96 EDITH ADAMS’

12ta ANNUAL PRIZE COOK BOOK

MISCELLANEOUS |

HOME-MADE LAUNDRY SOAP

1 can lye
2% pints water ) :
4 pounds clean grease (free from salt)

To make 8 pounds of soap without boil-
ing, dissolve 1 can lye in 2% pints of water
in a stone or iron vessel. Allow to cool.
(Lye heats water.) Melt 4 pounds clean
grease (free from salt) and set aside until
nearly cool but’ still in liquid form. Now
slowly pour dissolved lye into grease (not
grease into lye), stirring slowly while
the lye is being poured in. Continue stir-
ring until the lye and grease are thor-
oughly. combined (usually about 4 min-
utes) or until the mass appears like honey.
Too much stirring may separate the lye.
Pour into wooden box with a cotton lin-
ing. Cover up well and set aside in a warm
place for 2 days. Turn out and cut into
bars. To wash out salt: Melt grease in
water. Set aside to cool. When cool,
skim off grease.

“Don’t forget to keep lye away from
children while using.”

Mrs. William Towle, 2253 East Fifty-
second Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.

HOME-MADE WALLPAPER
CLEANER

2 cups flour

2 tablespoons salt

2 tablespoons powdered ammonia
2 cups water

2 tablespoons white wine seaiastts
2 tablespoons coal oil

Mix dry ingredients thoroughly. iene
a paste, using the three liquids. Cook
until of the consistency of putty, stirring
constantly. As it gets very thick, cool.
When cold, pich off small pieces and rub
over well, using an up-and-down move-
ment:

“This won’t make new paper out of old,
but it will make a brighter, very clean
room.”

Mrs. H. Meade, Armstrong, B. C.

POTPOURRI JAR

Take 8 ounces dried rose petals, 8
ounces lavender, 1 ounce powdered cloves,
1 ounce coarsely powdered orris root, 1
ounce powdered cinnamon, 1 ounce all-
spice, and 8 onnces salt. Mix rose petals
thoroughly with salt and spices. Put in a
covered jar and stir occasionally. Open
jar when aroma is desired in the room.
These keep for years.

POOR MAN’S GARDEN

6 tablespoons salt

6 tablespoons liquid blueing
6 tablespoons water

1 tablespoon ammonia water

Mix all together and then pour over a
clinker, a piece of coke or a broken brick.
Set in shallow dish. A strange growth
will take place. Dabs of mercurachrome,
red or green ink, orf food coloring may
be added to get a lovely color effect. Make
sure the clinker or brick is dry. Vaseline
rubbed along the edge of the dish will
prevent the growth from going over.

Mrs. Norman Gregory, 3492 Napier
Street, Vancouver, B.C.

YULE LOGS

2 pounds coarse salt

2 pounds bluestone

1 ounce each of other salts for color
2 gallons boiling water

Mix the above together in. a wooden
pail. The salts corrode metal. Roll up old
magazines tightly, and place them in the
solution allowing them to soak for 2
weeks. Remove and let dry on a rack for
1 or 2 months.

Strontium Nitrate red
Bismuth Nitrate crimson
Antimony Chloride blue
Barium Nitrate green
Cobalt purple
Potassium Chloride “purple
Borax cu green

Lithium Chloride purple

DOG CAKE FOR YOUR PETS

2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
2 to 2% cups milk
2% teaspoons baking powder
2 cups white flour
1 to 1% tablespoons cod liver oil
Dog meal (enough to make a stiff
batter)

Put oil into your baking Sieh (This
is to make sure your pan is well greased.)
Pour excess into your batter and mix well.
Make your batter very stiff with dog
meal. Bake in a moderate oven (350
degrees F.) for about 45 minutes or until
it is quite brown and will slide out of
the pan.

“We make this for our pets awa they
(both dogs and cats) love it.”

Miss Hazel Gardner, 1234 Coast. Meri-
dian Road, R.R. 2, White Rock, B.C.

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