The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-15
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly BY Consumers
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, D. c.
CARE MAKES CLOTHING LAST

CAKE MAKES CLOIHING LAST
Here are some suggestions on TAX
ing care of your clothes so they'll last
longer, from home economists of the
U. S. Department Of Agriculture.
First, know what fabric the gar
ment is made from-how much it's
likely to shrink and what special fin
ishes, if any, have been applied to it.
How you clean it, press it, remove
spots from it, are determined by that
knowledge Labels should tell you; if
they don't, find out as much as you
can from the clerk from whom you
buy.
If the fabrics wool, use extreme
care when you wash it. Wrong wash
ing will ruin a good piece of wool.
Here's the right way. Use soft, warm
water, mild soap. Squeeze the suds
through the fabric. Don't rub. Be
sure the rinsing water is the same
temperature as the washing water. A
/ change in temperature may cause
shrinking or make the wool hard and
boardy. Dry woolens in warm place
but not near fire or in the sun.
Stretch knitted garments into shape
and dry flat. Press other wool clothes
while they are still damp with me-
dunn iron and pressing cloth.
Rayons need careful handling, too.
Some you can't wash. For washable
rayons, use heavy, lukewarm suds of
mild soap and don't rub. Again rinse
in water of the same temperature as
you used to wash. Use only moder-
ately warm iron on rayons; if the
rayon is the kind called "acetate" be
extra careful about your iron tenn
perature as too hot an iron will melt
this type of rayon away.
Cottons should be colorfast to
washing and to sunlight and should
be guaranteed not to shrink more than
two per cent if they're to give good
service. Read the labels for this in
| formation.
If you have cottons that aren't col
| orfast to washing, handle them as
quickly as you can in the laundry.
Wash in warm water, never soak
them, dry them quickly. Don't wash
such cottons in the same water with
other clothes as they're likely to
bleed.
incidentally, textile experts say
there is nothing to the old idea that
soaking cottons in a salt water solu
ton will set the color. 1t just doesn't
work.
AS last suggestion, learn to mend,
patch and darn skillfully. Save scraps
Of material left over when you make
clothes at home or have ready -mades
altered. They will make patches or
can be raveled out to give the thread
for invisible repair work.
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USES FOR SOUR CREAM
Never throw away sour cream. Its
! food value is the same as that of
sweet cream and it has dozens of
uses. 1t makes delicious gravies, salad
dressings, topping for soups when
whipped. 1t can be substituted for
sweet milk in quick breads, cakes or
cookies. Because one cup of heavy
sour cream is about 40 per cent fat
Chats about six tablespoons of fat,
it can take the place Of part or all Of
the fat in recipes for waffles, mullins,
biscuits, cake and cookies as well as
the place of the milk. In batters that
require a good deal of liquid the
heavy sour cream may contain more
fat than the recipe calls for, make the
bread or cake richer. If the sour
cream is rather thin, it may be used
as you'd use rich sour milk. When
you bake with sour cream, use soda
alone or with baking powder for
leavening. Half teaspoon of soda to
each cup of sour cream is right. And
put the soda in with the flour and
other dry ingredients instead of add
ing it to the sour cream. If you want
some recipes for using sour cream,
write for Leaflet 213, "Sour Cream"
published by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, d. c. It's
free to anyone who asks for it.
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