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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
June 14, 1940.
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HELPFUL HINTS FOR YOUR SCRAP-BOOK
HOW often have you read dozens and dozens of household hints and promptly forgotten all about them. Then some day when you want to mend an ornament or take a stain out of some material you cannot remember the valuable hints you had read,
So to-day, in order to assist you, we are publishing many useful household hints. They can easily be cut out and pasted into a "Household Hint Scrapbook." You've no idea how useful it will be. Just try it.
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RECIPES always call for level measurements unless heaping“
pecined.
A BALAD made with eggs, fish, meal; chicken, vegetables
or
olher substantial foods calls for A heavy dressing such as mayon- naise.
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raw
ta remove TRY strong tea vegetables stains from the fingers.
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variety of reshes, for straining orange juice, tea and vegetables.
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WHEN sewing large pieces of work, such as shecis, table-cloths, ond blankets, an excellen! method of keeping the cotton handy is to use a large safety-pin, slip the reel through the pin, and fasten the pin on to the work in hand, near where you are sewing.
This enables you to draw a thread a desired without the cotton either
A tutte four added to the fat intalling on the floor or else being in which eggs are to be frled, will keep an inconvenient place owing to the them from popping and scattering size of the work,
grense,
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A LITTLE vinegar added to the last rinse in laundering in- zerle or hosiery is said to add strengil to the materials.
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USE a drop of glycerine in the the mincing works when you "oll" machine. Ordinary oil cannot be used because it might talnt the food, but glycerine won't do any harm,
of of caned chairs SHOULD the crown sruts can be brought back into shape:stretch so that it feels uncomfortable, Turn them upside down and wash try substituting a strip of velvet for with bapy water. Use plenty of the original silk inside binding, as it water, bath for washing and rinsing. will them fit
much better. The seals should be thoroughly soak-
SAGGING
ed, and in drying they Ughten up into shape again.
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LACE curtains may be washed in the washing machine with
in safety if enclosed
a pillow
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If the leather binding of a book is shabby or has mildew on. it, rub with
a soft cloth dipped in oil of lavender, fand when dry pollsh with "' soft
dluster.
CORK table-mats can be quickly eleaned by first wetting them and
IT IS possible to rebake a joint rubbing with pumice stone. Rinse without losing any of the essential under i jap before drying. goodness if this method is followed:--
Cover the meat with hot mashed SLIGHTLY warm newly-purchased polatoes, dipping the knife in hot tea in the oven before putting it into water and making the covering the enddy, and its flavour
invoth, brush over with beaten ex much improved.
or dredge with raspings, and place
will be
G. G. T.
in a fairly hot oven unili thoroughly heated and browned. Serve with the! RUBBER bands wound umal sauce.
if a deep saucepan is not available for a large pudding, it is possible to improvise one by inverting a slightly Larger saucepan on top of the one in which the pudding is steamed.
FOR lighter scrambled eggs, add one level Leaspoon of balting pow- der for every six eggs used just be-; fore cooking.
YOU will get a few
more bionths of wear out of a worn
off, lopsided broom by soaking
around
each end of a clothes hanger wil | keep blouses-and-dresses-of-filmy- textures from slipping of.
A PIECE bag made of mos- quito netting or from an old face curtain will save you the trouble of emplying the entire contents, as the piece you want will be seen from the outside.
THE perfect topping for well- buttered pancakes or waffles is n mixture of brown sugar, cloves and cinnamon.
it in hot water for about five IF you like vegetable combinations, try wooking celery with tomatoes, add half a small onion, finely chopped, and season to taste,
trinates and then trimming the straw evenly with I pair of shears.
IF YOU own an electric cooker, A HOUSEWIFE greases her never try to remove stains from the
hands well before using washing aluminum with a fork or knife, os) soda or a solution containing lyc. you may cut through the metal. Apply a'ittle scouring powder, or
LINENS should be kept in a closet steel wool. Or boil a little cider that is dry but not too hot. No _vinegar.in_the_cooker.
malter-how-Immaculate-a-linen closel may be, it is good to use old sheets to cover linen shelves,
A PIICE of carpet nailed to oblong plece of board about the size of a blockboard eraser, is excellent to use for pointing screens.
water when bolling potatous
keep the sklus from breaking.
LIGHTLY waxed woodwork cuts down cleaning. Rub spots that are handled often-banisters, the areas
A TEASPOON of salt added to the around dooricnobs and windows- will with a thin coat of floor wax. This forms a protective coating, making it įvery easy to wipe off Anger marks.
WALLPAPER should be dusted periodically with a broom wrapped in a clean, dry cloth.
A WELL-equipped klichen has strainers of different, sizes, in a
This semi-informal evening gown can be made tip in any type 'of suitable material. Note the wide leather sash and tho turkan.
DID you know that onD CRE will do the wark of a half- teaspoon baking powder in a cako?
Cookery Recipes
ALL raisins and currants are rich in natural sugar, so they are very helpful in cking out the sugar ration. In addition, these fruits afford concentrated nourishment-in Here are a few thrifty recipes
a remarkable degree. the family will enjoy. Steamed Bread Pudding
Have 2 breakfastcups soaked brend, 3 tablespoons chopped suel, 2 table- spoons syrup. dessertspoon vocoa, 1 teacup cleaned sultanus or currants,
sex..
Summer Catering
THREE styles In evening gowns to suit every taste, Left Lo right: An Ice-blus satin
gown on "slim-fitting lines; a particularly smart, evening gown complete with littlo bolero. Note the rain effect on tho rown; the third gown is only suitable for tall slim figures. The gown fits tightly to The Bgure.
