The “Scrap Book.”

To keep cakes fresh for some time, put a piece of bread in your cake tin. The bread must be removed at intervals and fresh substituted.

Some cooks use stale breadcrumbs for thickening stews, etc., instead of flour and water. It makes a nice change. A wooden spoon is best for rubbing ingredients through a sieve.

Ammonia will remove grease stains from white goods.

An old-fashioned cure for sleeplessness.—Put the feet in warm water and add a little more hot water every few minutes for half an hour. Take a towel (folded about four inches wide and a foot long) and wring out of cold water, and apply to top of spine, changing when warm.

Rattling doors can be stopped by glueing a piece of cork in the door frame or on the door near the handle. Paint the cork in the same colour as the surrounding woodwork and it will not be noticed.

To keep potatoes white, add a few drops of lemon juice to the water when boiling.

Always have a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in your medicine chest, as it is useful for gargling, applying to cuts, and abrasions, etc.

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