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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 today, 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 "hepping" speelfed.

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A SALAD made with eggs, fish, meat, chicken, vegetables or other substantial foods calls for a heavy dressing such as mayon- nalso...

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TRY strong tea to remove raw vegetables stains from the fingers.

A little flour added to the fat in which eggs are to be fried, will keep them, from popping and scattering grease.

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A LITTLE vinegar ́added to the last rinse hi laundering lia- gerie or hosiery is said to add strength to the materials,

SAGGING. seats of caned chairs ent be brought back into shape: Turn them upside down and wish, will: senpy water. Use plenty of water, both for washing and rinsing, The seats should be thoroughly soak- ed, and in drying they lighten up into shape again.

LACE curtains may be washed in the washing machine with sfets enclosed

case.

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variety of meshes, for straining orange julee, tea and vegetables. WHEN sewing large pleces of work, such as shecis, table-cloths, and blankets, an excellent method of keeping the cotton handy is to use o large safety-pin, sUp the reel through the pin, and fasten the pin on to the work in hand, near where you arc | sewing.

This enables you to draw a thread as desired without the cotton either falling on the floor or else being in an inconvenient place owing to the size of the work,

USE a drop of glycerine in the warks when you "oll" the mincing machine. Ordinary oll cannot be used bernuse. It might taint the food, bul glycerine won't do any harm.

SHOULD the crown of a hat stretch so that it feels uncomfortable, try substituting a strip of velvet, for the original silk inside binding, as it will them flt_much better,

If the leather binding of a book is shabby or has mildew on it, rub with a soft cloth dipped in all of lavender, and when dry polish with soft duster.

CORK table-muls can be quickly cleaned by first wetting them and

IT IS possible to rébake a joint | rubbing with pumice stone. Rinse without losing any of the essențial | under a tap before drying. goodness if this method is followed:-- Cover the meat with potatoes, dipping the knife In hot water and making the covering smooth, brush over with beaten egg, or dredge with raspings, and place in a fairly hot oven until thoroughly heated and browned. Serve with the ustaal sauce.

ninabed SLIGHTLY warm newly-purchased tea in the oven before putting it into the caddy, and its flavour will be much improved.

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If a deep saucepan is not avaliable 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 teaspoon of baking pow- der for every six eggs used just be- fore cooking.

YOU will

few more get A months of wear out of a worn off, lopsided broom by soaking it in hot water for about Ave mlautes and then trimming the straw evenly with ņ pair of shears.

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RUBBER bands wound around each end of a clothes hanger will keep blouses and dresses of Almy textures from slipping off:

A PIECE. bag made of mos- quito netting or from an old face curtain will save you the trouble of emptying the entire contents, as the plece you want will be seen from the outside.

THE perfect topping for well- buttered pancakes or waffes is n mixture of brown sugar, cloves and cinnamon,

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IF you like vegetable combinations, try cooking celery with tomatoes, add half a small onion, Anely chopped, and season to taste,

A HOUSEWIFE greases her hands well before using washing soda or a solution containing lyc.

IF YOU own an electric cooker, never try to remove stains from the aluminum with a fork or knife, os you may cut through the metal. Apply a little scouring powder, or LINENS should be kept in a closet steel wool. Or boll a little elder that is dry but not too hot. No vineer in the cooker,

A PIECE of-carpet--nailed-to-an oblong piece of board about the size of a blackboard eraser, is excellent to use for painting screens.

A TEASPOON of calt added to the

matter how immaculate a linen sheets to cover linen shelves, closet may be, it is good to use old

LIGHTLY waxed woodwork cuts down cleaning. Rub spots that are handled often-banisters, the areas around doorknobs and windows--

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 14, 1940.

Cookery Recipes

ALL raisins and currants are rich in natural sugar, so they are very helpful in eking out the sugar ration. In addition, these, fruits afford concentrated nourishment in a remarkable degree. Here are a few thrifty recipes the family will enjoy. Steamed Bread Pudding.

Have 2 breakfastcups soaked bread, 3 tablespoons. chopped suet, 2 table- spoons syrup, 1 dessertspoon cocon, 1

teacup cleaned sultanas or currants, 1 cgg.

Soaked the bread for at least an hour in hot water: Sqeeze out the surplus water and whisk with a fork. Add the other dry Ingredients, and stir in the egg beaten with the syrup. Have the mixture fairly stiff, turn into greased basin, and steam steadily 2 hours. Turn out, and serve with custard sauce. Baked Souffle

water when boiling potatoes will with a thin coat of floor wax. The and add to it 1 breakfast cup milk.

keep the skins from breaking,

A WELL-equipped kitchen has airainers of different sizes, in a

THREE styles in evening Egwns to suit every taste, Left to right: An lcc-blue satin

gown от slim-fitting lincs; a particularly smart evening gown complote with Willo bolero. Note the trala effect on the gown; the third gown is only

fall sultable for

silm fzures, The own file lightly to the liguro.

