Uses for Flour Bags

New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 359, 10 May 1946, Page 27

Uses for Flour Bags

Dear Aunt Daisy, Many people ask you how to remove the lettering from flour bags. I never have any bother at all with mine. I spread them out wet on a board, letter side up, and scrub with a fairly stiff nail brush and sandsoap. The colour comes out at once. I then pop them into, the washing machine, and hey presto! they are without a blemish, It only takes a few minutes and really is not drastic and certainly not expensive. At the present time, when tea towels are so expensive, I choose the softest of the bags, open them, hem, and work the two ends in blanket stitch with coloured boiling cotton to match my colour scheme, and thus have a good supply of tea towels for winter use, thus saving my good ones. I have also turned some bags (better quality ones) into aprons for my two girls, letting them choose their own transfer designs as they do the working of them. Smaller bags such as salt or any cereal bags I keep for steaming vegetables in. They are easily washed, and boiled. After washing the vegetables thoroughly I pop them in a bag, clamp ends of bag under ‘the saucepan lid, which keeps the vegetables clear of the contents in saucepan, thus saving fuel and room on electric or gas stove. Cooked thus.I find the vegetables beautifully tender with all their flavour kept in.

New

Brighton

Some people remove obstinate letter- ' ing from the bags by rubbing dripping, or kerosene, into the dampened marks, then rolling up and leaving a few hours before washing in the usual way.