Household Help Column.
All communications for the Household Help col unin should be addressed " Annette;" c/o Advekticer, Waimate.
Correspondents may use initials ornom do pluino in signing queues or answers; but all must enclose their names and ad-dr-'sses as n, guaiantee of good iaifh, find also obseno the press uilu of Avuring on one side of the paper only.
In reply to Miss L , B.A.A. (Hunter) sends the following method of dressing sheepskins, whii-h has been tried and found Aery successful :—: — Make a strong lather with hot water, and let it stand till cold; wash the fiesh skin m it, carefully squeezing otit all the dirt from the wool. Then wash in cold water till all the soap is taken out. Dissolve a pound each of salt and alum in two gallons of hot water and put the skin into a tub sufficiently laige tor it to be covered. Let it soak ior twelve horns and then hang over a pole todiain. 'When well drained, stretch carefully on a boaid to dry, and stretch seveial times while drying. Before it is quite diy, sprinkle on the flesh side one ounce each of finelypulvensed alum and saltpetre, rubbing it in well. Try it the wool be fiun on the skin; if not let it remain a day or two, then rub again with alum. Fold the flesh sides (together, and hang in the shade ior two or three days, turning them over each day till quite dry. Soiape the flesh sides with a blunt knife and then rub with pumice or rotten stone.
Mrs N. would like recipe for vegetable marrow jam. The same lady sends a useful hint on covering preserves. The method is very simple and we have no doubt many ot our lady readers will be glad of the information. She says preserves may be effectively covered by paper dipped in boiling imlk. The paper while wet is put o\ er the mouth of the jar. The milk renders the paper air- tight, and makes it adhere to the jar, thus saving the trouble of pasting or tying it on.
Mary wants to know how to c^an enamelled saucepans when discoloured.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 41, 4 March 1899, Page 2
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363Household Help Column. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 41, 4 March 1899, Page 2
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