Coffee Cake Muffins

Cream 11 tablespoons shortening

Summer Catering with cup lugar. Bent 2 egg yolks;

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any

2

made salads in warm summer

COLD meat is popular with well-add. Mix and sift 14 cups flour,

teaspoon nutmeg, 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, teaspoons baking powder; add ther. If possible, avoid cutting slices off the hot folnt, since valuable alternately with cup milk to first juices escape when this is done, and pans.. Combine 4 cup flour, cup mixture. Pour into greased muffin

the cold meat loses flavour and nourlahument.

During the summer, loaves of bread will keep fresher if they are wrapped up separately in greaseproof paper and

laid on an airy shelf—a lathe shelf for preference.

brown sugar, 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon, Add 1 cup melted butter or marga- rine; mix until crumbly. Sprinkle

roo crumbs on top of muffin batter. Bake degrees *.) 20

minutes. Serve hot. Makes 18.

When malting pastry-in-hot-wea-refrigerator---Add-a-few- -drops--of We generally think of souffles as

ther, choose the early morning or lemon juice, a little less water than luxury dishes, but this one, though delate evening it possible. Ste licious, is not extravagant.

that stated in the directions, and put the the water is quite cold, keep the mould in a bowl of cold salted walor Take 2 teacups breadcrumbs. Place windows and doors wide open in the in a draughty pinec. tablespoon margarine in lined pan, kitchen, and draw the blinds if there Heat it, then pour in the bread- forms a protective coating, making iterumbs, 2 tablespoons, currants, and very easy to wipe off finger marks.

sugar to sweeten. Cook 5 minutes; cool; then add yolk of egg. Mix well, WALLPAPER should be dusted then fold in beaten white lightly. perlodically with a broom wrapped ¡in a clean, dry cloth,

Currant Shortcake

DID you know that one err will do the work of A half- teaspoon baking powder in a cake?

When you are expecting friends home "on leave," here is a special treat you might give them:

Filling: 4 ozs currants, 1 table-. spoon molst sugar, tenspoon mixed

To remove old grass stains, rub splee..

with molasses and allow to stand for Cake-mixture:--2 teacups flour, several days before washing. Fresh teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon grass stains may generally be remov-jcaster sugar, pinch salt, 4 ozs ed by soaking in alcohol.

WILTED celery can be crisped by placing in a pan of cold water, to which half a lemon is mdded,

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IN selecting summer draperies for a too-sunny room, concentrate on the cool colour, blues, greens and blue- vloists,

garine, cold water.

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Make the shortcake like shortcrust pastry. Divide into 2 equal portions, and roll each into a round about inch thick.

Mix the currants with the sugar; and spice, spread them over one round:

the mar- of pastry, and distribute, garine in small pats on top.

Damp edge of pastry and cover with second round. Press together, and mark edges neatly with A knife. To fasten corks tightly in bottles, Place on a floured baking tray, make boll the corks for five minutes to in few holes in coko with a skewer, soften them and then, while hot, brush top over with milk, and bake In press them into the bottles. When a fairly hot oven for 30-40 minutes. cool, the seal will be perfect.

Serve hot or cold.

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Marmalade Scones Devil's Food Cake

EATEN directly, or a few hours

after they are mado marmalade Add 1 cup of water slowly to 1 scones need no additional fat." Rub package devil's food mix; stir until two ounces of margarine' into eight smooth. Pour into two 6-inch grens- ounces of four, a teaspoonful of led layer cake pans.. Bake in ma~ cream of tartar, and half a tea-iderate oven (350 degrees F.), 20 to spoonful of baking soda.

25 minutes. ‹ Prepste seven-minute

Add a tablespoonful of mammalade frosting. To frosting ndd 4. cụp and enough milk to mako a soft dough, chopped chocolate-covered simonds. 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. oven.

Decorate with chocolate almonds,

is any sun. A glass bottle is cooler Junkets, on the other hand, require than an ordinary rolling-pin for a warm, sheltered spot to set m. If rolling out pastry in hot weather. they are required quite cold, they can Jellies take longer to set in thebe put in cold water or the refrigera- summer unless they can be put in a for after they have set.

Mla---semi-informal-evening- gown can be raade up in may typo of tallable material. Note the -wide leather sash and the turban.

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FROM the kiddies*fashion world. This charming" model--- pictured above is in green linen with white borders. Note the smart cross-stitch embroidery decoration on the bodice,

"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 why of prevent-

ing such awful results... 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 one 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 hurman tissues, non-poisonous and non-staining to the skin- yet death to germs. Your chemist has Bettol.

THE MODERN

DETTOL ANTISEPTIC

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