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A slice of raw potato will remove dirty marks from a raincoat and
mud-stains from dress skirts, children's coats and men's trousers.
Paint the inside of your linen closet deep blue to keep the linens
from turning yellow.
When vegetables boil dry and scorch, take lid off and set pan
immediately into a pan of cold water. Unless burned too badly, there
will be no scorched taste.
When there are grease spots on the rug, rub with baking soda. Let
stand half an hour. Then run vacuum cleaner over the spot. It will
disappear at once and no harm to the rug. To remove scorched places
from flannel, take an onion, cut in half, and rub the cut surface
onto the scorched spot.
In order to make cream which has been frozen suitable, for use in
hot coffee, etc., beat it with an egg beater or cream whipper.
Cotton tape stretched across the bedroom or kitchen windows and
fastened with thumb tacks about 6 or 8 inches above the sill will
keep the curtains from blowing against the screens. Tapes may be
washed and put up again.
When cooking noodles, rice or spaghetti, add a piece of butter. This
keeps it from boiling over.
Always keep the oven of the gas range open after,baking until oven
is cool. This will prevent it from rusting.
If your extra flat silver is wrapped in paper and placed in an empty
rolled oats box, it will keep for months without tarnishing.
Instead of using a spoon, or finger nails, to scrape off burnt food,
or food that has hardened on the kettles, a clothes pin will do the
work so much better. A spoon or knife will scratch the kettle, but
the clothes pin will not.
To shrink and set color well in new material, put the material into
a vessel of hot or rather warm water, to which you have added enough
alum to make it taste slightly sour. When cooled, rub lightly, rinse
and hang up. This is much preferable to salt, vinegar, etc.
If plates are heated before pies are put on them the undercrust will
not get soggy. It is the hot pie on a cold plate which produces a
sweat and makes the pie soggy.