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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 14, 1940.

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.

NECIPES always call for level measurements unless "heaping" is specified.

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A BALAD made with eggs, fish, meat, chicken, vegetabice or olher substantial foods calls for a heavy dressing such as mayol- naise.

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

A litle flour added to the fat in wilch eggs are to be fried, will keep them from popping and scattering

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A LITTLE vinegar 'added to the last rinse in laundering in- gerie or Josiery is sald to add

strength to the materials.

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SAGGING seats of caned choirai

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variety of meshes, for straining orange jufer, tea and vegetables.

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WHEN ́sewing large pieces of work, such as sheets, table-cloths, and blankets, an excellent method of keeping the collon handy is to use Jarge 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 thrend as desired without the cotton eliher falling on the floor or else being in an inconvenient place owing to the size of the work.

USE a drop of glycerina in the works when you "oll" the mincing machine. Ordinary oll cannot be used because it right_laint the food, but glycerine won't do any harm.

SHOULD the crown of 凸 bat

much better.

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 soapy water. Use plenty of the original silk inside binding, as it water, both for washing and rinsing, will them fit The seats should be thoroughly soak- ed, and in drying they tighten up into shape again.

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LACE curtains may be washed in the washing machine, with safely if enclosed in a plilow

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If the leather binding of a books in shabby or han mildew on It, rub with

a soft cloth dipped in olt of Invender, and when dry polish with A soft duster.

CORK table-muts can be quickly cleaned 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 tap before drying. goodness if this method is followed:--

Cover the meat with hot mashed SLIGHTLY warm newly-purchased potatoes, dipping the knife in hot tea in the oven before putting it into and making the covering the caddy, and its flavour will be smooth, brush over with beaten egu, much improved.

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or dredge with raspings, and place. in a fairly hot oven until thoroughly heited and browned. Serve with the usual sauce.

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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 scrumbled CEES, add. one level teaspoon of baking pow- der for every six eggs used just be- fore cooking,

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YOU will get few ELOKO months of wear out of * worn

off, lopsided broom by soaking По

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RUBBER bands wound around rach end of a clothes hanger will keep blouses and dresses of filmy textures from slipping off.

A PIECE bag made of mos- quito netting or from an old Is curtain will save you the trouble of emptying the entire contents, as the plecs you want will be soen from the outside,

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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.

THE perfect topping for well-Steamed Bread Pudding buttered pancakes or waffles mixture of brown sugar, cloves and cinnamon.

Have 2 breakfastcupa soaked bread, 3 tablespoons chopped suet, 2 table. spoons syrup, I dessertspoen cocon, 1

teacup cleaned sultanas or currants,

# in hot water for about

IF you like vegetable combinations, minutes and then trimming the straw evenly with a

fry cooking celery with tomatoes, add ] 1 egg. pair of shears.

half a small onion, finely chopped, and season to taste.

IF YOU own an electric cooker, never try to remove stains from the aluminum with a fork or knife, as you may cut through the metal,) Apply a little scouring powder, or steel wool. Or boil a little elder vinegar in the cooker,-

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

A HOUSEWIFE greases her hands well before using washing soda or a solution containing lys. LINENS should be kept in à closet that is dry but not too hot. No matter how Immaculate a "Unen closet may be," it is good to use old sheets to cover linen shelves.

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

Summer Catering

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evening

THREE styles gowns to suit every taste. Left to right: An Ice-bluo satin

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kowa

allm-fitting fines; a particularly 'smart evening gown complete with Tittle bolero. Note the

on train effect the gown; the third gown is only suitable for tall slim figures. The gown. fits tightly to the figuro.

Coffee Cake Muffins

Cream, 1 tablespoons shortening with cup sugar: Beat 2 egg yolks; add. Mix and slit 1% cups flour, COLD meat is popular with well- mande salads in warm summer.

teaspoon nutmeg. 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, wea-2 teaspoons ther. It possible, avoid cutting an alternately with cup milk to first baking powder; add slices off the hot joint, since valuable the cold meat loses Ravour julees escape when this is done, and mixture. Pour into greased muffin

and pans. Combine 34 cup flour; nourishment.

brown sugar, 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon. Add 1⁄2 cup melted butter or marga- During the summer, loaves of breadrine; mix until crumbly. Sprinide will keep fresher If they are wrappedcrumbs on top of mun batter. Bake up separately in greaseproof paper and in hoi oven (400 degrees F) 20 laid on an airy shelfn lathe shelf minutes. Serve hot. Makes 18. for preference.

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When making pastry in hot wearefrigerator. We generally think of souffles asther, choose the carly morning

Add a few drops luxury dishes, but this one, though de- late evening If possible. See

or lemon juice, little less water than that stated in the directions, and put the LIGHTLY waxed woodwork cuts lielous, is not extravagant. down cleaning. Rub spots that are

the water is quite cold, keep Take 2 teacups breadcrumbs. Place windows and doors wide open in the mould in a bowl of cold salted water A TEASPOON of salt added to the around doorknobs and windows and add to it 1 breakfast cup milk.

handled often-banisters, the nrens1 tablespoon margarine in lined pan, kitchen, and draw the blinds if there 1a a draughty place. water when boiling potatoes will with a thin coat of floor wax. This keep the skins from breaking.

forms a protective coating, making it (very easy to wipe oft Anger marks.

WALLPAPER should be dusted periodically with a broom wrapped in a clean, dry cloth.

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

DID you know that one exK will do the work of a half- teaspoon baking powder in a CILI O'Z

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Heat it, then pour in the bread- crumbs, 2 tablespoons currants, and sugar to sweeten. Cook 6 minutes; then fold in beuten white lightly. cool; then add yolk of egg. Mix-well,

Currant Shortcake

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

Filling: ozs currants, table- spoon moist sugar, teaspooni mixed

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TO remove old grass stains, rub spice. with molasses and allow to stand for Cake-mixture:-2 teacups flour, 1⁄2 several days before washing. Fresh teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon rass stains may generally be remov-caster sugar, pinch salt, 4 oza

ed by sonking in alcoliol.

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

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

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garine, cold water.

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

Mix the currants with the sugar and spleo, spread them over one round, of pastry, and distribute the mar- 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 tasten corks tightly in bottles, Place on a floured baking tray, make ball the corks for five minutes to a few holes in cake 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.

Marmalade Scones

EATEN directly, or a few hours

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Devil's Food Cake

after they are mada matumaindo Add 1 cup of water slowly to 1 scones need no additional fat Rub package devil's food mix; stir until iwo ounces of, margarine Into eight smooth. Pour into two 8-inch greas dunces of dour, a teaspoonful of led layer cake pans, Bake in mo- feream of tartar, and half 0 tea-derate oven (350 degrees F.) 20 to [spoonful of baking soda.

25 minutes. Prepare seven-minute Add a tablespoonful of marmalade frosting. To frosting add cup and enough milk to make Boft 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, loven...

Decorate with chocolate almonds, “.

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Is any sun. A glass bottle is cooler rolling out pastry in hot weather.

ordinary rolling-pin for Jellies take longer to set In the summer unless they can be put in a

Junkets, on the other hand, requiro a warm, sheltered spot to set in. If they are required quite cold, they can be pul in cold water or the refrigera- tor after they have set.

"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 results... Tell me, what ought I to do??

The smallest cut or scratch is enough for the germs of blood-poisoning to eriter. 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 human tissues, non-poisonous and non-staining to the skin- yet deals to germs. Your chemist has 'Bettol.''

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