FIGHTING WASTE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1941, Page 8

FIGHTING WASTE

SOME USEFUL HINTS, Sugar. When stewing fruit, add the sugar just before you take the fruit off the stove. You will then need far less sugar to sweeten the fruit than if you put the sugar in at the beginning. Sulj tanas, chopped tigs, or other dried I fruits, cooked with fresh fruits, mill: j puddings, steamed puddings, cakes and Iso on help to sweeten them. This both i saves sugar and adds to the nourish- ; ment of the dish. Left-overs. • There is no need for an ounce of : food to be wasted. Odds and ends ot 1 meat and vegetables, and the outside i leaves of cabbages and lettuces, finely j shredded, are excellent for soup-mak- | ing. Left-overs of meat and vegetables can also be made into savouries by chopping finely, mixing together, flavouring with herbs or cheese and re- ■ heating. Or the.y can be shaped into *, rissoles and fried. Or used as fillings j for pasties, savoury pancakes, or stuffed tomatoes. Stockings. | Always wash stockings before they | are worn—the dressing in them rej duces elasticity, which is restored when i this is washed out. It pays, too, to j see that your family don’t wear socks j and stockings more than once: more i washing means less darning and longer ; life, as the acid in perspiration is very •destructive. Also to be avoided is ! pulling up stockings too tight with : suspenders. Refuse. i Cottage gardens in olden days were s famed for :hoir fertility. Why. ; Chiefly because all the refuse from the i house was thrown on the soil. If you ■ collect all this stuff and maice comi post heaps, you can grow marrows on | one while the other is being piled up J gradually. It takes about six months i for a heap to rut. and by winter it is of ( a rich crumbly consistency.