Coffee Cake Muffins
Cream 11⁄2 tablespoons shortening with cup sugar. Beat 2 egg yolks; add. Mix and sift 1% cups flour, COLD ment is popular with well- teaspoon nutmeg, 1⁄2 teaspoon sult, made salads in warm summer wen-2 teaspoons baking powder;
add ther. If possible, avold cutting any alternately with cup milk to first Soaked the bread for at least an slices off the hot joint, since valuable mixture. Pour into greased mumn Sqeeze out the juices escape when this is done, and pans. Combire eup Bour, cup hour in hot water.
rold surplus water and whisk with a fork, the
meat loses flavour and
brown sugar, 4 teaspoon cinnamon. Add the other dry ingredients, and
nourishment,
Add 1⁄2 cup melted butter or murga- stir in the egg beaten with the syrup.
crumbly. Sprinkle Have the mixture fairly stiff,
During the summer, leaves of breadrine; mix unti into greased basin, and steam steadily will keep fresher if they are wrappedcrumbs on top of muffin batter, Bake 2 hours. Turn out, and serve with up separately in grenseproof puper and in, hot oven (400 degrees
Makes 18. custard sauce.
laid on an airy shelf a lathe shelf minutes. Serve hot. | for preference. "Baised"Soufle
turn
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When making pasiry in hot wea- | refrigerator, Add a Ecw drops of We generally think of souffles us ther, choose the early morning or lemon juice, a little less water than luxury dishes, but this ane, though de-inte evening if possible. See that
stated in the directions, and put the| lielous, is not extravagant.
the water is quite cold, keep the
mould in a bowl of cold salted water Take 2 teacups brenderumbs. Place windows and doors wide open in the
in a draughty place. 1 tablespoon margarine in lined pan. kitchen, and draw the blinds if there and add to it 1 breakfast cup milk. is uny sun. A glass bottle is cooler Heat it, then pour in the bread- than htt ordinary rolling-pin for crumbs. 2 tablespoons currants, and rolling out pastry in hot weather. sugar to sweeten. Cook minutes;
Jellics take longer to set in the cool; then add yolk of egg. Mix well, summer unless they can be put in a then fold in beaten white lightly. Currant Shortcake
When you are expecting friends special home "on leave," here is a treat you might give them:-
Filling: 4 ozs currants, 1 table- spoon moist sugar. 1⁄2 teaspoon mixed
TO remove old grass stains, rub splee.
with molasses and allow to stand for Cuke-mixture:--2 teacups flour, several days before washing. Fresh teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon grass stains may generally be remov-caster sugar, pinch sait, 4 oz. mar-
ed by soaking in alcohol.
WILTED ccléry can be crisped by placing in a pan of cold water to which baif, a lemon is added
IN selecting summer draperies for a tro-unny room; concentrate on the cool colour, blues, greens and blue- violets,
garine, cold water.
Make the shortcake like shorterust, pastry. Divide into 2 equal portions, and roll each Into a 'round about 4 Inch thick.
Mix the curranis with the sugar and spice,-spread them-over-one round luf pastry, and distribute the mar
Karine-In small pats on top,
Damp edge of pastry and cover with second round. Press together, and mark edges neatly with a knife.) Place on a floured baking tray, make
To fasten corks tightly in battles, boll the corks for five minutes to few holes in cake with a skewer, soften them and then, while hot, brush top over with mile, and bake in press them into the bottles. When a fairly hot oven for 30-40 minutes.
Serve hot or cold., cool, the soal will be perfect.
Isabel
Marmalade Scones Devil's Food Cake
marmalade ore "nindo
EATEN directly, or a fow hours after they
Add 1 cup of water slowly to Bootes need no additional fat. Rub package devil's food mix; stir until two bunces of margarine into eight smooth. Pour into two 8-inch greas- ounces of flour, teaspoonful of fed layer cake pans. Bake in 710~ cream of tartar, and half a tea- derate oven (350 degrees F.) 20 to spoonful of baking sodn.
23 minutes. Prepare seven-minute
Add a tablespoonful of marmalade frosting. To frosting add 1⁄2 cup and enough milk to make a soft dough. (chopped chocolate-covered almonds. Roll out, cut into rounds of triangles, Spread between layers. Cover tops and bake for ten minutes in a hot and sides with remaining frosting.
Decorate with chocolate almonds,
Dven.
$1 TIFFINS
at
Jimmy's
Also A ́China Bldg., Hongkong.
la Carte
Hankow Rd., Kowloon.
Junkets, on the other hand, require a warm, sheltered spot to set in. If they are required quite cold, they can be put in cold water or the refrigera- tor after they have set.
FROM the kiddies' fashion world. This charming model pictured above is in green linen with white borders. Note the smart cross-atlich ombroidery decoration on, the bodico.
Tell me, doctor
Are you sure? I can't believe that all this should have started '
with a tiny cut on the finger! There must be some way of prevent
ing such awful resulta... Tell me, what ought I to do?'
The smallest cut or scratch is enough for the germs of blood-poisoning to enter. There is only oue way to prevent their invasion: they must be killed-at once. 'Dettol,' the Modern Antiseptic, can be applied im- mediately. 'Dettol is gentle and tender on kuman tissues, non-poisonous and non-staining to the skin- yet death to germs. Your chemist has "Dettol.
'DETTOL
TRADE MARK
THE MODERN
ANTISEPTIC
DETTOL
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