Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-07-13
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HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD. 4
Z Practical suggestions by Experienced
Cooks and Housekeepers

A piece of charcoal put into the pot
with boiling onions will absorb most
OF the odor.
Somebody has discovered that if
warm water is used to sprinkle starched
clothes they will be stifler.
Table oilcloths or the linoleum on
the kitchen floor can be kept fresh
and cleaner with oil than with soap
and water.
If the cover of fruit jar sticks, do
not attempt to wrench it off; simply
invert the jar and place the top in hot
water for a minute. Then try it, and
you will find it turns easily.
When tomatoes and milk are to be
put together, as in cream soup, have
the tomato juice and milk of the same
temperature, then beat vigorously as
the tomato is added little by little.
When a spoonful of borax is put
into the last water in which white
clothes are rinsed, il has the effect of
whitening them. Before it is added to
the rinsing water the borax should be
dissolved in little hot water.
Pretty rag rugs are made by prepar-
ng the rags as for carpet making
them one color. IS green, red or brown,
and having them wove in the desired
lengths. BY using colored warp
contrast in cOlors may be obtained.
To clean the coffee pot fill it with
water, put in . pinch of borax and a
piece OF hard soap and place on the
stove letting it boil for half an hour.
1t will be bright as new, and should be
submitted to this treatment frequently.
When tins are hard to wash, where
food has been burned on, like baked
fish or oatmeal, put the dish on the
stove filled with cold water and half
teaspoon of baking soda, and let it
boil, and your dish will wash and the
odor of the fish be gone.
If, in making an iron holder, two
thicknesses of brown paper are put be-
tween the material used for the hold.
er, the heat will not then come through
so quickly to the hands. Coarse linen
is better to use for the covering than
wooden material.
Kitchen tables and shelves may be
kept very white and clean if you have
this mixture used for securing them
with. Halt pou nd sand, half pound
lime. Work the dissolved soap into
the dry ingredients. Put the mixture
on with q scrubbing brush, and wash
off with plenty of cold water.
Water, says q culinary authority,
should not be used to haste meat. 1t
toughens it, whereas hot fat makes it
tender. If there 10 not enough fat in
the meat 10 provide material for bast-
ing, heat some fat very hot and baste
the meat; there will then be enough
in the pan for the purpose.
Often when counterpane or table.
cloth is hung on the line it comes
from it with scsllop or large point
on each end, where it has been
stretched along the line. This cannot
be pulled out in ironing. By fulling
the cloth along the line when it is
hung this is avoided and the edges
kept straight.
Unsightly cracks in a kitchen floor
can be filled in with q composition
made as follows: Bring to a boil
three quartz of water, to which has
been added one pound of flour and
one tablespoonful of alum. Stir in
large pieces OF newspaper until the
mixture is thick like putty, aud fill
the cracks with the warm compound.
This is really a homemade papier
mache and hardens equally we'll.