Another Stained Teapot

New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 33

Another Stained Teapot

Dear Aunt Daisy, I wonder. if you could help me in my little trouble. Our teapot is making the tea taste very strofig and bitter. It is an aluminium one. The trouble was caused I think, during lambing-time, when my husband, being up very early, made tea and used to stand the pot ona hot place on the stove. When I got up, it usually was boiling, but he didn’t seem to realise that it was doing any harm! So how can I clean it please? I am a young housewife with four small children and find your many hints very helpful. I am enclosing a sandwich filling recipe which we like very much. It is very good for picnic lunches, etc.:-

TOMATO AND CHEESE PASTE

Four large tomatoes, skinned and chopped fine, 1 medium onion, chopped fine. Cook together till tender with a piece of butter, salt and pepper to taste, and a little sugar if liked, 2 oz. grated cheese, 2 oz. breadcrumbs (soft) rubbed fine, 1 beaten egg. Add egg to cooked tomato and onion, remove from stove, and add cheese and breadcrumbs. Mix well. Use when cold.

A Young Link

’ Rangiora.

You could try cleaning the teapot inside with a mop dipped in a mixture of vinegar and salt, or lemon-juice and | salt, If the mop won't go in, tie a piece of rag on a stick, or something like that. Also cut up a lemon, put the slices in the pot and fill up with cold water, then stand it in a saucepan of water and heat it, letting it stand some hours. For the spout, you should pack it with salt | and leave it overnight, then scald it thoroughly clean. Thank you for the sandwich filling-very tasty.