Cleaning and baking tips from old homemaking guide
A home care excerpt explains dusting hardwood floors with a dark canton flannel bag on a broom for polish and discusses washing brooms and cloths, plus storing cleaning tools. It also details a traditional method for making regulation English muffins using yeast, flour, and griddle cooking with gradual heating and long rise.
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Mary Graham
To Preserve Cut Flowers In Water Or Sand
A brief on keeping cut flowers fresh longer in different setups. Spray with water under a bell glass to prolong life. Seal wax at the end of stems helps buttons or hair sprays stay fresh. Violets and primroses last weeks in sand moist. foxgloves and campanulas last longer in water with lower leaves submerged. Ferns should keep fronds in water as stems alone provide no nourishment.
A Way to Warm Up Cold Mutton Recipe
A step by step method to reheat cold mutton by cooking minced onion in butter, adding flour and gravy, then seasoning with cayenne salt sugar vinegar Worcester sauce gherkins capers and mushrooms before simmering sliced lean mutton and serving.
Attachment of matchboxes to gas fixtures for easy use
Matchboxes often vanish from mantels or pockets as maids borrow them to light fires and forget to return. A simple remedy is to attach a string of satin ribbon to the matchbox case and suspend it from the gas bracket or mantel. The box slides in and out without disturbing the suspender.
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