Hints for the Housewife

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 7, 26 August 1932, Unnumbered Page

Hints for the Housewife

Black silk garments which are beginning to look shabby may be renovated by sponging with clear strong coffee and ironing on the wrong side. bd % ™ Coffee stains can be renoved from delicate materials by brushing over the spot with pure glycerinc. Rinse in lukewarm aater, and press on the wrong side, & Es % Glass bottles or jugs that have hecome stained can be cleaned with thin slices of raw potato soaked in vinegar. These can be kept and used indefinitely. * Ed Rog sandwiches are considerably improved if the yolk is separated from the white and mashed avith curry powder. Spread this over the buttered bread, and then add the white of the egg, chopped small. = os R Cheese wafers make a popular sayoury. Grate half a_ teacupful of cheese and add a little made mustard, sugar and salt, and a dash of cayenne. Make into a paste with cream or milk and spread thickly on unsweetened wafers. Put into the oven for about fifteen minutes. Serve very hot. Bs = Smoked cod’s roe, mashed with lemon juice.and pepper, makes unisually delicious sandwiches. It reqwires

no further cooking, and will keep for several days. g * 2 Bay leaves should always be kept in the store cupboard,:as they make a pleasant flavouring for milk puddings, custards and sauces, as well as for meat puddings and pies, The leaves will keep their flavour for a considerable period if after being picked they are well wiped, dried in a warm place and stored in an airtight jar. bid 2 v Oiled paper for the kitchen, greaseproof and acaterproof, can be made at home. Take some sheets of strong white paper and brush them over on both sides with boiled linseed oil. Hang the sheets up till thoroughly dry. * Ld o Leather gloves which are stained With grease should be rubbed with toasted bread or with a mixture of fuller’s earth aud powdered alum. * * * Alum and phosphate of ammonia (31b. of each) dissolved in a gallon or less of water, can be used for rendering children’s clothes practically uninflammable. The clothes should be well steeped in the solution after every wash, and hung up to dry without wringing, as it is the salts left in the fabric that prevent its’ bursting into flames,