o one hour.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

When peeling onions, if you will hold the onions under the running cold
water, there will be no discomfort experienced.

Put a thimble over the end of rods and you can easily run it through
your curtains, or an old glove finger will answer the purpose if thimble
is too large.

To mark a hem in linen, remove thread from the machine and run the goods
through the hemmer as though stitching; you will find a perfect hem
turned down.

For removing odor of onions from hands, use celery or powdered celery
seed.

A handful of salt rubbed around sink will help remove all grease and
keep it sweet and clean.

A tiny pinch of soda will sweeten cream slightly soured.

To remove bread or cake from pans, apply wet cloth to bottom of pan.

Tack a piece of asbestos on end of ironing board for iron stand.

Burn a piece of camphor gum to rid house of mosquitoes.

To break glass evenly, tie a string around the glass, saturated with
kerosene, then fill with cold water as high as the string; set fire to
the string, and glass will snap at point of string.

If a silver spoon is placed in a jelly glass the boiling jelly can be
poured in without the least danger of breaking the glass.

To cream butter and sugar easily when butter is hard, warm the sugar
slightly.

For angel, sunshine and all sponge cakes, add the cream of tartar to the
eggs when half beaten, and if soda is called for, add it to the flour.

Lime water and linseed oil is an excellent application for burns.

To caramelize sugar: Put in a smooth granite saucepan or omelet pan,
place over hot part of stove and stir constantly until melted and of the
color of maple syrup. Care must be taken to prevent sugar from adhering
to sides of pan or spoon.

To renovate food chopper and sharpen its knives, grind a piece of sand
soap through it.

Before using new tinware, if you will rub it well with lard and heat it
thoroughly in oven, it will not rust.

To remove paint from window pains, rub with baking soda.

To remove match scratches from painted woodwork, rub with slice of
lemon, then with whiting, and wash with soap and water.

In making pancakes, two tablespoons of snow stirred in quickly is equal
to one egg.

Two apples placed in your cake box will keep the cake moist.

If in cooking you have accidentally put too much salt in anything, a
small amount of brown sugar will counteract it.

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