[To Prevent Cake from Sticking to Tins after baking,] first grease the tins and then dust them with flour. Lightly beat out the loose flour, leaving only that which sticks to the grease. This does away with the old-fashioned method of lining the pans with greased paper.
[!-- Page: 7 --] [To Peel Apples Easily]—Pour boiling water over the cooking apples and they will be much easier to peel. This will be found a considerable saving of time when busy.
[When Bread is Too Brown]—When bread is baked in too hot an oven and the outside crust gets too brown, do not attempt to cut it off, but as soon as the bread gets cold rub it over with a coarse tin grater and remove all the dark-brown crust.
[Mustard for Removing Odors from the Hands]—Ground mustard is excellent for cleaning the hands after handling onions and other things with disagreeable odors.
[Economy in Use of Candles]—A candle which has burned too low to remain in the candlestick can be used to the very end if removed from the stick and placed on a penny or other small, flat piece of metal.
[To Get Rid of Spiders]—A good way to rid the house of spiders is to take pieces of cotton wool, saturate them with oil of pennyroyal and place them in their haunts.
[To Rid the Kitchen of Flies]—Take a cup of vinegar and place it on the stove where it will simmer enough to make an odor.
[To Clear Beetles Out of Cupboards] and larders, sprinkle a little benzine over the boards. This method will kill the eggs as well as the insects.
[To Drive Cockroaches Away]—Powdered gum camphor will drive cockroaches away if sprinkled about their haunts.
[To Remove Egg Stains from Silver]—Egg stains can be removed from silver by rubbing it with table salt on a wet rag.