you awake in tho morning a dose of powdered charcoal will be found of great use in curing it. A half-glass of hot water drunk just before retiring for the night will a.so be found to he of great use. To remove fat from soup or gravy, strain through a cloth that has been soaked in cold water. Never turn meat on a grill with a fork or all the good gravy will eseapo through the holes. If you have no proper kitchen tongs for turning grilled food, use the sugar tongs or a fishslice. . Jn cold weather all children should be. given fat in some form. Very'often it is preferred to give milk tat, by which is meant cream and butter. This is very important, and, theretore- necessary to the growing child. Ho not ski in milk intended for children, for in doing f-o vou are taking away a very essential part of their diet. A\ believer the milk has no cream the children should have butter to }.a k<> its In fact, butter should be given as plentifully as possible as well as ci'fam. Suet puddings supply fat in a palatable form, and, if they can be taken, pure olive oil and cod-liver oil are beneficial.

AVERAGES OF FOOD CONSUMED WEEKLY. The following table may help the housekeeper in her catering, although, naturally, households differ greatly, some eating more or less of one commodity than others : Milk. —One gill per day, exclusive of puddings. Children will, of course, require much more liuilk. Meat. —'ll) of uncooked meat pelday without bone. fib. with bone. Blitter. —(Sow a week. Sugar. Jib per week. Tea, —loz. per week cheese. ,7am.—illl. per week. This does not include buttes - , sugar and margarine, etc., for conking, and, of course, when fish and vegetables are liked less meat will be reauircdT

Individual little bowls for serving soup have now superseded the aoup plates in popular favour. They are made of earthenware or fireproof glass, in which the '.soup can bo heated, or the soup can bo turned out of little pottery casseroles into pretty pottery or china bowls. USEFUL LEMON JUICE. A lemon is a thing which no woman should ever be without, if possible, for —apart from its culinary uses, and ilicy are innumerable—it is invaluable as a toilet aid. A teaspoonful of lemon in the l'insing water brings out the lights in fair hair. Lemon juice whitens and softens the hands when rubbed in immediately alter washing them. The teeth are whitened by a biweekly brushing with lemon juice. Your white neck will return as if bv magic if, when bathing, you rub it with the remains of half a lemon (turned inside out) after the juice has been squeezed out.