HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3699, 7 December 1912, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To keep meat fresh wash with weak vinegar. and water and spread over with small pieces of raw onion. This will keep meat fresh in the hottest weather. Before cooking remove the onion anti wash in clear cold water.

Instead of always using eggs for binding puddings and cakes, try one tablespoonful of golden syrup mixed in half a pint of milk, warming it in order to blend the ingredients of the 2>udding or cake perfectly. This quantity equals four eg go in binding properties. The sugar used with the liquid should be less than with ordinary eggs and milk. * * •

When using white hearthstone or red ochre for steps, hearts, window sills, etc., instead of using plain water, use thin fit a roll, which may be saved over after being used on washing day. This causes it to stick to the stone, and will not tread off, spot, or bo washed off by the rain, and also keeps clean much longer.

Copper or brass may be cleaned with great success in the following way. Dip a wet, ooapy piece of flannel in powdered Bath brick, and rub well with this. Then polish with a soft, dry cloth, and you will be delighted with the result.

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To clean cretonne, put some clean bran into the oven and leave it until it is quite hot. Then take some in the palm of the hand and rub it into the cretonne with a circular movement. Keep using fresh bran until the whole chair lias been thoroughly gone over, and you will be delighted with the result.

Never darn fine wool undergarments with wool. It will shrink and pull out a hole larger than the original one. For darning underwear use loosely-twisted knitting silk. Darn very loosely, and when washed the new texture has almost the same thickness as the knitted goods.

If you have no time to let the soup stand till cold to remove the fat, a quick way of removing it when the soup is hot is to pour it through a clean cloth, which has been thoroughly soaked in cold water. The fat will remain in the cloth, and the soup will be as clear as if it had been removed when cold.

The color of almost any washing material may be set by soaking -c in water to which a spoonful of ox-gall has been added to each gallon of water.

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Before making up hew flannel plunge it in very hot water with a tablespoonful of borax, hang it in the air to dry without wringing. Flannel done in this way never shrinks afterwards.

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Silver in daily use may be kept very bright if allowed to soak in strong borax water for four or five hours occasionally. The water should be perfectly boiling when it is poured over the plate

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When enamel becomes discolored scour it with a damp flannel dipped in garden mould, then rinse in plenty of warm water. This treatment will remove all the strains without scratching the enamel. * * *

When ironing keep a hoard sprinkled with bathbrick close to the ironingtable, and rub the irons on the board and dust them with an old but clean rag before using them. * * *

If a baking-dish gets burnt in the using it should not be scraped. Simply place a little water and ashes in it, and the burnt surface will come off easily without injuring the dish. * * *

When the household bread gets too stale to use. try this. Place a pan of water on the stove and bring it to the boil, put on the steamer, and in it place the stale loaf. Steam for five minutes. The bread will then be as fresh as when new..

Chopped Parsley for Garnishing.— First chop the parsley very finely, then screw if up in the corner of a clean cloth, hold it for a few seconds under the cold water tap, and squeeze it as tightly as possible. Then shake it out of the cloth, and it will fall like a green powder. Unless it is done in this way. the parsley will he clogged together in little lumps.