HOUSEHOLD REMARKS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2242, 20 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD REMARKS.

If you wish to keep a sharp knife don't put it in hot grease ; stir your potatoes while frying or turn meat with a fork or au old case knife kept for the purpose. Salt extracts the juices of meat in cooking. Steaks ought not, therefore, to be salted until they have been broiled. In order to stop bleeding at the nose one should bathe one's feet in very hot water, drinking at the same time a pint of cayenne pepper tea, or hold both arms above the head. A good remedy for sore throats is to take sixpennyworth chlorate of potassa, disolve and take a teaspoonful every hour, and also gargle with it. Al! sediment cocks in kitchen boilers should be left open at least once a week for the space of fifteen minutes, so as to clean and wash out all foul sediment. Oftentimes when complaint is made that the water smells, or that it don't heat properly, the real cause will be found to arise from this neglect alone. In washing forks, spoons or cups which have been employed in eating eggs, it is best to make an application of cold water with a mop before plunging them into the boiling suds. Hot water cooks the egg and thus renders it more difficult to remove. Common table salt is said to be excellent for removing egg tarnish from silver. A very good cement to fasten on lamp tops, is melted alum. Use as soon as melted, and the lamp is ready for use as the cement is cold.