Making Office Paste
Dear Aunt Daisy,-Could you give me a recipe for making a good office paste? I use a great deal of this, and find that the bought pastes come rather expensive.-‘ Joy," (Hawke’s Bay). Here are one or two recipes for paste, Did you know that paste-making is considered rather a "sticky problem"? There are quite fierce arguments over the keeping properties of home-made paste. Paste No. 1: One dessertspoon of cornflour mixed to a cream-like paste with cold water. Add one teaspoon of peroxide of hydrogen. When well mixed, add boiling water, stirring briskly. These quantities should make a teacupful of an efficient paste which will stay sweet and good until the last. Everlasting Paste: Melt one ounce of alum in a quart of warm water; allow to cool, then add as much flour as will make a thick cream, Stir im half. a teaspoon of powdered resin and two or three drops of oil of cloves. Boil, stirring constantly; keep in glass or china jars, covered, in a cool place. Cheap Paste to Keep: Put in a basin one tablespoon of plain flour, sugar and starch, and one teaspoon of powdered alum. Mix to a smooth paste with a little cold water, and when free from lumps pour on sufficient boiling water to make the paste thick and semitransparent. Be sure that the water is boiling, and stir continuously, as when making starch. Keep in screw top jars.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 45
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242Making Office Paste New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 45
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