WOMAN AND HER HOME

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 27 January 1928, Page 6

WOMAN AND HER HOME

Dressed Tomatoes. Six medium-sized tomatoes, 1 small cold boiled potato, 4 small cucumber, 1 tablespoon mayonnaise, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, pepper, salt, and vinegar. Cut a round about the size of a shilling from the stem end of the tomato, remove the core without breaking the skin, and sprinkle inside a little salt, pepper, id vinegar. Cut up the potato into small pieces, also the cucumber into thin pieces; mix them together with the parsley, pepper, salt, and mayonnaise, and with these fill the tomato. Smoothe over with a little mayonnaise, and serve on a lace paper or folded napkin-Miss Marion Christian, ZY A. Home-made Cloudy Household Ammonia, Ammonia, one pint: methylated spirit, quarter-pint ; borax, 20z.; powdered castile soap, loz.; hot water, one quart. Dissolve the borax and soap in the water; when cool add the ammonia and spirit; perfume, if desired, by adding a quarter of an ounce each of oil of rosemary and oil of citronelle, ee ew Pee tb Y eee | OY a

| Salad Dressing. For a good ordinary salad cream the following recipe is a reliable one :-l raw yolk of egg, 4 tablespoons oil, cream, or cream and oil together, 1} tablespoous vinegar, + teaspoon made mustard, salt as required. Mix the yolk of egg and mustard, add the oil, cream, and vinegar alternately, and (especially the vinegar) in small quantities, and rub together well betweén each addition, or it will not thicken properly.-Miss Marian Christian, A. Keeping Pianos in Condition. When a piano must be left in a closed house for any length of time, especially near the seaside, there is no better way to preserve it, as I have proved by experience, than to lay newspapers around the wires and over the keys; in fact, wrap the instrument in newspaper in every way possible. Over all place a heavy woollen coverqing. ‘Ihe tuner will find your piano in better condition after the winter in which it had thus been protected. { American Pickle.

To eight quarts of cold water add "Ib. of "salt, 100z, of saltpetre, Uh. ‘dark treacle. Mix all well together and let it stand for 24 hours. It will then be ready to reccive beef, pork, or tongue, This pickle possesses many advaritages; the principal one is that the meat never gets too hard or too salt. It will keep good from two to six months, according to the quantity of meat cured in it. A scum rises which should be skimmed off from time to time. Lincoln Sandwiches. Cut thinly some brown and white bread and spread with butter. Cut cold boiled tongue and gruyere cheese in thin slices. Arrange the tongue on the white bread; over the tongue place the brown bread, over the brown bread the gruyere cheese, then repeat. Put under a weight for several hours. Serve them cut crosswise in thin slices, Tf sandwiches are wrapped in a serviette dipped in hot water and wrung nearly dry they will keep fresh for hours. Hasty-Tasty Soup. Break an egg into a breakfast cup; beat up lightly with a fork, add one teaspoonful of Boyril and fill up with boiling water. Result-a cup of very nourishing and delicions soup, This recipe is the result of war-time experience. A Hair-Washing Hint. When washing hair, put a tablespoonful of vinegar in the rinsing water, This takes all the soap out and improves the colour, and is especially good for very greasy hair, Wow to Shell Brazil Nuts. Place nuts in a moderate oven until warm. If the shells are then cracked, the nuts will come ont whole and the skins can be casily loosened. oe