Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-15
RECIPES, ETC.

Coffee Cake-One cup sugar, one of
molasses, one of butter or lard, one of cold
coffee. two teaspooniuls of soda, one-bali
pound raisins, one-half pound currants, IA
tablespoon cinnamon and nutmeg to taste.
Corn Starch Cake.-Two cups white
sugar, one cup corn s,arcn, one-half cup
butter, one and one-holf cups flour, one
cup sweet milk, one teaspoon cream tar
tar, one-half teaspoon OF soda and the
whites of eight eggs beaten to a stiff froth
Flavor with lemon
Cure for Headache.-Put a handful of
salt into quart Of water, add one ounce of
spirits of hartshorn and half an ounce of
camphOrated spirits OF wine. Put them
quickly into bottle, and cork TIGHT to
prevent the escape Of the spirits Soak a
piece of cloth with the mixture, and apply
it to the head; wet the cloth airesh as soon
as 1t gets heated.
DR. Dio Lewis gives the following
cure for dyspepsia: Have a right good
talk, with a funny anecdote or two, and
half dozen hearty laughs with each meal.
This eating alone at restaurant, and shOv-
cling in the provender in solemn silence,
will give dyspepsia to an ostrich, and
create feeling of dependency in the
stomach OF quartz MILL
Almond Custard Cake-One pound
of sugar, one-half pound butter, cream
well; five eggs, one cup sweet milk, one
teaspoOntul soda, two tablespoonf1ls
cream tartar, one pound flour; flavor with
lemon. Bake in three pans, as for Jelly
cake. The dressing is-One cup thick,
sour cream, two cups white sugar, one
pound sweet almonds blanched and chop
ped fine; flavor with vanilla; mix and
spread between the layers.
Husk Mats.-A correspondent Of the
Agr5culttrfst says: Take an inch plank
of the size desired, and bore threequarter
inch holes through it, with their centres
.wo inches apart. Draw into these damp
encd corn -husks, and trim off about two
inches on each side. This mat can be
used either side up. 1t is easily made,
and every one can keep his boots clean,
much to the qualification of the house
Keeper
Milk as a Medicine.-An interesting
article recently appeared in the London
WiN Jou1na1, concerning the value of milk
as a remedial agent in certain diseases.
Several physicians Of high standing re
gard it as specific for diarrhea, dyscn-
terry, and incipient cholera The milk
should not be boiled, but heated sufficient
~ to be agrccably warm 1t is also rec
commended as of great value in typhoid
tevcrs-as cooling and nourishing, and as
promoting sleep.
-Rizcna Pudding.-A new food prepaI-
alton of rice has appeared, and the Amer5-
can AgrtculturiSt tells how to make a nice
pudding from it:-'Mix four large spoon
tuls OF rizcna with a pint of cold milk,
and stir it into quart Of boiling milk
until it iboils again; then remove, stir in
butter the size Of an egg, and a little salt
let it cool, and add four eggs, well beaten,
tWo-thirds Of a cup white sugar, grated
nutmeg, half wine glass of brandy, or
other tlayoring if prefcrred bake in a
buttered dish twenty minutes. TO be
eaten hot, with sauce" But we think a
plain rice pudding, made in similar
manner, IS not to be beaten.
To Relieve IMPROVING Nails.-A cor
respondent Of the BRITISH NedicL Jou1ua1
WTites:-About twenty years ago | applied
a bit OF compressed sponge to afford tenn
poraly relief, and was delighted to find
that it effected a radical cure. | made the
sponge as solid as leather, by voting and
then winding string very tightly round it
and drying in thoroughly. OF this | cut
small pyramidal piece, less than grain
of rice; this | insert beneath the nail, and
secure it by strips of adhesive plaster, ap-
piled longitudinally, to avoid compress
sion. Tie sponge soon becomes moist
and swollen, keeping the nail from the
Initiated flesh. Any examinations should
previously be DESTROYED with strong nitric
acid. | have adopted tlis plan upon
many occasions, and have never found it
fail.