Household Hints

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 3, 24 July 1936, Page 57

Household Hints

M ND chamois leather gloves with fine wool instead of colton, This does not tear the leather so easily. AKE one pound of steak and put in a casserole with a little butter, pepper and salt, and let.simmer until the meat is tender. Then run through a mincer and pour the liquid left into the minced meat. Flavour with tomato sauce and mix well. Spread on slices of bread and butter. MAKE some thin flour paste in a bucket and, while boiling hot, mix in torn pieces of newspaper to form u "batter." Now mix in coal dust, a little at a time, until the whole mixture is quite thick. The mixture can be

‘rolled in sawdust to form balls, about the size of orunges, and, when dry, can be used to save coal. ENNIS socklets have a nasty habit of shrinking during the summer mouths. If silk-and-cotton ones do no! cling snugly to the ankles, try cutting off the tops of your woollen socks, anid machine them to the feet of a lisle pair, Fold the woaileu tops down in the usual way, and you cannot see a: join; and the: feet will never shrink. AMAGED picture frames, if they are of ornamental type, can be restored at home by using putty, as it is plastic. By the exercise of a little ingenuity you will find that you can mould it into the shape of the small pieces of ornamentation which have suffered damage. Mould as closely as possible to the desired pattern, allow it to dry thoroughly, regilt the whole frame, and you will be surprised at the extent of. the restoration which you have been able to effect,