Hints for the Housewife

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 48, 12 June 1931, Page 47

Hints for the Housewife

Your Mincing Machine. OW many people make full use of their mincing machine? As a rule, there are two or three cutters, which means you can mince, pulp or chop. Secondly, the machine will grate nuts or baked crusts just as well as meat. Thirdly, if you buy sausage "casings" or skins, you can make your: Own sausages. Home-made ones are. SO. much better than the bought kinds. _ Home-made Smelling Salts, ~ IT T is quite easy to make, smelling salts. All that is needed is some pounded sal-ammoniac and unslaked lime (equal quantities of each). Put these two. ingredients into a smelling salts bottle and sprinkle over them some oil of lavender. Stopper lightly. Novel Funnel, 1 a liquid is yery objectionable such as paraffin, and there is only the gravy funnel to use when you want to pour some into a bottle, take an empty eggshell and bore a hole in the bottom, Getting the "Newness" Of. N2w carpets and rugs "shed" wool when they are newly in use. There is no need for alarm. This always happens for three or fgur weeks, consequently, for that time, they should only be gently swept with a brush-the way of the pile. For Winter Salads. "THE following raw vegetables may be added to winter salad dishes: Shredded cabbage, grated carrot and minced onions. If mixed in with other salads in season and dressed in the ordinary way they’ are both appetising and good for the blood,

_ Loose Scissors. ; 'HH blades of scissors which have been in use some time often become loose and make cutting difficult. This ig due to the rivet wearing loose through constant friction. To tighten them make a poker red-hot and hold it on the rivet for a few minutes. This will expand the metal and tighten up the blades. Worth Knowing. Tt prunes are cut slightly before soaking they will not require to soak so’ long, and they will cook quickly. ~ To stop cabbage from boiling over, grease the inside of the saucepan at the top, about an inch down. New brushes will last longer and the bristles will not come out if they are soaked overnight in a bucket of water. . Discoloured Glass. TAINS inside glass flower vases or bowls ruin their decorative &- fect. They are often caused by hard water, in which event they may be removed by putting a little chloride of lime into each vase and adding enough water to cover the stains.. Shake the vase, and then leave it standing for about ten minutes, afterwards pouring away the water and rinsing the vase in warm water, If the stains are longstanding or very stubborn repeat the process. For Card Lovers, OST small tables can be quickly and temporarily converted into a cardtable in the following way. Get a piece of green baize of the required size (allowing two or three inches for hemming all round), turn up the hem and then thread @ piece of elastic through it. This cover can be pulled over the table whenever required,