Red Pine Food Bins

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 96, 24 April 1941, Page 53

Red Pine Food Bins

Dear Aunt Daisy, I wonder if you could help me through your pages in The Listener with a problem which seems to be rather difficult? Recently I bought a set of kitchen bins, but find I am unable to use them owing to the fact that they are made of red pine, which imparts a musty, woody odour to any flour, sugar or bread kept in them. Could you tell me of anything to deodorise them? I have scrubbed them thoroughly with sandsoap, and soda, and rinsed them well, but with no effect. I should be very grateful if you or any member of the Daisy Chain could

help me.-

Joyce

(Gore).

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| (Continued from previous page) I think your problem is a difficult one, Joyce; the wife of an expert worker in woods tells me that in her husband’s business they find the only thing to do is to line such bins with tin — which could not be very well done at home. Perhaps you could get from a tea-mer-chant or importer the lead linings of some tea-chests, and line your bins with that. Here is another letter on the subject, from Pukekohe: Dear Aunt Daisy, With reference to the lady whose set of bins causes her bread, etc., to smell mouldy, I too, bought such bins. When I noticed the smell I put some lavender flowers in each bin, closed the bins for a few days, then put a layer of paper over the flowers, and put in one bin, flour, in another bread, and in the third, | rolled oats, and they were quite all right.

Pansies

(Pukekohe).

Let us know how you get on, won't you, Joyce?