Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07
HOUSEKEEPING HINTS :
BY MRS. MAUD e. clLLEx.


Salt and vinegar will clean enameled
wear.
Salt under the baking pan prevents
burning when baking.
1t is unhealthful to eat when fatigued,
worried or angry.
Hot pillows will sometimes serve to
cure a nervous headache.
Melted paraffln is an excellent air.
tight cover for preserves.
Dingy photographs may be cleaned
with bread, rubbed on lightly.
Lemon skins. dipped in whiting, will
clean brasswork excellently.
To remove stains from white goods,
use q mixture of soap and baking soda.
= To prevent olives from becoming
tainted, pour little olive oil over
them.
The addition OF few nuts to the
ordinary lemon jelly will be found
worth while.
A little vinegar in the water In
which fish is boiled will prevent it fall
ing apart.
Sliced pineapples. mixed with orang-
es and sliced cocoanut make an att
tractive summer dessert.
Cucumber peel, scattered around in
the kitchen and left over night will
drive away reaches.
a little lemon juice poured into
drinking water will cause 1t to quench
thirst much better.
Cold drawn linseed oil, rubbed on
with soft cloth, is pest for cleaning
mahogany furniture.
When a soup is poor" try the ad.
dition of grated cheese; it will give it
richness and flavor.
Rapidly boiling water cooks no fastey
than that which barely bubbles, but
only eVaporates faster.
Velvet may be freshened by holding
over steaning kettle and cleaned by
dipping into gasoline.
When cleaning carpet take out
creased spots with gasoline and other
soiled spots with borax water.
Fine sand, rubbed on with a heavy
wet rag, is the best thing for the OUT
side of an iron saucepan.
Cotton crepe stencilled with oil paint
or stencil dye will wash beautifully in
CASTLE soapsuds.
| bag filled loosely with salt anu
heated in the oven is an excellent sub.
stitute for a hot water bag
To keep berries fresh spread them as
much as possible on large. fiat dish,
| and set in a cool, dry place.
SOiled window shades are best cleaned
by rubbing them with stale bread or
fuller's earth. with moderate pressure.
| A corrugated rubber bath mat is an
excellent thing in the tub, as ii wilt
save Slipping and possible dangerous
| falls.
A novel way to serve a melon is to
fill 1t with stiff whipped cream, sea-
soned with salt and paprika and served
| ice cold.
| If washing soda causes enameled
sauce pans to crack, use instead rag
dipped in fine ash or crushed eggshell
for cleaning them.
The life of silk stocking may be
llengthened by running it closely.
| G.,I mi q
cotton before wearing.
| Apply cold water Immediately wher
hot grease is spilled on the wooden
floor, as it will prevent the grease from
soaking into the wood.
Sawdust and coarse salt, mixed in
equal parts. and spread on carpet.
scrubbed in and then swept up, will.
make that carpet look almost like new.
Chloride of lime used freely in the
kitchen and bathroom, will prevent un-
pleasant odors and keep the grease
from accommodating i'm the sink.
To make tea which is to taste just
i right when served, four things are nee
essary: Good tea, boiling water, no,
teapot and never letting 1t boil.
4 A few drops of carbolic acid added tc
the water in which burns, bruises and
cuts are washed will act as disinfect.
ant and greatly lessen the soreness
When washing china silk do not hang
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slightly, in a piece of white goods
Iron without drying and 1t will no
turn yellow.
tasty cracker to serve with SALAD
is made by spreading the thin wafer
) with paste made of butter, wei
creamed and seasoned to taste. Brown
the crackers after spreading them.
Haas Of white erin may be sponget
with soap and water without injury
The crown should be filled with sof
tissue paper while the drying is goinl
on to keep the hat in shape.
The best complexion cream is but.
termik-scveral glasses Of it drunl
every day. Nothing that is smeared OF
the outside of the face will match i
, for clearing and Frightening the skin
When using stale bread for pud
dings, always soak it in a cold liquid
Bread that has been soaked in col,
milk or water is light and crumbly
heavy.
A liver and bacon variation is L
lard slices of liver with thin strips o
bacon and then season we'll with sal
and pepper and thyme. Bake the mca
: in covered pan. basting occasionally
for an hour.
To make sippets which are dainties
, things to be served with boiled egg.
2 cut slices of bread i'm strips half 81
inch wide, the same thickness an
about four inches long. Dip in melte
butter and toast in an oven.
TO purify rancid butter, melt an
skim the butter and put in piece O
we'll toasted bread. In q short time til
bread will have absorbed the offensv
taste and smell, and when the butte
Is chilled it will be found sweet.
For luncheon dishes where variet
is wanted drop AN egg into a peele
tomato which has had the insid
: scooped out. Put the tomato into
, ramekin, season 1T, add butter and
little hot water, and bake until the eg
. is set.
Water spots on silk may very oftel
be removed by sponging with ether
but should first be tried on corne
of the goods, for IL it is the kind o
silk that is chemically weighted, tn
application of any liquid may ruin 4,
Ofentimes the asbestos which ha
become discolorcd in the stove may b.
cleaned with common table salt. Sprin
, lsle little on the mat light the ga
! stove burner and place the mat on tor
The dfscoloration will soon disappear
No tins are more satisfactory TO
baking brown bread than the small
round cans in which baking powde
and cocoa often come. Then one ma,
have dainty sandwiches without TIL
J trouble of trimming the bread rom,