The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-06-24
Notes and
Comment
OF Interest to Women Readers
For the Housewife.

An excellent substitute for cloth In
window washing is an old newspaper
or chamois skin, which should be
wrung from the water and passed
rapidly over the glasses.
If the house is infested with ants,
dip a sponge into sweetened water
and lay it where they can get at it.
| They will soon cluster upon it and the
sponge can then be dropped In hot
water.
If a cake sticks to the pan, turn
the pan upside down and lay on the
bottom of it cloth wet with cold
water. After about FIVE minutes the
cake can usually be removed quite
easily.
A simple method to soften hard
water is to boil it for quarter Of an
hour, pour it into an earthen jug, add
a quarter of an ounce of common soda
to each two gallons, stir, and when
cold carefully pour off the clear wat
/ er.
Almost every one has the expert
ence, when filling and icing layer
cake, of the layers slipping and slid
ing, thereby causing an unattractive
looking cake when dry. If you will
stick two or even three Of the skew
, ers used by butchers down through
the layers they win hold the cake In
I place until set.
II your vegetables or preserves
scorch while cooking, advises a cook,
remove the vessel instantly from the
range and set 1t in pan of cold wat
er, letting 1t remain there for ten or
fifteen minutes. At the end of that
time you will find that the scorched
taste has all vanished from the food.
When cooking cabbage, turnips, or
onions boil at the same time some wins
egar with few spices, This will de.
stroy all vegetable odor. When boil
ing a ham leave 1t In the water in
which it has been boiled until 1t IS
quite cold. This will make 1t juicy
and quite tender.
JonQuils and daffodils are placed to
advantage in brass or copper urn or
vase.
Stale macaroons, which can be
bought cheap at the bakers, maks
the fastest addition te pudding and
custards IL pulyerized and spripkled
over the top
II is a good plan to keep the oven
door open part Of the time when net
In use, SO that all traces Of gas or
doors of food may escape,
When apples have to be cored buA
served whole. 1t Is advisable to core
before peeling them, as they are then
less liable TO break.
Shohld you spill hot rat on the floorj
or wooden table, pour cold water
upon it at once. It can then be more
easily scraped off, not having had
time to sink into the wood
Folding coat hangers that fit IN
fiat leather case are useful for the
traveller, for whom also are designed
equally flat cases that contain folding
Pullman slippers OF soft leather.
Instead Of always folding table
cloths and sheets lengthways. it is an
excellent plan to sometimes fold them
the other way so that the folds viii
be changed.
Jam which has been laid aside lons
and has got hard and sugary and UNI
fit for use can be made quite as good
as when new If it is put into the ov
en- for a little while till the sugar
melts and then left to cool.
II wainuts or any other kind Of nuts
are packed in layers of sand and kept
in a cool place they will keep fresh
for an indefinite period. Soak them
in warm water for an hour before us
ing II you would have them peel as
If they had just been gathered fresh
from Tho fraa