HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 13, 4 October 1935, Page 57

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

LITTLE olive oil-brushed over the fresh pork rind before it is cookwill ensure a good-"erackling." HABBY, dark leather will look like new if rubbed over with either lLinSeed oil or the wéll-beaten white of an egg mixed with a little black Indian ink. Polish with a soft duster until quite dry and glossy. HEN you are tired of corned meat, mince it with any left-over vegetables, add a teaspoon of tomato sauce, -and grated nutmeg to taste, warm in the frying-pan, and serve on toast for breakfast, HEN making cutlets, croquettes, rissoles, etc., that need eggs and readcrumbs, beat about 3-teaspoon of aking powder into the egg just as you are about to use it. The egg becomes thick and foamy, holds more crumbs, and browns better in the cooking.

EHP two large -haricot or butter beans in your kitchen dredger, You Will then nevér need to clear the holes with a skewer. A DRAUGHT from under a door is very unpleasant, and the following is an excellent preventive. Measure the width of your door. Out a piece of strong: material about 6in. wide and your door width in leigth. Sew on machine lengtbh-wise, also one end, and turn on right side. Fill this with kapok, old woo] or old silk stockings, and sew up end. Attach to bottom of dvor with ‘tacks, You will find this keeps: the room cosy and the door opens and closes without difficulty. HXT time you have a chicken for Sunday’s dinner, try stuffing it with the following mixture: Chop a small onion and fry it in butter. Then sprinkle in enough coarse oatmeal to absorb the fat, Add the chopped cooked chicken livers, some chopped parsley, two chopped rashers of bacon and an egg (if liked). Instead of roasting the chicken in the oven, try frying it .all over and then cooking it very slowly in a thick saucepan with a little stock.

J[SSTEAD of using a knife, use scissors for cutting tripe, pastry, dates, parsley, lemon peel, etc. ‘There are many other uses for scissors in the kitchen. Buy a black steel pair such as hairdressers use. BLACKENING tan’ shoes is quite a problem as a rule, as the tan invariably shows: through the black. The following’ method is reliable and never fails to be successful. Wring out a cloth in warm water in which a small piece of washing soda has been dissolved and rub over the shoes. Tet it dry and then apply black shoe polish as- you would to black shoes. © make this handy coat for working > in, ‘take two sugar-bags, or any similar material. Cut out coat required size and make up. Cut out cape for shoulders. Bind neck and armholes of jacket and neck of cape with soft material. To make it waterproof, take 14 pints of linseed oil, 402, sugar of lead, and 202. white resin. Grind sugar of lead with a little of the oil, then add other ingrédients and stir well to gether over the fire. Apply mixture to coat and cape while hot. When dry, stitch eape to coat, and make buttonholes and sew on buttons down front of coat, This coat is waterproof even in the. heaviest rains.