Recipes, Hints and Cures
Notes and Hints
Flies do not like the odor of clover, and a bunch of these blossoms left drying in a aroom will effectively expel them.Out of the large number of women in Constantinople - the population is nearly 1,000,000 - not more than 5,000 can read or write.A good test for the right consistency of jelly when boiling is to let it drop from a spoon. If the last drop sticks to the spoon, it is sufficiently hard.A thin piece of salt pork bound on to a wound caused by stieeping on a nail or carpet tack will remove the inflammation almost immediately, and prevent serious consequences.Sweet herbs, when wanted for drying, should be gather on a fine clear day, the roots cut off. They should be dried in small bunches very quickly by the heat of a stove, rather than by the sun.To clean all kinds of glass bottles, wet some tea leaves with a little warm water and soda; put them into the bottles and shake well until the bottles are clean; rinse in clear water and drain.If, in using sour milk with soda for griddle cakes or muffins, the milk does not foam as it should to produce the desired lightness, a teaspoonful of vinegar added to the milk will give the desired result.To clean sewing machines, cover all the bearings with kerosene oil, work the machine very quickly for a few minutes, then throughly rub all the oil off with a soft rag, and apply machine oil to the parts which need oiling.These Notes and Hints were found on an old 1900s era newspaper clipping.
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