Hints for the Housewife

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 19, 18 November 1932, Unnumbered Page

Hints for the Housewife

Wl FF NS 8 ESV RIED SSE SS LACK CURRANT tea makes a good bedtime drink when colds are prevalent. Simmer together for a few minutes a. heaped tublespoonful of black currant jam, about # pint hot water, afew knobs of loaf sugar (if required) and the juice and yellow part of the rind of half a lemon. Strain and drink while very hot. & ti me RAZIL nuts can be removed whole from their shells if they are first boileg for a few minutes. % Q 2 LADDERS in stockings are perniunently prevented from running, eyen while being laundered, by the application of a little good quality liquid nail varnish. * & & [fF your honey has become clouded and sugary its liquid state can be recovered by the application of heat. Put the jar containing the honey in a not too-hot oven-or it may staud on the top of it if its construction will permit. Leave it until the cloudiness has disappeared (the process begins at the top and works downward). The time taken by the clearing process varies according to the heat of the oven and the state of the sugared honey, buf an hour and wu half is usually sufficient.

PEARr. buttons are less likely to break when put through the mangle If a cloth is first rolled round one of the rollers. ES & % A THA cosy lined with chamois leather will keep the contents of the pot much hotter than one with an ordinury lining. Cut the leather to the shape of the cosy and just tack it lightly in position at the lower edges, so that it is easily removed for washing when required. te ; a bd h OPS that are regularly used for polishing floor boards and linoleum become very greasy and dirty in a short time, and then do not polish so well. They should be thoroughly cleaned every third or fourth week by soaking in a bucket of hot, soapy water, to which three or four tablespoonfuls of kerosene oil have been added. . « OLLARS of coats and dresses usually get greasy before the garmeut itself is ut all soiled. To remove the grease sprinkle the collar well with powdered French chalk, leave this on for 24 hours at least, then shake and brush off, when all the grease should have disappeared. If it has not, apply the clalk a secoud time.