Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-12
RECIPES, ETC.

Sugar Cookies.-Four eggs, two cups
OF sugar, one cup of butter, one teaspoon
full of soda, two of cream tartar.
How to Sweep a Carpet-The right
way to sweep is to incline the handle a
little forward, then give a light drawing
stroke, allowing the broom to scarcely
touch the carpet. Not one-half the weight
OF the broom should be allowed to press
on the carpet, as the dirt is moved for
ward. Let the dirt be moved and rolled
along lightly.
Corn Meal Breakfast Cake. For two
baking-tins, take one and half pints Of
coarsely ground corn meal Add water
nearly boiling, but not enough to wet
quite all the corn meal; add cold water,
little at time, stirring thoroughly be-
tween whites, until you have it SO thin
that it has tendency to settle as YOU pour
it into your pie-tins 1t should not be
more than half an inch deep in the tins,
and it should bake quickly in hot oven
Recipe for Washing Fluid-Take one
pint OF soda ash, one-half pint of lime :;
boil in five quarts Of water until dissolved;
let 1t stand until it settles; pour off; put in
a jug and cork. When ready to wash
soak the clothes over night; wiring out
and to the first boiler of clothes put in
one teacup of this fluid; to each sue
ceeding one, add half a teacupful of fluid
Rub the clothes on the washboard after
boiling; rinse good.
Lemon Cream. - Squeeze a large
lemon and CRATE the peel, add two teacups
and half Of water, and heat it over the
fire. While it is heating, rub two table
spoonfuls of corn starch smooth, and beat
the yelks of three eggs. Stir the lemon
water gradually into the cOrn-starch, add
the egg, and set it on the fire to thicken
gradually, like boiled custard, sweetening
to the taste. After this is done, beat the
whites of the eggs stiff and stir them in !;
then pour into small tumble or lemonade
glasses, and set them in the ice-box to get
very cold.
Berry Pudding Steamed-Fouf cups
flour, one cup sugar, one cup milk, two
eggs, two tablespoons melted butter, one
teaspoontul soda, two teaspoons cream
tartar, one teaspoonful salt Steam one
and half hours Butter the pan, into
which pour the batter. Shut the steamer
very tight, and keep in the steam until
cooked. When rightly done it comes
from the steamer looking like loaf Of
cake Fruit to taste, mixed with the bat
ter before cooking.
-Grease or Scratches.-The best rene
ely for incipient grease is to apply to the
general system or constitutional tendency,
as it is an ascertained fact that horses of a
peculiar idiosyncrasy are the subjects of
so-called scratches. Do not apply sulphur
to the foo. Above all things, keep away
all fats or oils. Give one ounce of sulphur
| and half ounce pulverized charcoal, every
morning for week or so-then a good
| aloetic physic ball Keep from wet or ex-
posure for a while; paint the heel with
pure white lead, and dust on charcoal; get
well into the cracks.
Destroying Ants Nests-Take boil
ing water and pour in their nests, and
when they find you are in earnest, by your
following it up, they will leave, if any are
lett-not killed. | have been successful
by putting a few bricks or flat rocks
| around an infested shrub for the ants to
cluster under, so that I could take my
own time to Kill them in. Then | exam
inc, by turning up the bricks, when | have
plenty of hot water, and can attend tC
| them. The above is far better than p0is
oning the ground, as hot water does no.
injure your plants or the ground about
them.