Hints from a Farmer's Wife
Dear Aunt Daisy, I cannot tell you how much I enjoy listening to your morning . sessioneven if I am in the middle of washing up, and- have to keep drying my hands to write down one of your recipes. I would like to be a "Link in your Daisy Chain," so I am sending a hint or two that might make me qualify. Firstly, a Link asked for a precaution for sun burn. Here is one I have used on my boys since they were small. Get a bottle of olive oil, pour out one third, and fill nearly full of vinegar. Leave enough room to shake it up in the bottle. Smear it on the exposed parts before going in the sun; the skin will never burn, and becomes a deep brown. Secondly, I have found the following recipe a wonderful antidote for snails, slugs, and caterpillars-one part of pepper and three parts of sulphur.
Mix these together im a one pound cocoa tin with holes in the lid, and sprinkle on the vegetables, preferably while they are still. covered with dew. And thirdly, a Link asked why her cream puffs stuck to the tray. If she covers the slide with a sheet of buttered greaseproof paper, the cream puffs un-stick themselves!
"Norsewood"
H.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 135, 23 January 1942, Page 23
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221Hints from a Farmer's Wife New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 135, 23 January 1942, Page 23
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