FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1941, Page 8

FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

SOME USEFUL, HINTS. If cream of tartar is beaten into I dripping, before the dripping is used I for cakes), it will disguise the fatty j flavour completely. Beat before adding the sugar. When making mint sauce, if the mint is dipped in vinegar before being chopped up it will, keep its bright green colour. If the leaves are washed in water before being chopped, they will turn brown. The smell of stale smoke can be quickly cleared out of a room by burning a few drops of vinegar on a hot shovel. The room will be freshened immediately. If onions are cut before making the salad and sprinkled with sugar, they will be odourless. Keep a small tin or muslin bag of talc powder in your knitting bag and workbox. A little dusted on the hands keeps them cool and the work clean on hot days. When you have finished ironing a child’s pleated skirl slip a bobby pin over each pleat until ready for wearing. Wax floor polish if beaten to a cream with turpentine will last longer. Also there is less likelihood of slipping on floors polished with wax treated in this way.